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| Preface | |
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| The Background: Persons, Human Nature, and Culture | |
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| Studying the Person | |
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| What Do We Know When We Know a Person? | |
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| Science and the Person | |
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| Personality Psychology | |
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| Summary | |
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| Evolution and Human Nature | |
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| On Human Nature: Our Evolutionary Heritage | |
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| Hurting, Helping, and Loving: Three Faces of Human Nature | |
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| Summary | |
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| Social Learning and Culture | |
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| Behaviorism and Social-Learning Theory | |
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| The Social Ecology of Human Behavior | |
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| Summary | |
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| Sketching the Outline: Dispositional Traits and the Prediction of Behavior | |
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| Personality Traits: Fundamental Concepts and Issues | |
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| The Idea of Trait | |
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| Measuring Traits | |
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| The Controversy Over Traits | |
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| Summary | |
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| Five Basic Traits | |
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| E: Extraversion | |
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| N: Neuroticism | |
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| O: Openness to Experience | |
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| C and A: Conscientiousness and Agreeableness | |
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| Summary 183 | |
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| Traits Across the Lifespan: Continuity and Change | |
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| The Continuity of Traits | |
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| The Origins of Traits: Genes and Environments | |
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| Change and Complexity | |
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| Summary | |
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| Filling in the Details: Characteristic Adaptations to Life Tasks | |
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| Motives and Goals: What Do We Want in Life? | |
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| The Psychoanalytic View | |
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| The Humanistic View | |
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| The Diversity View | |
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| Summary | |
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| Self and Other: Social-Cognitive Aspects of Personality | |
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| The Psychology of Personal Constructs | |
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| Cognitive Styles and Personality | |
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| Social-Cognitive Theory and the Person | |
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| Summary | |
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| Developmental Stages and Tasks | |
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| Martin Luther's Identity Crisis | |
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| Erik Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development | |
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| Jane Loevinger's Theory of Ego Development | |
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| Summary | |
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| Making a Life: The Stories We Live By | |
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| Life Scripts, Life Stories | |
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| The Meaning of Stories | |
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| Feeling and Story: Tomkins's Script Theory | |
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| Narrative Identity | |
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| Summary | |
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| Interpreting People's Stories: From Freud to Feminism | |
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| Freudian Interpretation | |
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| The Jungian Approach: Myth and Symbol | |
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| Adler: Beginning and Endings | |
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| Lives as Texts | |
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| Summary | |
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| Writing Stories of Lives: Biography and Life Course | |
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| Icarus: An Ancient Story | |
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| Personology and the Study of Lives | |
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| Biography, Narrative, and Lives | |
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| Summary | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Credits | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |