The Personality Puzzle
6th Edition
Published on 2. November 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
864 pages
978-0-393-92079-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Personality Puzzle gets students excited about personality psychology, demonstrating that it is relevant to their lives and thus actually fun to explore. Over six editions, author David Funder has established himself as the master of the readable textbook, always conveying the motivations behind psychological inquiry while never skimping on the science.
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Edition
Sixth International Student Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Adult education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
1309 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-92079-6 (9780393920796)
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Person
David C. Funder is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and former chair of the department at the University of California, Riverside. Winner of the 2009 Jack Block Award for Distinguished Research in Personality, he is a former editor of the Journal of Research in Personality, and a past president of the Association for Research in Personality as well as the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. He is best known for his research on personality judgment and has also published research on delay of gratification, attribution theory, the longitudinal course of personality development, and the psychological assessment of situations. He has taught personality psychology to undergraduates at Harvey Mudd College, Harvard University, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and continues to teach the course every year at the University of California, Riverside.
Content
1. The Study Of The Person Part I Research Methods
2. Clues to Personality: The Basic Sources Of Data
3. Personality Psychology as Science: Research Methods
Part II How People Differ: The Trait Approach
4. Personality Traits, Situations, and Behavior
5. Personality Assessment I: Personality Testing and Its Consequences
6. Personality Assessment II: Personality Judgment in Daily Life
7. Using Personality Traits to Understand Behavior
Part III The Mind and the Body: Biological Approaches to Personality
8. The Anatomy and Physiology of Personality
9. The Inheritance of Personality: Behavioral Genetics and Evolutionary Theory
Part IV The Hidden World of the Mind: The Psychoanalytic Approach
10. Basics of Psychoanalysis
11. The Workings of the Unconscious Mind: Defenses and Slips
12. Psychoanalysis After Freud: Neo-Freudians, Object Relations, and Current Research
Part V Experience and Awareness: Humanistic and Cross-Cultural Psychology
13. Experience, Existence, and the Meaning of Life: Humanistic and Positive Psychology
14. Cultural Variation in Experience, Behavior, and Personality
Part VI What Personality Does: Learning, Thinking, Feeling, and Knowing
15. Learning to Be a Person: Behaviorism and Social Learning Theories
16. Personality Processes: Perception, Thought, Motivation, and Emotion
17. What You Know About You: The Self (New Chapter)
18. Disorders of Personality (New Chapter)
19. Conclusion: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
2. Clues to Personality: The Basic Sources Of Data
3. Personality Psychology as Science: Research Methods
Part II How People Differ: The Trait Approach
4. Personality Traits, Situations, and Behavior
5. Personality Assessment I: Personality Testing and Its Consequences
6. Personality Assessment II: Personality Judgment in Daily Life
7. Using Personality Traits to Understand Behavior
Part III The Mind and the Body: Biological Approaches to Personality
8. The Anatomy and Physiology of Personality
9. The Inheritance of Personality: Behavioral Genetics and Evolutionary Theory
Part IV The Hidden World of the Mind: The Psychoanalytic Approach
10. Basics of Psychoanalysis
11. The Workings of the Unconscious Mind: Defenses and Slips
12. Psychoanalysis After Freud: Neo-Freudians, Object Relations, and Current Research
Part V Experience and Awareness: Humanistic and Cross-Cultural Psychology
13. Experience, Existence, and the Meaning of Life: Humanistic and Positive Psychology
14. Cultural Variation in Experience, Behavior, and Personality
Part VI What Personality Does: Learning, Thinking, Feeling, and Knowing
15. Learning to Be a Person: Behaviorism and Social Learning Theories
16. Personality Processes: Perception, Thought, Motivation, and Emotion
17. What You Know About You: The Self (New Chapter)
18. Disorders of Personality (New Chapter)
19. Conclusion: Looking Back and Looking Ahead