 In the late 1960s and 70s, what became the situationist movement in psychology took center stage. An intense ‘person-situation debate’ ensued which called into question the existence of traditional personality traits and even the need for the discipline of personality psychology. Writers describing this era called it “traumatic” and “intense”, involving “warfare” and “heated but futile battles” (Mischel 2009: 283, 1999b: 39). By the 1980s, though, many psychologists parted ways with the situationist movement, and today very few would subscribe to the claims that were advanced at that time.