Why stop at two opinions? Reply to McCrae (2020)

Bleidorn, Wiebke; Hill, Patrick L.; Back, Mitja D.; Denissen, Jaap J. A.; Hennecke, Marie; Hopwood, Christopher J.; Jokela, Markus; Kandler, Christian; Lucas, Richard E.; Luhmann, Maike; Orth, Ulrich; Wagner, Jenny; Wrzus, Cornelia; Zimmermann, Johannes; Roberts, Brent (2020). Why stop at two opinions? Reply to McCrae (2020). American psychologist, 75(5), pp. 731-732. American Psychological Association 10.1037/amp0000676

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McCrae (2020) argues that it is premature to explore interventions focused on personality change. In his commentary, he suggests that interventions should only be promoted if their effects in self-report data are confirmed by the additional opinion of informants. We agree with the essence of his position and would go further by envisioning a new framework for rigorous collaborative research on personality change (Bleidorn et al., 2020). We nevertheless maintain that policy makers would benefit from considering the additional opinion of personality scientists.

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