Psychobiographies of social change agents: Introduction to the Special Issue

Adler, Jonathan M.; Singer, Jefferson A.

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“…Additionally, it is incumbent on Caribbean scholars to write their own psychobiographies as well. Adler and Singer (2023) in their recent co-edited, special issue in the Journal of Personality offer "counter narratives to the dominant discourse" of change agents, but failed to include any Caribbean-American, Caribbean, or Pan-Caribbean change agents to highlight.…”

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2023

AJSS

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ATINER is an Athens-based World Association of Academics and Researchers based in Athens. ATINER is an independent and non-profit Association with a Mission to become a forum where Academics and Researchers from all over the world can meet in Athens, exchange ideas on their research and discuss future developments in their disciplines, as well as engage with professionals from other fields. Athens was chosen because of its long history of academic gatherings, which go back thousands of years to Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum. Both these historic places are within walking distance from ATINER's downtown offices. Since antiquity, Athens was an open city. In the words of Pericles, Athens"…is open to the world, we never expel a foreigner from learning or seeing". ("Pericles' Funeral Oration", in Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War). It is ATINER's mission to revive the glory of Ancient Athens by inviting the World Academic Community to the city, to learn from each other in an environment of freedom and respect for other people's opinions and beliefs. After all, the free expression of one's opinion formed the basis for the development of democracy, and Athens was its cradle. As it turned out, the Golden Age of Athens was in fact, the Golden Age of the Western Civilization. Education and (Re)searching for the 'truth' are the pillars of any free (democratic) society. This is the reason why Education and Research are the two core words in ATINER's name.

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“…The strengths of psychobiography were also leveraged in a series of papers published in a recent Special Issue within the Journal of Personality (Adler & Singer, 2023) Mayukha et al, 2024). Thus, the use of an intersectional framework to examine how one person navigates various structural domains, can provide insight into how members of other groups may navigate related domains.…”

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“…The strengths of psychobiography were also leveraged in a series of papers published in a recent Special Issue within the Journal of Personality (Adler & Singer, 2023). These works represent useful examples of how to identify what structural identity domains are relevant to the person (or a particular sample) and how those domains may exert meaningful influence on one's experiences and identity.…”

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Integrating personality psychology and intersectionality to advance diversity in the study of persons

Westberg,

Syed

2024

Social & Personality Psych

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Consideration of how interrelated social structures relate with personality has been limited. In this paper, we discuss how researchers might apply an intersectional framework–which uses a social justice lens to examine how social structures are interconnected and impact individuals—at three distinct levels of personality including traits, characteristic adaptations, and integrative life narratives. We begin by providing conceptualizations of personality and intersectionality and describe considerations for their integration, including the need to widen the methodological and epistemological scope of personality science. Key areas of research that demonstrate the promise of an intersectional framework for unpacking structures of power and oppression in relation to the person are then described for each level of personality. Specifically, recommendations for how an intersectional framework may be used to examine structural identity domains in relation to trait levels, values and goals, as well as the content and process of narrated lives are offered. We conclude with discussion of how application of an intersectional framework is crucial for promoting inclusion and generalizability in personality science.

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“…As such, the logic of psychological research represents a Western epistemology that has subsidized racism by delegitimizing other ways of asking and answering questions about the human condition (Teo, 2022; Winston, 2020). Methods arising from Indigenous epistemologies such as intuition, spiritual enlightenment, critical consciousness, testimonials, and storytelling are derided as unscientific and too subjective (Adler & Singer, 2023). Thus, scientism and the scientific enterprise in Western society are based upon a worldview of empiricism in which the data collected is rank ordered in a hierarchy as to their degree of “psychological truth” (Ghaemi, 2010).…”

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Racism in counseling and psychotherapy: Illuminate and disarm.

Sue,

Neville,

Smith

2024

American Psychologist

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For the first time in its 130-year history, the American Psychological Association formally admitted to its ugly racist past and acknowledged how White supremacy continues to pervade the profession. Although the apology spans the entire field of psychology, the primary focus of this article is on how the profession of counseling and psychotherapy has reinforced and contributed to the oppression of people of color. First, we contend that psychology mirrors cultural racism/White supremacy and represents the major framework from which psychologists and other social scientists with power and privilege located the source of problems within people of color, their family values/structures, and their communities. Second, we maintain that the concept of professionalism has resulted in four legitimizing pillars of counseling and psychotherapy in which polarities are created that value universalism over relativism, individualism over collectivism, objectivism over subjectivism, and empiricism over experientialism. These four foundations of a White epistemology channel and subsidize racism by equating racial/cultural differences with pathology; promoting color and power blindness; blaming the victim; dehumanization and objectification; and denial of different racial realities. Last, we offer solutions for dismantling racism in counseling and psychotherapy.

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Psychobiographies of social change agents: Introduction to the Special Issue

Cited by 14 publications

References 30 publications

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Integrating personality psychology and intersectionality to advance diversity in the study of persons

Racism in counseling and psychotherapy: Illuminate and disarm.

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