id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
ejop-162	Kőváry, Zoltán	Psychobiography as a method. The revival of studying lives: New perspectives in personality and creativity research	2011	39	.pdf	application/pdf	14718	799	45	However, in the second half of the last century the nomothetic approach – which studies and formulates the general or universal laws - became hegemonic within personality psychology and, as a consequence, psychoanalytic and personological traditions were relegated in the background, rendering psychobiography an „out of favor” method for decades (Barenbaum & Winter, 2003; Runyan, 1997). Dilthey, through his disciple Eduard Spranger strongly influenced Gordon Allport, the pioneer of idiographic approach in personality psychology, who worked as a postdoc scholar in Germany in 1923 with Spranger (Barenbaum & Winter, 2003).	cache/ejop-162.pdf	txt/ejop-162.txt