Personality What Makes You the Way You Are

Name: Personality What Makes You the Way You Are
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ISBN: 9780199211432

ISBN-10: 0199211434

ISBN-13: 9780199211432

Edition: 2009

Authors: Daniel Nettle, Sioned Davies

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Why are some people worriers, and others wanderers? Why do some people seem good at empathising, and others at controlling? We have something deep and consistent within us that determines the choices we make and the situations we bring about. But why should members of the same species differ so markedly in their natures? What is the best personality to have; a bold one or a shy one, an aggressive one or a meek one? And are you stuck with your personality, or can you change it? Daniel Nettle takes the reader on a tour through the science of human personality, introducing the five 'dimensions' on which every personality is based, and using an unusual combination of individual life stories and…

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List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/30/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.68" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Preface



Character Matters



The Beak of the Finch



Wanderers



Worriers



Controllers



Empathizers



Poets



The Other Half



Singing with Your Own Voice


Appendix: The Newcastle Personality Assessor


Notes


References


Index