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Theories of child development and personality formation have their roots in the shared beliefs of Western man—those tacit assumptions and simple explanations of human behavior that are as old as recorded history. The systematic attempt to build, and scientifically verify, sets of explanatory hypotheses is, however, less than a century old. The formulation of the principles of what Heider (1958) called naive psychology and their critical examination and elaboration have given rise to various schools of psychology. Even a cursory glance at the history of any science reveals that with the passage of time and long struggle, untidy hypotheses are replaced by more rigorously scientific ones, and initially vague concepts and definitions are sharpened and clarified. In psychology, scientific formulations and concepts are still in the developing stage, so that no single theory has managed to make the rival theories obsolete.
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Chess, S., Hassibi, M. (1986). Theories of Child Development. In: Principles and Practice of Child Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2145-3_3
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