| Description |
xxi, 598 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. I The Background: Persons, Human Nature, and Culture -- Ch. 1 Studying the Person -- Ch. 2 Evolution and Human Nature -- Ch. 3 Social Learning and Culture -- Pt. II Sketching the Outline: Dispositional Traits and the Prediction of Behavior -- Ch. 4 Personality Traits: Fundamental Concepts and Issues -- Ch. 5 Five Basic Traits - In the Brain and in Behavior -- Ch. 6 Continuity and Change in Traits: The Roles of Genes, Environments, and Time -- Pt. III Filling in the Details: Characteristic Adaptations to Life Tasks -- Ch. 7 Motives and Goals: What Do We Want in Life? -- Ch. 8 Self and Other: Social-Cognitive Aspects of Personality -- Ch. 9 Developmental Stages and Tasks -- Pt. IV Making a Life: The Stories We Live By -- Ch. 10 Life Scripts, Life Stories -- Ch. 11 The Interpretation of Stories: From Freud to Today -- Ch. 12 Writing Stories of Lives: Biography and Life Course |
| Summary |
'The Person' provides psychologists with an organizational scheme for personality psychology. This sets the study of the person into evolutionary and cultural context, dividing personality up into three broad areas: dispositional traits, characteristic adaptations, and integrative life stories |
| Analysis |
Personality |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: The person, a new introduction to personality psychology |
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Title varies from edition to edition |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Personality.
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| ISBN |
0470129131 (hbk.) |
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9780470129135 (hbk.) |
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