New research proposes individualizing psychological assessment using the Five Factor Model of personality

A new paper published in the journal The Humanistic Psychologist articulates the clinical utility of individualizing psychological assessment by making use of the Enactivist Big-5 Theory of Personality, an approach that is grounded in the enactivist perspective of human cognition. The authors argue for a mutual synthesis of enactivist cognitive science and individualized psychological assessment. “Theoretically, I believe it can be very rewarding to see the ways in which theories in scientific psychology, like the Big Five, can become more humanized by dialoguing them with phenomenology,” said...