ABSTRACT
A personality is learned as a person interacts with other persons. More exactly, a person’s personality is his more or less systematic mode of response to himself, to others, and to his total environment in the light of what he believes them to be, and what they actually are. I have argued that to identify person and personality is to confuse the continuing agent (who is at work selectively expressing his needs and abilities in and through his personality), with this personality – which may not be all he would prefer. The more established the personality is, the more does the person find his future responses affected by the habits, sentiments, attitudes, traits, style(s) of life and self-concept that are ‘segments’ of his personality.
