This successful text puts “personality” back into the personality course, integrating the classic insights of the personality theorists with modern research in a manner that will fascinate and encourage deeper thought. This text explores classic theory from a perspective that encourages critical thinking and fosters intellectual insight with respect to human nature. For example, it shows the relevance of classic theory to topics of personality and culture, evolution, ego, gender, and person-situation interactionism. Employing the highest scientific standards, Personality also uses a wide range of unique and provocative pedagogical devices that have been shown to motivate students. Hailed as the best-written, most relevant personality textbook on the market, Friedman and Schustack's fourth edition brings the field of personality to today's diverse student body.
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Part I Introduction Chapter 1    What Is Personality? Chapter 2    How Is Personality Studied and Assessed? Part II Eight Basic Aspects of Personality Chapter 3    Psychoanalytic Aspects of Personality Chapter 4    Neo-Analytic and Ego Aspects of Personality: Identity Chapter 5    Biological Aspects of Personality  Chapter 6    Behaviorist and Learning Aspects of Personality  Chapter 7    Cognitive and Social-Cognitive Aspects of Personality Chapter 8   Humanistic, Existential, and Positive Aspects of Personality Chapter 9  Person—Situation Interactionist Aspects of Personality  Part III Applications to Individual Differences Chapter 10 Male—Female Differences Chapter 11 Stress, Adjustment, and Health Differences Chapter 12 Culture, Religion, and Ethnicity: Processes and Differences  Chapter 13 Love and Hate  Part IV Conclusion and Outlook for the Future Chapter 14 Where Will We Find Personality? 
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Self-Understanding boxes give sample assessment techniques for students to try out.Changing Personality boxes address the common important question, “Can personality be changed?”.Famous Personalities boxes illustrate select concepts using well-known individuals.Time Lines of developments in personality psychology help students understand the intellectual progression of ideas and the general scientific and societal contexts in which they develop.Sharpen Your Thinking boxes raise current controversies to enthuse students about the implications of personality and to help them learn to apply personality psychology to important questions in society.This book concludes with several chapters on practical applications to individual differences, including information that helps students understand the sources of hate and terror.
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If you’re wondering why you should buy this new 5th edition of Personality: Classic Theories and Modern Research, here are some good reasons! The unique new feature boxes, CHANGING PERSONALITY, answer the question often asked by students, “How can I change my personality (or my boyfriend’s/girlfriend’s personality)? These new boxes answer in a way that helps students understand how different theories lead to different implications for individual and societal change.New and updated photos and illustrations throughout, to reach the contemporary student and clarify key concepts.New real-life examples throughout, to help students comprehend why a particular idea is intellectually important or relevant to society.Almost 200 new references have been included, most of them for recently published work. Discussion of this contemporary research provides students insight into some of the latest developments while still maintaining a focus on the classic theories.The much-admired attention to culture and ethnicity is now even stronger, with added coverage of the complex relationship among personality, ethnicity and religion, so important in today’s world.Updated information on biological aspects of personality is incorporated throughout the book, in a seamless fashion.New and expanded web features, including multimedia activities.Further tightening and polishing of the writing throughout, to keep this book as the leader in clear and appealing prose. CHANGES IN EACH CHAPTER Chapter 1 New and updated pictures and illustrations Polishing and improving the writing throughout Chapter 2 New material on the MMPI New and updated pictures and illustrations New references Polishing and improving the writing throughout Chapter 3 New box on Changing Personality New examples of psychoanalytic processes New and updated pictures and illustrations New references Chapter 4 New box on Changing Personality (re narcissism) New and updated pictures and illustrations Revised material on Karen Horney New material on maturity New references Chapter 5 New box on Changing Personality (re pedophilia) New and updated pictures and illustrations New material on twins New material on genes, depression and pain New material on brain influences New references Chapter 6 New material on conditioning New and updated pictures and illustrations New references Polishing and improving the writing throughout Chapter 7 New box on Changing Personality (re social-cognitive learning) New and updated pictures and illustrations New references Polishing and improving the writing throughout Chapter 8 New box on Changing Personality (re re-socialization) New material on personality and geography New material on trait interactions New material on conscientiousness and on later outcomes Polishing and improving the writing throughout New and updated pictures and illustrations New references Chapter 9 New box on Changing Personality (re self-actualization) Polishing and improving the writing throughout New Famous Personalities box New material on happiness New and updated pictures and illustrations New references Chapter 10 New box on Changing Personality (re lifestyles and trajectories) New examples of interactionist approaches New material on synergies New and updated pictures and illustratio
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781292022253
Publisert
2013-07-23
Utgave
5. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Pearson Education Limited
Vekt
1180 gr
Høyde
274 mm
Bredde
214 mm
Dybde
26 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
568

Biographical note

Howard S. Friedman is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, where he studies personality and health. Dr. Friedman was awarded UCR’s Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2000 he was named Outstanding Teacher by the Western Psychological Association (WPA). He is an elected Fellow of the Division of Personality and Social Psychology and the Division of Health Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He received the 2008 James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science (APS), which recognizes a lifetime of outstanding contributions to the area of applied psychological research. An honors graduate of Yale University, Dr. Friedman received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Miriam W. Schustack is Professor and Chair of Psychology at California State University in San Marcos (near San Diego), where she currently specializes in individual differences and the use of computers in learning. She previously taught at Harvard University and has served as a Fellow of the American Council on Education. An honors and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University, Dr. Schustack received her master’s from Yale and her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.