Common Factors and Causal Networks
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The target article touches upon some of the most difficult and essential questions in personality psychology. Questioning the notion of a common factor as an as–yet–unobserved common cause of a behaviour domain's exemplars, the authors propose using graphical representations to inspire hypotheses of more complex causal structures. I do not find the case for the de–emphasis of the common factor model to be compelling for those behaviour domains (cognitive abilities) with which I am most familiar. It behoves all personality psychologists, however, to question the foundations of their favoured tools. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Vol 20
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pp. 140-140
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Vol 109
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pp. 502-511
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Vol 10
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pp. 175-192
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