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An Introduction | |
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What Is Personality Psychology? | |
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Defining Personality | |
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Theory in Personality Psychology | |
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Perspectives on Personality | |
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Organization within Chapters | |
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Methods in the Study of Personality | |
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Gathering Information | |
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Establishing Relationships among Variables | |
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Issues in Personality Assessment | |
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Sources of Information | |
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Reliability of Measurement | |
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Validity of Measurement | |
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Two Rationales behind the Development of Assessment Devices | |
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Better Assessment: A Never-Ending Search | |
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The Dispositional Perspective | |
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The Dispositional Perspective: Major Themes and Underlying Assumptions | |
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Types, Traits, and Interactionism | |
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Types and Traits | |
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What Traits Matter? | |
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The Five-Factor Model: The Basic Dimensions of Personality? | |
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Traits, Situations, and Interactionism | |
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Interactionism Extended: Context-Dependent Expression of Personality | |
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Trait Psychology: Problems and Prospects | |
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Needs and Motives | |
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Basic Theoretical Elements | |
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Needs, Motives, and Personality | |
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Individual Differences in Specific Needs | |
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Further Determinants of Behavior | |
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The Methods of Personology | |
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Need and Motive Theories: Problems and Prospects | |
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The Biological Perspective | |
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The Biological Perspective: Major Themes and Underlying Assumptions | |
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Inheritance, Evolution, and Personality | |
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Physique and Personality | |
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Determining the Role of Inheritance in Personality | |
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What Personality Qualities Are Inherited? | |
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Two Further Issues | |
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Evolution and Human Behavior | |
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Inheritance and Evolution: Problems and Prospects | |
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Biological Processes and Personality | |
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Eysenck: Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Brain Functions | |
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A Different View of Brain Functions: Approach and Inhibition | |
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Sensation Seeking: A Third Biological System? | |
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Hormones and Personality | |
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Biological Processes and Personality: Problems and Prospects | |
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The Psychoanalytic Perspective | |
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The Psychoanalytic Perspective: Major Themes and Underlying Assumptions | |
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Psychoanalytic Structure and Process | |
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The Topographical Model of Mind | |
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Aspects of Personality: The Structural Model | |
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Motivation: The Drives of Personality | |
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Psychosexual Development | |
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Psychoanalytic Structure and Process: Problems and Prospects | |
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Anxiety, Defense, and Self-Protection | |
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Anxiety | |
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Mechanisms of Defense | |
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The Psychopathology of Everyday Life | |
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Projective Techniques of Assessment | |
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Psychoanalytic Defense: Problems and Prospects | |
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The Neoanalytic Perspective | |
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The Neoanalytic Perspective: Major Themes and Underlying Assumptions | |
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Ego Psychology | |
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Principles of Ego Psychology | |
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Ego Development | |
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Ego Psychology: Problems and Prospects | |
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Psychosocial Theories | |
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Object Relations Theories | |
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Attachment Theory and Personality | |
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Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development | |
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Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change | |
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Psychosocial Theories: Problems and Prospects | |
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The Learning Perspective | |
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The Learning Perspective: Major Themes and Underlying Assumptions | |
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Conditioning Theories | |
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Classical Conditioning | |
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Instrumental Conditioning | |
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Conditioning Theories: Problems and Prospects | |
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Social-Cognitive Learning Theories | |
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Elaborations on Conditioning Processes | |
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Observational Learning | |
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Manifestations of Cognitive and Social Learning | |
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Social-Cognitive Learning Theories: Problems and Prospects | |
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The Phenomenological Perspective | |
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The Phenomenological Perspective: Major Themes and Underlying Assumptions | |
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Humanistic Psychology: Self-Actualization and Self-Determination | |
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Self-Actualization | |
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Self-Determination | |
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The Self and Processes of Defense | |
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Self-Actualization and Maslow's Hierarchy of Motives | |
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Existential Psychology | |
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Humanistic Theories: Problems and Prospects | |
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Personal Constructs | |
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Personal Constructs and Personality | |
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Personal Construct Theory: Problems and Prospects | |
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The Cognitive Self- Regulation Perspective | |
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The Cognitive Self-Regulation Perspective: Major Themes and Underlying Assumptions | |
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Contemporary Cognitive Views | |
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Representing Your Experience of the World | |
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Broader Statements on Cognition and Personality | |
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Contemporary Cognitive Theories: Problems and Prospects | |
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Self-Regulation | |
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From Cognition to Behavior | |
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Self-Regulation and Feedback Control | |
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Self-Regulation Theories: Problems and Prospects | |
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Personality In Perspective | |
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Overlap and Integration | |
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Similarities among Perspectives | |
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Recurrent Themes, Viewed from Different Angles | |
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Combining Perspectives | |
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References | |
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Name Index | |
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Subject Index | |