Description
Stating that the many concentrated man-hours of study which the issue of motivated perception has inspired were generated by clinicians, personality theorists and social psychologists, Dr. Klein gives a terse developmental history of the perception-motivation approach to personality. He points out that perceptual theories, which had been protected by a tradition of psychophysical methodology, were, to a great extent, first attacked by the work of Murphy, Goldstein and Allport. The attack was further inspired by psychoanalytic principles, by the clinical diagnostic work with tests by Rapaport and Schafer, and by the work of Bartlett and Sherif in the area of social psychology.
