Virtue, vice, and personality : the complexity of behavior
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Virtue, vice, and personality : the complexity of behavior
American Psychological Association, c2003
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This title offers researchers and students a resource that explores the rich diversity of personality as both a virtue and a vice. The editors argue that a more balanced perspective of personality may help prevent overly biased or unbalanced clinical or educational formulations and profiles and, in contrast, may help foster a genuine empathetic connection with clients and students. Researchers focus on some of the most notable personality variables including self-esteem, optimism, intelligence, personal control, rumination, perfectionism and neuroticism. The editors appeal for researchers and scholars to examine their assumptions about personality, which are rooted in philosophical notions of good and bad, and argue that a balanced view is essential for true understanding of human nature.
Table of Contents
- High Self-Esteem: A Differentiated Perspective - Michael H. Kernis
- Optimism as Virtue and Vice - Christopher Peterson and Robert S. Vaidya
- Intelligence: Can One Have Too Much of a Good Thing? - Robert S. Sternberg
- The Hazards of Goal Pursuit - Laura A. King and Chad M. Burton
- The Virtues and Vices of Personal Control - Michael A. Strube, J. Scott Hanson, and Laurel Newman
- Pessimism: Accentuating the Positive Possibilities - Julie Norem
- Rumination, Imagination, and Personality: Specters of the Past and Future in the Present - Lawrence J. Sanna, Shevaun L. Stocker, and Jennifer A. Clarke
- On the Perfectibility of the Individual: Going Beyond the Dialectic of Good Versus Evil - Edward C. Chang
- Neuroticism: Adaptive and Maladaptive Features - David Watson and Alex Casillas
- Going Beyond (While Remaining Connected to) Personality as Virtue and Vice - Howard Tennen and Glenn Affleck
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