Personality and pseudoscience

Psychology is a sience with statistic methodes and emperical hypotheses. Personality is a active and reactive concept, dynamic. Because of that it is changing constantly. But there are some determinates, which are stable and can predict the behavoir of the person. Such determinates have to be seen in many people, so that one can say it could be a personality trait of the whole population.

Traits of a good theory
A sientific theory should be explicit and consistent. It also should be complete, which means the hypotheses of the theory should describe common phaenomena within the field of interest. Being easy to understand with as less key words as possible is helpful. With a good theory there are always new questions coming and opens up new research topics. Futhermore a theory should be usefull in a practical context.

If the sience is empirical (as psychology mostly should be) there are special critera for empirical questions: The theory should be directly or indirectly linked to the data of the observation. On top of that it should be possible to redo the experiment with the same conditions and to get the same results.

Implicit theorys
Implicit theorys are assumptions of non-senticts. They are helpful to generate new questions and can lead in the right direction. Also they are useful for everyday life, as we need easy psychological concepts to explain situations. But those theorys can be not good enough, as they have many lacks. For examples normaliy if someone finds an explanation for a topic, one sticks to that idea and does not think about alternative explanations. Especially in personality psychology ofter the behavoir in one situation is transfered to the character traits of the person. The leading concepts of implicit theorys are self-fullfilling prophecy: One thinks something will go that way and because they think that it will go like that. The obersations are random and not systematic. Futhermore the evaluation is not correct.