Kagan J
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Dev Psychopathol. 1997 Spring;9(2):321-34. doi: 10.1017/s0954579497002071.
This paper examines critically four habits of social scientists: a reliance on constructs for processes that do not specify the class of agent or the context of action, skepticism toward empirical truths that are inconsistent with political or social goals, a reluctance to use profiles or characteristics that have different weights to classify persons, and an aversion to treating subjects with extreme values as representing special categories. These points are made in the context of the author's research on temperaments in children.
依赖那些未明确行动主体类别或行动背景的过程建构；对与政治或社会目标不一致的经验事实持怀疑态度；不愿使用权重不同的特征或特质来对人进行分类；以及不愿将具有极端值的研究对象视为代表特殊类别。这些观点是在作者关于儿童气质的研究背景下提出的。
