Topic 1: What is Personality? -- Topic 2: Dominant Theories: Trait and Biological -- Topic 3: Dominant Theories: Social Learning and Self-Concept -- Topic 4: Dominant Theories: Psychodynamic and Motivation -- Topic 5: Testing and Measurement -- Topic 6: Personality Across the Lifespan -- Topic 7: Personality and Wellbeing, Health and Illness -- Topic 8: Personality Disorders and Therapeutic Approaches -- Topic 9: Personality and Cognition -- Topic 10: Personality in the Workplace -- Topic 11: Personality and Culture.
Personality Psychology: A Student-Centered Approach by Jim McMartin organizes the field of personality psychology around basic questions relevant to the reader’s past, present, and future selves.
This handbook discusses the development and measurement of personality as well as biological and social determinants, dynamic personality processes, the personality's relation to the self, and personality in relation to applied psychology.
Using a novel organizational framework, one that emphasizes domains of knowledge about human nature, this trusted text presents the field of contemporary personality psychology as a collection of interrelated topics and themes.
Hull's (1943) drive reduction theory has been criticised for assuming (incorrectly, as it turns out) that all behaviour in all species is as mindless (i.e., completely lacking in forethought and insight) as is the behaviour of ...
This second edition of The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology offers a one-stop resource for scientific personality psychology.
In the first volume of this new series, Sarah E. Hampson brings together a unique collection of critical reviews of key areas of personality psychology and integrative accounts of important work by internationally recognised experts in the ...
Personality Psychology: Foundations and Findings is an evidence-based text with integrated cultural references and excellent coverage of the key building blocks of the subject matter—namely, the “foundations”(traits, genetics, self ...
This handbook discusses the development and measurement of personality as well as biological and social determinants, dynamic personality processes, the personality's relation to the self, and personality in relation to applied psychology.
This indispensible sourcebook covers conceptual and practical issues in research design in the field of social and personality psychology.
This book presents personality from the perspective of existing research. It provides an overview of personality research and demonstrates the relationship between research and real individuals. Readers...