The Effects of Personality on a Subject's Information Processing: A Reply.
本文是对Pratt评论的回复，指出其将认知风格从人格中分离的做法存疑，并强调任务、数据呈现方式与用户交互是未来研究重点。
Abstract The article presents reply of authors on comments by J. Pratt, in the paper titled "The Effects of Personality on a Subject's Information Processing: A Comment," published in the July 1980 issue of the journal "The Accounting Review." According to authors, the major contribution of Pratt's comment is to focus attention, yet again, on the need to understand better the effect of task, data presentation mode and users' interaction with sets of variables, which are useful areas for future research. Pratt has highlighted some interesting conjectures which merit further research. Authors of the present article points out that Pratt's initial concern is over the proper definition of personality, particularly with reference to the need to include or exclude cognitive style from that construct. While Pratt recognizes the existence of multiple theories of personality, he uncritically accepts the one most consistent with his goal of separating cognitive style research from personality. Authors of the present article add that this is a questionable practice. Even elementary psychology texts recognize psychology's failure to deal satisfactorily with this term.