| Description |
1 online resource (1164 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Brief Contents -- Table of Contents -- About the Authors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Connect -- Personality Psychology -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Personality Psychology -- Personality Defined -- Personality Is the Set of Psychological Traits . . . -- And Mechanisms . . . -- Within the Individual . . . -- That Are Organized and Relatively Enduring . . . -- And That Influence . . . -- His or Her Interactions with . . . -- And Adaptations to . . . -- The Environment -- Three Levels of Personality Analysis -- Human Nature |
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Individual and Group Differences -- Individual Uniqueness -- A Fissure in the Field -- Grand Theories of Personality -- Contemporary Research in Personality -- Six Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature -- Dispositional Domain -- Biological Domain -- Intrapsychic Domain -- Cognitive-Experiential Domain -- Social and Cultural Domain -- Adjustment Domain -- The Role of Personality Theory -- Standards for Evaluating Personality Theories -- Is There a Grand Ultimate and True Theory of Personality? -- KEY TERMS -- Chapter 2 Personality Assessment, Measurement, and Research Design |
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What Is a Trait? Two Basic Formulations -- Traits as Internal Causal Properties -- Traits as Purely Descriptive Summaries -- The Act Frequency Formulation of Traits-An Illustration of the Descriptive Summary Formulation -- Act Frequency Research Program -- Evaluation of the Act Frequency Formulation -- Identification of the Most Important Traits -- Lexical Approach -- Statistical Approach -- Theoretical Approach -- Evaluating the Approaches for Identifying Important Traits -- Taxonomies of Personality -- EysenckÍs Hierarchical Model of Personality -- Circumplex Taxonomies of Personality |
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Five-Factor Model -- The HEXACO Model -- SUMMARY AND EVALUATION -- KEY TERMS -- Chapter 4 Theoretical and Measurement Issues in Trait Psychology -- Theoretical Issues -- Meaningful Differences Among Individuals -- Stability over Time -- Consistency Across Situations -- Person-Situation Interaction -- Aggregation -- Measurement Issues -- Carelessness -- Faking on Questionnaires -- Beware of Barnum Statements in Personality Test Interpretations -- Personality and Prediction -- Applications of Personality Testing in the Workplace -- Legal Issues in Personality Testing in Employment Settings |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Buss, David
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| ISBN |
9781260579550 |
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1260579557 |
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