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 IntroductionChapter 1 What Is Personality?Chapter 2 How Is Personality Studied and Assessed? Part IIEight Basic Aspects of PersonalityChapter 3 Psychoanalytic Aspects of PersonalityChapter 4 Neo-Analytic and Ego Aspects of Personality: IdentityChapter 5 Biological Aspects of Personality Chapter 6 Behaviorist and Learning Aspects of Personality Chapter 7 Cognitive and Social-Cognitive Aspects of PersonalityChapter 8 Trait Aspects of PersonalityChapter 9 Humanistic, Existential, and Positive Aspects of PersonalityChapter 10 Person-Situation Interactionist Aspects of Personality Part IIIApplications to Individual DifferencesChapter 11 Male-Female DifferencesChapter 12 Stress, Adjustment, and Health DifferencesChapter 13 Culture, Religion, and Ethnicity: Processes and Differences Chapter 14 Love and Hate Part IVConclusion and Outlook for the FutureChapter 15 Where Will We Find Personality?
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ISBN
9780205050178
Publisert
2011-01-25
Utgave
5. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Pearson
Vekt
1110 gr
Høyde
261 mm
Bredde
203 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
05, U
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
576

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.