Contents: Preface. Part I: Metatheory in Personality and Behavioral Research: Critiques of Theoretical Approaches to Behavioral Research.P. Holzman, J. Kagan, Whither or Wither Personality Research. D.T. Campbell, The Postpositivist, Nonfoundational, Hermeneutic Epistemology Exemplified in the Works of Donald W. Fiske. L.R. Goldberg, What the Hell Took So Long? Donald W. Fiske and the Big-Five Factor Structure. P.E. Meehl, Utiles, Hedons, and the Mind-Body Problem, or, Who's Afraid of Vilfredo? L. Fogg, The Validity of Scientific Quality. Part II: Measuring the Concepts of Personality: Analysis and Interpretation of Multitrait-Multimethod Matrices and Observer Consensus.P.E. Shrout, Measuring the Degree of Consensus in Personality Judgments. R.E. Millsap, The Statistical Analysis of Method Effects in Multitrait-Multimethod Data: A Review. D.A. Kenny, The Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix: Design, Analysis, and Conceptual Issues. W. Wothke, Covariance Components Analysis of the Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix. L.J. Cronbach, Giving Method Variance Its Due. Part III: Strategies for Personality Research: A Focus on Subjects' and Observers' Responses to the Measurement Process.L. Steinberg, D. Thissen, Item Response Theory in Personality Research. R.B. Kuncel, N.R. Kuncel, Response-Process Models: Toward an Integration of Cognitive-Processing Models, Psychometric Models, Latent-Trait Theory, and Self-Schemas. P.F. Secord, J.D. Greenwood, Self-Knowledge of Psychological States: The Status of Subjects' Accounts. S.T. Fiske, Words! Words! Words! Confronting the Problem in Observations. S. Duncan, Jr., Individual Differences in Face-to-Face Interaction. E. Klinger, Effects of Motivation and Emotion on Thought Flow and Cognition: Assessment and Findings. A.P. Fiske, The Cultural Dimensions of Psychological Research: Method Effects Imply Cultural Mediation. L. Luborsky, D.W. Fiske, Principles for Designing Studies of the Process and Efficacy of Psychotherapies. D.S. Butt, On the Measurement of Competence Motivation. P.A. Gaynor, J.K. Underwood, Conceptualizing and Measuring Sexual Self-Esteem. Part IV: Closing Remarks.D.W. Fiske, Reprise, New Themes, and Steps Forward.