psyche.co/ideas/its-time-to-ditch-the-empty-self-view-of-human-psychology How psychology’s classic studies misled us about the self
An essay argues that psychology's influential 'empty self' metaphor, which casts behaviour as driven by fleeting situational cues, has been weakened by the replication crisis. The authors contend that personality traits and an enduring self predict behaviour about as strongly as situations do.
