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Wednesday, April 29, 2026

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For Scientific Purposes, Treat People as If They Were Human Beings:
The Challenge of Studying Persons

By Daniel Cervone

Daniel Cervone, Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois Chicago, earned his PhD. at Stanford University, where his graduate advisor was Albert Bandura. He has had visiting faculty appoints at the University of Washington, Sapienza University of Rome, the University of Chichester, and Universitas Jenderal Achmad Yani (UNJANI), Indonesia, and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and a Senior Research Assistant at the United States Naval Academy. His service to the field includes his role as US-based Chairperson of the inaugural International Convention of Psychological Science, ICPS.

His primary research advances social-cognitive analysis of personality structure and dynamics, especially through his Knowledge and Appraisal Personality Architecture or KAPA model (Cervone, Psychological Review, 2004). In addition to empirical and theoretical journal articles on personality structure and processes, Dan has edited or author books including The Coherence of Personality (with Yuichi Shoda), Advances in Personality Science (with Walter Mischel) and Personality: Determinants, Dynamics, and Potentials (with Gian Vittorio Caprara). His primary presentation of the KAPA model and its implications for the study of personality coherence is The Architecture of Personality (in press/2027, Cambridge University Press). He also edited Albert Bandura’s posthumous (2023) publication, Social Cognitive Theory.