Personality Structure and Assessment

Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.

1977 • 31,678 citations

On the Theory of Scales of Measurement

1946 • 4,517 citations

Theoretical risks and tabular asterisks: Sir Karl, Sir Ronald, and the slow progress of soft psychology.

1978 • 1,859 citations

Bayesian statistical inference for psychological research.

1963 • 1,732 citations

Multivariate Analysis with Latent Variables: Causal Modeling

1980 • 1,560 citations

The stability of behavior: I. On predicting most of the people much of the time.

1979 • 1,433 citations

On predicting some of the people some of the time: The search for cross-situational consistencies in behavior.

1974 • 1,301 citations

Antecedent probability and the efficiency of psychometric signs, patterns, or cutting scores.

1955 • 1,234 citations

Situationism in psychology: An analysis and a critique.

1973 • 1,077 citations

Models of attitude–behavior relations.

1979 • 943 citations

Theory-Testing in Psychology and Physics: A Methodological Paradox

1967 • 935 citations

Prototypes in Person Perception

1979 • 880 citations

The stability of behavior: II. Implications for psychological research.

1980 • 710 citations

Causes and Conditions

1965 • 642 citations

A critique of cross-lagged correlation.

1980 • 640 citations

The Quantum Theory and Reality

1979 • 343 citations

Personality traits and the eye of the beholder: Crossing some traditional philosophical boundaries in the search for consistency in all of the people.

1980 • 330 citations

Enduring dispositions in adult males.

1980 • 224 citations

Toward the integration of classification theory and methods.

1981 • 175 citations

Specific Etiology and Other Forms of Strong Influence: Some Quantitative Meanings

1977 • 155 citations

Cognitive behavior modification: A step in the wrong direction?

1978 • 150 citations

The Retreat to Commitment

1984 • 149 citations

The unmeasured variables problem in path analysis.

1980 • 127 citations

A Perspective on Mind-Brain Research

1980 • 127 citations

Some limits to the integration of psychoanalytic and behavior therapy.

1980 • 103 citations

Behaviorism and the mind: A (limited) call for a return to introspection.

1979 • 103 citations

Investigation and its discontents: Some constraints on progress in psychological research.

1980 • 90 citations

Why did Van Gogh cut off his ear? The problem of alternative explanations in psychobiography.

1981 • 83 citations

The prototype as a construct in abnormal psychology: I. A method for deriving prototypes.

1981 • 83 citations

On the inconclusiveness of “crucial” cognitive tests of dissonance versus self-perception theories

1975 • 78 citations

Personality: Nomothetic or idiographic? A response to Kenrick and Stringfield.

1981 • 77 citations

More Stately Mansions-Psychology Extends Its Boundaries

1981 • 74 citations

Stability of adult personality traits: Fact or fable?

1976 • 64 citations

Mixed group validation: A method for determining the validity of diagnostic signs without using criterion groups.

1966 • 59 citations

A note on base rates and psychometric efficiency.

1962 • 58 citations

Fictions, factions, and functions of behavior therapy

1979 • 50 citations

Implicit personality theory: Is it illusory?¹

1979 • 45 citations

Recognizing individual differences in predictive structure.

1982 • 37 citations

Objective Diagnostic Tests and Measures

1974 • 36 citations

Constancy of Adult Personality Structure in Males: Longitudinal, Cross-sectional and Times-of-measurement Analyses

1980 • 36 citations

The Nature of causation

1976 • 33 citations

Logical learning theory: Propositions, corollaries, and research evidence.

1981 • 33 citations

Factors and fictions in person perception: A reply to lamiell, Foss, and Cavenee1

1980 • 32 citations

Test theory without true scores?

1979 • 32 citations

Illusory correlation and the MMPI controversy.

1977 • 31 citations

Linguistic factors in implicit personality theory.

1981 • 30 citations

Of rigor and relevance.

1981 • 28 citations

Optimum cutting scores to discriminate groups of unequal size and variance.

1966 • 26 citations

Can We Ascertain the Falsity of a Scientific Hypothesis?

1973 • 24 citations

A base-rate bootstrap.

1982 • 21 citations

On the Conceptual Disconfirmation of Theories

1981 • 21 citations

Testing a single dominant gene theory without an accepted criterion variable

1978 • 19 citations

Cognitive behavior modification or new ways to change minds: Reply to Mahoney and Kazdin.

1979 • 19 citations

Psychological explanations and their vicissitudes.

1975 • 15 citations

Illusory correlation and the MMPI controversy: Reply to some of the allusions and elusions in Block's and Edwards' commentaries.

1977 • 13 citations

On the utility of looking in the "wrong" direction1

1980 • 12 citations

How clinical probability judgment may be used to validate diagnostic signs

1967 • 11 citations

Use of the Golden-Meehl indicators in the detection of schizoid-taxon membership.

1982 • 9 citations

Rejoinder to Tucker's "Comments on 'Confounding of sources of variation in factor-analytic techniques.' "

1968 • 9 citations