44: The Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory of Personality

The Psychology Podcast

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🗓️ 21 May 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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An intellectual hero of the show, 91 year old Seymour Epstein is the creator of one of the most well-respected theories in personality psychology: the Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory of Personality (CEST). In this episode, we discuss how Epstein discovered his calling, what the field of psychology was like in the 1940s, his experience taking a class with Abraham Maslow, his interaction with Gordon Allport, and how he came to create his dual-process theory of personality. We also talk about implications of the theory as it relates to religion, politics and clinical psychology. It was a pleasure speaking with this giant in the field. Enjoy the show! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-psychology-podcast/support

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the psychology podcast with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman where we give
0:04.9	you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity. Each episode will feature a new
0:09.5	guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world
0:14.2	we live in.
0:15.2	Hopefully we'll also provide a glimpse into human possibility.
0:18.5	Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast. So today it is a great honor to have Seymour Epstein on the show.
0:41.0	Epstein is Professor Emeritus of psychology at the
0:44.0	University of Massachusetts Amherst. A noted authority on personality he has
0:48.3	received continuous research support from the National Institute of Mental
0:51.4	Health for over 40 years and has received their coveted merit award.
0:54.9	He's published extensively including the books You're Smarter Than You Think,
0:58.6	Constructive Thinking, The Key to Emotional Intelligence intelligence and most recently cognitive
1:03.3	experiential theory and integrative theory of personality.
1:06.6	Thanks Seymour for talking to me today.
1:08.3	I'm not sure.
1:10.3	Thanks for inviting me.
1:11.8	You're one of my intellectual heroes, I guess we could say.
1:17.0	And a lot of work I did in my dissertation was heavily influenced by your theory.
1:21.0	I thought we could start kind of the roots of this theory that you by your
1:25.0	theory theory,
1:26.0	interest in psychology in the first place.
1:28.6	When did your interest in psychology begin?
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