Advances in Personality Science
1st Edition
Published on 14. March 2002
Book
Hardback
332 pages
978-1-57230-737-7 (ISBN)
Description
This definitive volume lays the foundations for an interdisciplinary science of personality. Leading investigators present novel insights and findings from molecular genetics, child and life-span developmental psychology, neuroscience, dynamical systems theory, evolutionary psychology, and social cognition, as well as personality psychology itself, illuminating - and often reformulating - fundamental questions about the nature of personhood. The book sheds new light on the nature and origins of personality and individual differences, and challenges many traditional assumptions. It also points toward compelling new directions for future work in the field.
Reviews / Votes
'Clearly summarizing the most recent, original research in personality, this volume will permit students as well as investigators to appreciate the areas of consensus as well as the sharp controversies in this vital domain of inquiry.' - Jerome Kagan, Department of Psychology, Harvard University'The study of individual differences is undergoing a similar revolution to the one that recently transformed cognitive psychology into cognitive neuroscience. New methods involving unconscious measures of learning, genetics, and brain imaging allow us to probe the developing mechanisms of personality at many levels. This remarkable volume allows the reader to share in the dramatic changes occurring in the study of personality, while not losing sight of the cultural and evolutionary contexts in which individuals develop.' - Michael I. Posner, PhD, Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill-Cornell University Medical College
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
592 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57230-737-7 (9781572307377)
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Content
Personality Science Cervone, Mischel Part I: Biological Bases of Individual Differences: Cortical Activity, Affect, and Motivation. In Search of the Genetic Engram of Personality Grigorenko. Individual Differences in Childhood Shyness: Origins, Malleability, and Developmental Course Schmidt, Fox. States, Traits, and Symptoms: Investigating the Neural Correlates of Emotion, Personality, and Psychopathology Heller, Schmidtke, Nitschke, Koven, Miller. Incentive and Threat Reactivity: Relations with Anterior Cortical Activity Sutton. Part II: Personality Development in its Social Context. Models of Development Lewis. Evolutionary and Developmental Perspectives on the Agentic Self Hawley, Little. Birth Cohort, Social Change, and Personality: The Interplay of Dysphoria and Individualism in the 20th Century Twenge. Looking Backward: Changes in the Mean Levels of Personality Traits from 80 to 12 Costa, McCrae. Part III: Personality as a Complex System: Social- Cognitive and Affective Dynamics. What Remains Invariant?: Finding Order within a Person's Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors across Situations Shoda, LeeTiernan. Integration and Compartmentalization: A Model of Self-Structure and Self-Change Showers. The Emergence of Personality: Personal Stability through Interpersonal Synchronization Nowak, Vallacher, Zochowski.