The idea of personality functioning should be critically examined, not reified: A reply to Zimmermann et al. (2025)
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In this brief commentary, I argue that personality researchers should not reify the concept of ''personality functioning'' (by continuing to define it and examine it in a fixed way) but should instead critically examine this concept (by questioning it conceptually and scrutinizing it empirically).
