Personality and organizations: A test of the homogeneity of personality hypothesis.

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Abstract

During the early part of this century, a of American anthropologists, who were admittedly influenced by the psychodynamic psychology of Freud, began to concern themselves with the study of intercultural variation in personality (cf. DuBois, 1944; Kardiner, 1945). These anthropologists were not so much interested in the development of individual personality, as was true of their counterparts in psychology; rather, they were intrigued by the societal distribution of various personality characteristics. Fromm (1942) summarized their interest when he wrote, We are interested.., not in the peculiarities by which • . . persons differ from each other, but in that part of their character structure [personality] that is common to most members of the group (p. 277). These anthropologists believed that an understanding of shared personality