{"id":68124,"date":"2025-11-12T00:04:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/personology\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T00:04:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:04:34","slug":"personology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/personology\/","title":{"rendered":"Personology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a theory of personality developed by the American psychologist Henry Murray (see Murray, Henry Alexander in Chapter 5: Famous Scientists, Their Scientific Schools and Organizations in Psychological Science). The title reflects Murray&#8217;s interest in specific people (individuals) in all their complexity. The main ideas of the theory:<x id=\"gid_0\"><\/x>1) Study of motivation. Needs organize perception, thinking, and activity in such a way as to change the existing but unsatisfactory state.<x id=\"gid_1\"><\/x>2) Interaction of needs with environmental factors. Murray introduced the concept of &#8220;pressure&#8221; \u2013 a characteristic or property of an object, environment, or person that makes it easier or more difficult for an individual to achieve his goal.<x id=\"gid_2\"><\/x>3) Unification of needs in a unit of behavior \u2013 a &#8220;theme&#8221;. It treats the interaction between the current need and the driving pressure.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a theory of personality developed by the American psychologist Henry Murray (see Murray, Henry Alexander in Chapter 5: Famous Scientists, Their Scientific Schools and Organizations in Psychological Science). The title reflects Murray&#8217;s interest in specific people (individuals) in all their complexity. The main ideas of the theory:1) Study of motivation. Needs organize perception, thinking, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-personality-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}