Personality: Classic Theories and Modern Research - Friedman, Howard; Schustack, Miriam
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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…mehr

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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 fifth edition brings the field of personality to today's diverse student body.

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Self-Understanding boxes give sample assessment techniques for students to try out.

Changing Personality boxes address the common important question, “Can personality be changed?”.

Famous Personalities boxes illustrate select concepts using well-known individuals.

Time Lines of developments in personality psychology help students understand the intellectual progression of ideas and the general scientific and societal contexts in which they develop.

Sharpen Your Thinking boxes raise current controversies to enthuse students about the implications of personality and to help them learn to apply personality psychology to important questions in society.

This book concludes with several chapters on practical applications to individual differences, including information that helps students understand the sources of hate and terror.

Extensive ties to online web content via MyPsychKit for Personality, 5e: www.mypsychkit.com

° Online practice quizzes

° Online flash cards for student studying

Part I Introduction

Chapter 1 What Is Personality?

Chapter 2 How Is Personality Studied and Assessed?

Part IIEight Basic Aspects of Personality

Chapter 3 Psychoanalytic Aspects of Personality

Chapter 4 Neo-Analytic and Ego Aspects of Personality: Identity

Chapter 5 Biological Aspects of Personality

Chapter 6 Behaviorist and Learning Aspects of Personality

Chapter 7 Cognitive and Social-Cognitive Aspects of Personality

Chapter 8 Humanistic, Existential, and Positive Aspects of Personality

Chapter 9 Person—Situation Interactionist Aspects of Personality

Part IIIApplications to Individual Differences

Chapter 10 Male—Female Differences

Chapter 11 Stress, Adjustment, and Health Differences

Chapter 12 Culture, Religion, and Ethnicity: Processes and Differences

Chapter 13 Love and Hate

Part IVConclusion and Outlook for the Future

Chapter 14 Where Will We Find Personality?
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Autorenporträt
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.