Making Sense of People
Detecting and Understanding Personality Differences
2nd Edition
Published on 15. October 2015
240 pages
978-0-13-421438-2 (ISBN)
Description
A NEW, MORE PRACTICAL EDITION OF THE POPULAR SCIENTIFIC GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING OTHER PEOPLE
What really bothers you about your boss-or your daughter's boyfriend? Why are you so attracted to the person you're dating? Can you rely on your intuition about people? This book will help you find out.
Drawing on extensive research, renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist Samuel Barondes gives you powerful tools for understanding what people are really like and how they got that way.
Now improved with easy, step-by-step "practical summaries," these tools will help you quickly assess anyone's tendencies, patterns, character, and sense of identity. You'll learn how to combine these into a unified picture of who that person is. With these insights, you can choose more satisfying relationships, recognize telltale signs of dysfunction and danger, and savor the complexity and uniqueness of everyone you meet.
A quick, easy system for understanding anyone!
Supplement your intuition
Identify character strengths and weaknesses
Make better decisions about whom to seek out and whom to avoid
Find out how all personalities are shaped by two great chance events: the set of genes we happen to be born with, and the world we happen to grow up in
What really bothers you about your boss-or your daughter's boyfriend? Why are you so attracted to the person you're dating? Can you rely on your intuition about people? This book will help you find out.
Drawing on extensive research, renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist Samuel Barondes gives you powerful tools for understanding what people are really like and how they got that way.
Now improved with easy, step-by-step "practical summaries," these tools will help you quickly assess anyone's tendencies, patterns, character, and sense of identity. You'll learn how to combine these into a unified picture of who that person is. With these insights, you can choose more satisfying relationships, recognize telltale signs of dysfunction and danger, and savor the complexity and uniqueness of everyone you meet.
A quick, easy system for understanding anyone!
Supplement your intuition
Identify character strengths and weaknesses
Make better decisions about whom to seek out and whom to avoid
Find out how all personalities are shaped by two great chance events: the set of genes we happen to be born with, and the world we happen to grow up in
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
NJ
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-0-13-421438-2 (9780134214382)
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Person
Samuel Barondes is the Jeanne and Sanford Robertson Professor and Director of the Center for Neurobiology and Psychiatry at the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco. He was trained in psychiatry and neuroscience at Columbia, Harvard, and the National Institutes of Health and has been at the University of California since 1970. He is the author of more than 200 research articles and has held many administrative and advisory positions, including Director of UCSF's Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, President of the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience, and Chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Institute of Mental Health. He has received many honors, including membership in the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition to his research publications, Barondes has written three books about psychiatry for a general audience as well as a children's poetry book: Before I Sleep: Poems for Children Who Think. He lives in Sausalito, California, with his wife, Louann Brizendine.
Content
Preface to Second Edition
Introduction: When Intuition Isn't Enough
Part I: Describing Personality Differences
1 Personality Traits
2 Troublesome Patterns
Part II: Explaining Personality Differences
3 How Genes Make Us Different
4 Building a Personal Brain
Part III: Whole Persons, Whole Lives
5 What's a Good Character?
6 Identity: Creating a Personal Story
7 Putting It All Together
Endnotes
References
Acknowledgments
Index
Introduction: When Intuition Isn't Enough
Part I: Describing Personality Differences
1 Personality Traits
2 Troublesome Patterns
Part II: Explaining Personality Differences
3 How Genes Make Us Different
4 Building a Personal Brain
Part III: Whole Persons, Whole Lives
5 What's a Good Character?
6 Identity: Creating a Personal Story
7 Putting It All Together
Endnotes
References
Acknowledgments
Index
