The psychology of personality: viewpoints, research, and applications

A TEXTBOOK WITH A PASSION FOR PERSONALITYThis engaging, comprehensive introduction to the field of personality psychology integrates discussion of personality theories, research, assessment techniques, and applications of specific theories. The Psychology of Personality: Viewpoints, Research and Applications introduces students to many important figures in the field, including Freud, Jung, Adler, Erikson, Catell, Allport, Horney, Maslow, Bandura, Michel, and others. The book not only covers classic issues and research in personality, but also looks at genetics and personality, neurological considerations in personality, the evolutionary perspective, the Big Five model of personality, and other contemporary issues.The second edition reflects significant changes in the field but retains much of the information and special features that made it a textbook from which instructors found easy to teach and students found easy to learn. Bernardo Carduccis passion for the study of personality and teaching its concepts to students is evident on every page. Special Features Balances theory, research, and the application of personality psychology Examines important dimensions of personality, such as self-concept, gender identity, gender differences, self monitoring, shyness, and anxiety Emphasizes how personality psychology relates to everyday life, and integrates examples that involve family,friends, work and leisure - as well as sociology, biology, criminology, medicine, the military and more Closer Look sections highlight people or topics of interest, including Mixing Athletics with Academics and The Write Stuff?: Eysencks Analysis of Handwriting Analysis’ Applications of Personality Psychology sections present extended examples of how personality psychology applies to a variety of areas in our everyday living experiences such as How Automobile Design and Advertising is Being Driven by Personality Psychology and Overcoming Test Anxiety.’ You Can Do It: Behaving Like a Personality Psychologist boxes give students the opportunity to complete a variety of exercises and projects designed to illustrate specific concepts such as Doing Risky Business: Will You Stick Your Neck Out to Get Ahead? New to this edition:Covers recent thematic and theoretical shifts in the study of personality such as emphasis on culturalaspects of personality and evolutionary psychology Includes new developments in research, especially physiological World-Wide Look at Why We Work and Cultural Diversity and the MMPI Validity Scale. At The Cutting Edge Of Personality Psychology features the most unique and up-to-date research and applications in the study of personality psychology such as Exploring Telehealth and the Gene-Brain-Personality Chain. New chapter on The Evolutionary Viewpoint: Personality as an Adaptive Process (Chapter 9) Reorganized format into thirteen chapters for a better fit for instructors and studentsi ‘Summing it up’ tables provide concise and informative summaries of significant concepts. ‘Mini-lectures’ added to the Instructor's Manual "

• ISBN: 978-1-4051-3635-8
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 736
• Fecha Publicación: 02/04/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés