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The geographical article chosen for the purpose for this assessment is an essay by Bjorn Lomborg ‘Running on Empty’ retrieved
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The nomothetic versus ideographic approach is a persistent controversy in psychology. In this essay, the content of the debate will be closely examined and applied to the field of personality. The key characteristics of the nomothetic and ideographic approaches will be looked at, and applied to personality, with two personality theories associated with each approach respectively. Nomothetic originates from the Greek word 'nomos' meaning law giving or law like. The nomothetic approach focuses on investigating large groups of people in order to find general laws that apply to everyone. The idea is that such laws will allow researchers to make predictions about how the majority of people are likely to behave in a given circumstance. The nomothetic approach puts emphasis on the ways in which we are like others. According to this approach, the ways in which we differ are limited; we differ only in terms of age, gender and...
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