I read the paper and I did not find any mention to Gregory Bateson who  
proposed the cybernetic explanation of behavior in the sixties.
An extract from the work of Quirin and coll. 2020:  “Negative feedback  
control, then, is involved whenever one seeks to change a current  
state to a desired state. In negative feedback, the system attempts to  
reduce the discrepancy between these states, and detection of that  
discrepancy constitutes error.”
Compare with this extract from the work of Bateson (Bateson, G.  
(1967). Cybernetic explanation. American Behavioral Scientist, 10(8),  
29-29.): “The cybernetic method of negative explanation raises the  
question: is there a difference between “being right” and “not being  
wrong”? Shou!d we say of the rat in a maze that he has “learned the  
right path” or should we say only that he has learned “to avoid the  
wrong paths”?”

Again a case of “rediscovery” and “lack of history”….who said that  
researchers have to study more and write less?


Best Regards,
Marco Tommasi
Paul Barrett <[log in to unmask]> ha scritto:

> Just out .. probably one of the most significant/intelligent papers to be
> published this year .. great stuff.
>
>
>
> Quirin, M., Robinson, M.D., Rauthmann, J.F., Kuhl, J., Read, S.J., Tops, M.,
> & DeYoung, C.G. (2020). The dynamics of personality approach (DPA): 20
> tenets for uncovering the causal mechanisms of personality. European Journal
> of Personality (https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2295 ), In Press, , 1-22
> [open-access]
>
> Abstract
>
> Over the last few decades, most personality psychology research has been
> focused on assessing personality via scores on a few broad traits and
> investigating how these scores predict various behaviours and outcomes. This
> approach does not seek to explain the causal mechanisms underlying human
> personality and thus falls short of explaining the proximal sources of
> traits as well as the variation of individuals' behaviour over time and
> across situations. On the basis of the commonalities shared by influential
> process‐oriented personality theories and models, we describe a general
> dynamics of personality approach (DPA). The DPA relies heavily on
> theoretical principles applicable to complex adaptive systems that self‐
> regulate via feedback mechanisms, and it parses the sources of personality
> in terms of various psychological functions relevant in different phases of
> self‐regulation. Thus, we consider personality to be rooted in individual
> differences in various cognitive, emotional-motivational, and volitional
> functions, as well as their causal interactions. In this article, we lay out
> 20 tenets for the DPA that may serve as a guideline for integrative research
> in personality science.
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>
>
> Regards .. Paul
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