Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0345795

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0345795

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Distinguishing categories and dimensions: Taxometric investigations. This project aims to apply and refine promising new methods for classifying psychological variations. These "taxometric" methods detect categories and locate their boundaries, enabling improved taxonomies of personality and mental disorder. They will be used to examine whether personality disorders are discrete categories or fall on a continuum with normal personality, and whether people mentally represent social groups according to qualitatively distinct ontological assumptions. The statistical validity of these methods will be comprehensively assessed. The project should help to resolve enduring questions about psychological classification and deepen our understanding of social stereotyping.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2003

End Date: 31-12-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $98,500.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Psychological Methodology, Design And Analysis | Psychology | Health, Clinical And Counselling Psychology | Personality, Abilities And Assessment

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Mental health | Behaviour and health |

Other Keywords

Behaviour and health | Health, Clinical And Counselling Psychology | Mental health | Personality, Abilities And Assessment | Psychological Methodology, Design And Analysis | Psychology

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