Rethinking and Reclaiming the Interdisciplinary Role of Personality Psychology: The Science of Human Nature Should Be the Center of the Social Sciences and Humanities☆

Abstract For both intellectual and practical reasons, it behooves personality psychology to adopt a broad self-definition, which should include interdisciplinary activity. The broad, interdisciplinary status of personality psychology was an important cause of its prominence for several decades, but the field has not maintained this in recent years. We suggest that personality psychologists make an active effort to recapture a prominent interdisciplinary role and we propose specific steps toward accomplishing this.