The Person: A New Introduction to Personality Psychology

ISBN-13: 9781119705062 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Riverside; University William L. (University of California

Spis treści

About the Authors vPreface xvCase Studies xviiPart I Personality, Human Nature, and Culture1 Persons 22 The Evolution of Human Nature 343 Social Learning and Culture 66Part II the Person as Social Actor4 Dispositional Traits 1005 Emotional Life: Extraversion and Neuroticism 1276 Self- Regulation: Agreeableness and Conscientiousness 1597 Expanding Your Mind: Openness to Experience 1918 Stability and Change in Personality Traits 218Part III the Person as Motivated Agent9 Human Motivation: Needs and Goals 25210 The Moral Animal 28711 Self and Other 318Part IV the Person as Autobiographical Author12 Life Stories 35813 Narrative, Culture, and the Adult Life Course 39214 Psychological Biography and the Narrative Study of Lives 427Part V Application to the Clinical Realm15 Personality Disorder 466Glossary G- 1References R- 1Credits C- 1Name Index I- 1Subject Index I- 1

O autorze

Dan P. McAdams is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University. He received his doctorate from Harvard University in Psychology and Social Relations, with a concentration in Personality and Developmental Psychology. The author of nearly 300 articles and chapters and 8 books, McAdams has conducted research in the areas of narrative identity, generativity, leadership, psychological biography, culture and the self, and themes of power, love, redemption and contamination in human lives. In the 1990s and early 2000s, he pioneered and established the life-story approach to the study of personality and life-span developmental psychology. His book, The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By (Oxford University Press, 2006) won the American Psychological Association's William James Award for the best general-interest book published in psychology in 2006. He is also the winner of the Jack Block Award for career contributions to personality psychology, the Henry A. Murray Award for excellence in the study of lives, and the Theodore Sarbin Award for contributions to philosophical and theoretical psychology. McAdams is the author most recently of The Art and Science of Personality Development (2015, Guilford Press) and the forthcoming The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump: A Psychological Reckoning (Oxford University Press).William L. Dunlop was an associate professor of psychology at University of California, Riverside, and a visiting professor at Aarhus University in Denmark, before his death in September of 2021. He was a leading authority on the study of meaning making, life narrative, volitional personality change, idiographic and nomothetic methods in personality science, the contetualization of personality and identity, and the development of personal relationships. Professor Dunlop was named a Rising Star by the Association for Research in Personality.