Kennon M Sheldon

Optimal Human Being

An Integrated Multi-level Perspective

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Optimal Human Being addresses two questions: how can individuals best integrate the different facets of themselves to achieve "optimal human being", and how can researchers best integrate the different levels of analysis within the human sciences

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9780805841893
• ISBN-10: 080584189X
• Artikelnr.: 22199969

Autorenporträt

Kennon M. Sheldon

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Part I: Introduction. What Is Optimal Human Being? Hierarchies
and Levels of Analysis: Locating Behavior in the Physical World and Seeking
Integration Between the Human Sciences. Focusing on the Personality Level:
Comprehensive Models of Personality. Part II: Four Levels of Analysis
Within Personality Theory. The Universal Human Organism: Species-Typical
Human Nature. Personality Traits and Individual Differences: The Meaning of
Variability. Goals and Intentions: The Method of Self-Organization. The
Self-Homunculus: Fictional but Functional. Part III: Two Higher Levels of
Analysis Relevant to Personality Theory. Social and Group Interaction: Game
and Role Theory Perspectives. The Emergence of Culture: Memes, Genes, and
Other Themes. Part IV: Towards Integration. Optimal Human Being and Optimal
Human Science: Summary Prescriptions.