Talk:Personality and Individual Differences

Merger

I oppose merging this article with International Society for the Study of Individual Differences. As a journal, it is a separate independent entry, and journals have (or should have) their own web pages on Wikipedia.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcbutler (talk • contribs) 19:02, 10 March 2008

I support if they can't be expanded much beyond current length. This is probably not the case though... we need to establish notability and sources first I think. Richard001 (talk) 03:14, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Bizarre racism

I'm not sure how to do write this in wikipedia style, but this journal includes some wildly racist articles which have frequently been attacked and discredited, including lurid and bizarre meditations on "theory that Mongoloids are the most K evolved, Caucasoids somewhat less K evolved, and Negroids the least K evolved is examined and extended in an analysis of data for erect penis length". Reading this article, I have no sense of the race science background of this journal and its editors, nor does the listing of its paper citing metrics give me any idea about how it is dealt with in the broader academic environment. Infocidal (talk) 19:55, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

This journal is the most cited source for this theory's article: Differential K theory. From what I have seen, few reliable sources have bothered to even give this theory the time of day, but there are some good sources explaining its many flaws. (If anyone knows of any more, please let me know or post on that article's talk page.) I would like to find reliable sources about this specific issue also. To give another, related example, this journal published a paper by Richard Lynn supporting J. Philiipe Rushton's infamous and discredited theories on race and penis size in 2013, long after it had been debunked, and mocked, by countless better qualified academics for years.[1][2][3][4][5][6][etc.]

We would need a reliable, independent source to include this in the article, however. Grayfell (talk) 04:34, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

Removed section describing associations of journal with the pioneer fund

Hello, my recent edit was reverted by User:Viewmont_Viking with the reason given as "does not add" https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Personality_and_Individual_Differences&diff=prev&oldid=1016675338. I wonder if I could have some clarity on this editorial decision? Thanks. RichieRichieD (talk) 13:57, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

You would need to have a reference that specifically mentions their Association with the Pioneer Fund and that it is relevant that they have an association. Showing that individuals have both an association with pioneer fund and this journal and creating an entire section on the Associate with the Pioneer Fund is considered original research and Synthesis of published material. Thank you for bringing this to the talk page.--VViking_TalkEdits 14:04, 8 April 2021 (UTC)