The Personality Reader
2nd Edition
Published on 20. February 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-205-48551-2 (ISBN)
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This reader is useful as a supplement to a personality textbook or as a stand-alone course book. Students hear the voices of important theorists in their own words with introductions providing context and critical thinking questions to improve understanding.
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Howard S. Friedman | Miriam W. Schustack
Readings in Personality
Classic Theories and Modern Research
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Content
Preface
UNIT ONE: PSYCHOANALYTIC ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY
FREUD: The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis - NEW!
WOLPE and RACHMAN: Psychoanalytic "Evidence": A Critique Based on Freud's Case of Little Hans
FREUD: The Interpretation of Dreams
MASSON: The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory
MURRAY: What Should Psychologists Do About Psychoanalysis - NEW!
UNIT TWO: NEO-ANALYTIC AND EGO ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY: IDENTITY
JUNG: The Conception of the Unconscious
ADLER: The Neurotic Constitution: The Origin and Development of the Feeling of Inferiority
HORNEY: The Goals of Analytic Therapy
ERIKSON: The Life Cycle: Epigenesis of Identity
SWANN: THE Trouble with Change: Self-verification and Allegiance to the Self - NEW!
MITCHELL: Recent Developments in Psychoanalytic Theorizing - NEW!
UNIT THREE: BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY
GALTON: Measurement of Character - NEW!
TERMAN: The Intelligence Quotient of Francis Galton in Childhood - NEW!
EYSENCK: Dimensions of Personality: The Biosocial Approach to Personality
PEELE AND DEGRANDPRE: My Genes Made Me Do It!
DALY AND WILSON: Violence against Stepchildren
BUSS, LARSEN, WESTEN, AND SEMMELROTH: Sex Differences in Jealousy: Evolution, Physiology, and Psychology
GOULD: Exaptation: A Crucial Tool for an Evolutionary Psychology
PLOMIN and NEIDERHISER: Genetics and Experience - NEW!
CASPI: The Child is Father of the Man: Personality Continuities from Childhood to Adulthood - NEW!
UNIT FOUR: BEHAVIORIST AND LEARNING ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY
WATSON and RAYNER: Conditioned Emotional Reactions
SKINNER: Intellectual Self-Management in Old Age
ROGERS and SKINNER: Some Issues Concerning the Control of Human Behavior: A Symposium - NEW!
MILLER and DOLLARD: Learning: Its Conditions and Principles - NEW!
UNIT FIVE: COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY
KELLY: Personal Construct Theory and the Psychotherapeutic Interview
ROTTER: External Control and Internal Control
BANDURA: Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory
BANDURA: Exercise of Human Agency through Collective Efficacy - NEW!
PETERSON, SELIGMAN, YURKO, MARTIN, and FRIEDMAN: Catastrophizing and Untimely Death
UNIT SIX: TRAIT AND SKILL ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY
ALLPORT: Traits Revisited
MCCRAE and COSTA: Validation of the Five-Factor Model of Personality across Instruments and Observers
CATELL: Personality Pinned Down
GOSLING and JOHN: Personality Dimensions in Nonhuman Animals: A Cross-Species Review
UNIT SEVEN: HUMANISTIC AND EXISTENTIAL ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY
ROGERS: What Understanding and Acceptance Mean to Me
FROMM: Love and Its Disintegration in Contemporary Western Society
MASLOW: Self-Actualization and Beyond - NEW!
MAY: Existential Bases of Psychotherapy
FRANKL: The Will to Meaning - NEW!
ABE: The Self in Jung and Zen - NEW!
MYERS: Hope and Happiness - NEW!
UNIT EIGHT: PERSON-SITUATION INTERACTIONIST ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY
SULLIVAN: A Note on Formulating the Relationship of the Individual and the Group
MEAD: The Social Self - NEW!
MISCHEL: Convergences and Challenges in the Search for Consistency
FUNDER: Global Traits: A Neo-Allportian Approach to Personality
UNIT NINE: APPLICATIONS TO INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
COSTA, TERRACIANO, and McCRAE: Gender Differences in Personality Traits across Cultures: Robust and Surprising Findings - NEW!
FRIEDMAN, TUCKER, SCHWARTZ, TOMLINSON-KEASEY, MARTIN, WINGARD, and CRIQUI: Psychosocial and Behavioral Predictors of Longevity: The Aging and Death of the "Termites"
STAUB: The Roots of Evil: Social Conditions, Culture, Personality, and Basic Human Needs
TWENGE: Birth Cohort Changes in Extraversion: A Cross Temporal Meta-Analysis, 1966-1993 - NEW!
HARITATOS and BENET-MARTINEZ: Bicultural Identities: The Interface of Cultural, Personality, and Socio-Cognitive Processes - NEW!
INDEX
UNIT ONE: PSYCHOANALYTIC ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY
FREUD: The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis - NEW!
WOLPE and RACHMAN: Psychoanalytic "Evidence": A Critique Based on Freud's Case of Little Hans
FREUD: The Interpretation of Dreams
MASSON: The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory
MURRAY: What Should Psychologists Do About Psychoanalysis - NEW!
UNIT TWO: NEO-ANALYTIC AND EGO ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY: IDENTITY
JUNG: The Conception of the Unconscious
ADLER: The Neurotic Constitution: The Origin and Development of the Feeling of Inferiority
HORNEY: The Goals of Analytic Therapy
ERIKSON: The Life Cycle: Epigenesis of Identity
SWANN: THE Trouble with Change: Self-verification and Allegiance to the Self - NEW!
MITCHELL: Recent Developments in Psychoanalytic Theorizing - NEW!
UNIT THREE: BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY
GALTON: Measurement of Character - NEW!
TERMAN: The Intelligence Quotient of Francis Galton in Childhood - NEW!
EYSENCK: Dimensions of Personality: The Biosocial Approach to Personality
PEELE AND DEGRANDPRE: My Genes Made Me Do It!
DALY AND WILSON: Violence against Stepchildren
BUSS, LARSEN, WESTEN, AND SEMMELROTH: Sex Differences in Jealousy: Evolution, Physiology, and Psychology
GOULD: Exaptation: A Crucial Tool for an Evolutionary Psychology
PLOMIN and NEIDERHISER: Genetics and Experience - NEW!
CASPI: The Child is Father of the Man: Personality Continuities from Childhood to Adulthood - NEW!
UNIT FOUR: BEHAVIORIST AND LEARNING ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY
WATSON and RAYNER: Conditioned Emotional Reactions
SKINNER: Intellectual Self-Management in Old Age
ROGERS and SKINNER: Some Issues Concerning the Control of Human Behavior: A Symposium - NEW!
MILLER and DOLLARD: Learning: Its Conditions and Principles - NEW!
UNIT FIVE: COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY
KELLY: Personal Construct Theory and the Psychotherapeutic Interview
ROTTER: External Control and Internal Control
BANDURA: Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory
BANDURA: Exercise of Human Agency through Collective Efficacy - NEW!
PETERSON, SELIGMAN, YURKO, MARTIN, and FRIEDMAN: Catastrophizing and Untimely Death
UNIT SIX: TRAIT AND SKILL ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY
ALLPORT: Traits Revisited
MCCRAE and COSTA: Validation of the Five-Factor Model of Personality across Instruments and Observers
CATELL: Personality Pinned Down
GOSLING and JOHN: Personality Dimensions in Nonhuman Animals: A Cross-Species Review
UNIT SEVEN: HUMANISTIC AND EXISTENTIAL ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY
ROGERS: What Understanding and Acceptance Mean to Me
FROMM: Love and Its Disintegration in Contemporary Western Society
MASLOW: Self-Actualization and Beyond - NEW!
MAY: Existential Bases of Psychotherapy
FRANKL: The Will to Meaning - NEW!
ABE: The Self in Jung and Zen - NEW!
MYERS: Hope and Happiness - NEW!
UNIT EIGHT: PERSON-SITUATION INTERACTIONIST ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY
SULLIVAN: A Note on Formulating the Relationship of the Individual and the Group
MEAD: The Social Self - NEW!
MISCHEL: Convergences and Challenges in the Search for Consistency
FUNDER: Global Traits: A Neo-Allportian Approach to Personality
UNIT NINE: APPLICATIONS TO INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
COSTA, TERRACIANO, and McCRAE: Gender Differences in Personality Traits across Cultures: Robust and Surprising Findings - NEW!
FRIEDMAN, TUCKER, SCHWARTZ, TOMLINSON-KEASEY, MARTIN, WINGARD, and CRIQUI: Psychosocial and Behavioral Predictors of Longevity: The Aging and Death of the "Termites"
STAUB: The Roots of Evil: Social Conditions, Culture, Personality, and Basic Human Needs
TWENGE: Birth Cohort Changes in Extraversion: A Cross Temporal Meta-Analysis, 1966-1993 - NEW!
HARITATOS and BENET-MARTINEZ: Bicultural Identities: The Interface of Cultural, Personality, and Socio-Cognitive Processes - NEW!
INDEX