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Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing change.

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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.

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No corner of the world is free from group scorn.

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It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.

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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?

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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.

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Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals.

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Dogmatism makes for scientific anemia.

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The primary problem in the psychology of becoming is to account for the transformation by which the unsocialized infant becomes an adult with structured loves, hates, loyalties, and interests, capable of taking his place in a complexly ordered society.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: November 11th, 1897

Died: October 9th, 1967

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