The person : a new introduction to personality psychology
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The person : a new introduction to personality psychology
John Wiley & Sons, c2006
4th ed
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 533-578) and index
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Description
Experience the story of a lifetime. When you want to truly get to know a person, dates and facts about their life will only tell you so much. You need to look at the stories that define that person's life, as well as their individual traits and characteristics, as defined by human nature and culture. When it comes to studying personality, the larger story matters most of all. In "The Person: An Integrated Introduction to Personality Psychology, Fourth Edition", Dan McAdams presents a bold and integrative vision for personality psychology that puts many different ideas into a meaningful structure. With this text, you can understand the larger story, and discover how powerful and useful studying personality psychology is today. The text begins with fundamental evolutionary, social, and cultural contexts for understanding personality, followed by an examination of the three different levels of an individual's personality: Dispositional traits, a person's general tendencies; Characteristic adaptations, a person's desires, beliefs, concerns, and coping mechanisms; and, Life stories, the stories that give a life a sense of unity, meaning, and purpose.
Key features include: new streamlined paperback format; updated with recent research findings to engage professors and students alike; a clear unifying vision for the field of personality psychology; the best from traditional personality theories and contemporary research; and the most important questions that people can ask about their own lives and about human life in general are addressed.
Table of Contents
Part I: The Background: Persons, Human Nature, and Culture Chapter 1: Studying the Person Chapter 2: Evolution and Nature Chapter 3: Social Learning and Nature Part II: Sketching the Outline: Dispositional Traits and the Prediction of Behavior Chapter 4: Personality Traits: Fundamental Concepts and Issues Chapter 5: Five Basic Traits Chapter 6: Traits Across the Lifespan: Continity and Change Part III: Filling in the Details: Characteristc Adaptations to Life Tasks Chapter 7: Motives and Goals: What Do We Want in Life? Chapter 8: Self and Others: Social - Cognitive Aspects of Personality Chapter 9: Developmental Stages and Tasks Part IV: Making a Life: The Stories We Live By Chapter 10: Life Scripts, Life Stories Chapter 11: Interpreting People's Stories: From Freud to Feminism Chapter 12: Writing Stories of Lives: Biography and the Life Course Summary Glossary References
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