The Person: An Introduction to the Science of Personality Psychology, 5th Edition
ISBN: 9780470129135 | 0470129131
Edition: 5thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: WILEY
Pub. Date: 12/1/2008
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The Person provides psychologists with an organizational scheme for personality psychology. This sets the study of the person into evolutionary and cultural context and divided personality up into three broad areas: dispositional traits, characteristic adaptations, and integrative life stories. The fifth edition has been updated to reflect advances that have occurred in the field of psychology in the past few years. It presents new findings that have been obtained with respect to the correlates of personality traits, the dynamics of motives and... MORE
| The Background: Persons, Human Nature, and Culture | |
| Studying the Person | |
| Evolution and Human Nature | |
| Social Learning and Culture | |
| Sketching the Outline: Dispositional Traits and the Prediction of Behavior | |
| Personality Traits: Fundamental Concepts and Issues | |
| Five Basic Traits - In the Brain and in Behavior | |
| Continuity and Change in Traits: The Role of Genes,... MORE | |
| Filling in the Details: Characteristic Adaptations to Life Tasks | |
| Motives and Goals: What Do We Want in Life? | |
| Self and Other: Social-Cognitive Aspects of Personality | |
| Developmental Stages and Tasks | |
| Making a Life: The Stories We Live By | |
| Life Scripts, Life Stories | |
| The Interpretation of Stories: From Freud to Today | |
| Writing Stories of Lives: Biography and Life Course | |
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