ABSTRACT
Herman Witkin considered his focus on individuality in human behavior and experience—as expressed through the concept of cognitive style—relevant not only for general psychological theory, but also for developmental conceptualization. Specifically, Witkin (1978) felt that his collected body of work strongly underscored Werner's (1957) emphasis that "developmental conceptualization, in order to reaffirm its truly organismic character, has to expand its orbit of interest to include as an actual problem the study of individuality" (p. 146).
