Distinguishing categories and dimensions: Taxometric investigations

区分类别和维度：分类调查

• 批准号: DP0345795
• 负责人: Prof Nicholas Haslam
• 金额: $ 6.8万
• 依托单位: The University of Melbourne
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2003-01-01 至 2007-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0345795
• 关键词: Distinguishing; categories; dimensions; Taxometric; investigations

This project aims to apply and refine promising new methods for classifying psychological variations. These "taxometric" methods detect categories and locate their boundaries, enabling improved taxonomies of personality and mental disorder. They will be used to examine whether personality disorders are discrete categories or fall on a continuum with normal personality, and whether people mentally represent social groups according to qualitatively distinct ontological assumptions. The statistical validity of these methods will be comprehensively assessed. The project should help to resolve enduring questions about psychological classification and deepen our understanding of social stereotyping.

该项目旨在应用和完善有前途的分类心理变化的新方法。这些“分类”方法检测类别并确定其边界，从而改进了人格和精神障碍的分类。他们将被用来检验人格障碍是独立的类别还是属于正常人格的连续体，以及人们是否根据不同的质变本体论假设在心理上代表社会群体。这些方法的统计有效性将被全面评估。该项目将有助于解决关于心理分类的长期问题，并加深我们对社会刻板印象的理解。