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they’re relatively stable across a
lifespan. Those who take this view
stand on broad shoulders: Hippocrates,
Milton, Schopenhauer, Jung, and more
recently the prophets of fMRI machines
and skin conductance tests.
On the other side of the debate are a
group of psychologists known as the
Situationists. Situationism posits that
our generalizations about people, including
the words we use to describe
one another—shy, aggressive, conscientious,
agreeable—are misleading. There
is no core self; there are only the various
selves of Situations X, Y, and Z. The
Situationist view rose to prominence in
1968 when the psychologist Walter
Mischel published Personality and
Assessment, challenging the idea of
fixed personality traits. Mischel argued
that situational factors predict the
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