Person An Introduction to the Science of Personality Psychology

Name: Person An Introduction to the Science of Personality Psychology
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ISBN: 9780470129135

ISBN-10: 0470129131

ISBN-13: 9780470129135

Edition: 5th 2009

Authors: Dan P. McAdams

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The Person provides psychologists with an organizational scheme for personality psychology. This sets the study of the person into evolutionary and cultural context and divided personality up into three broad areas: dispositional traits, characteristic adaptations, and integrative life stories. The fifth edition has been updated to reflect advances that have occurred in the field of psychology in the past few years. It presents new findings that have been obtained with respect to the correlates of personality traits, the dynamics of motives and goals in human lives, and the meanings and manifestations of life stories. Discussions are included on the new ideas on evolution and morality as…

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List price: $188.95
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/22/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 624
Size: 7.90" wide x 9.90" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 2.398
Language: English




The Background: Persons, Human Nature, and Culture



Studying the Person



Evolution and Human Nature



Social Learning and Culture



Sketching the Outline: Dispositional Traits and the Prediction of Behavior



Personality Traits: Fundamental Concepts and Issues



Five Basic Traits - In the Brain and in Behavior



Continuity and Change in Traits: The Role of Genes, Environments, and Time



Filling in the Details: Characteristic Adaptations to Life Tasks



Motives and Goals: What Do We Want in Life?



Self and Other: Social-Cognitive Aspects of Personality



Developmental Stages and Tasks



Making a Life: The Stories We Live By



Life Scripts, Life Stories



The Interpretation of Stories: From Freud to Today



Writing Stories of Lives: Biography and Life Course