Fifty Years of Personality Psychology

ISBN-13: 9781489923134 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 314 str.

Kenneth H. Craik; Robert Hogan; Raymond N. Wolfe

Opis

Assembling original papers by the field's foremost investigators, this history demonstrates the continuity and progress made across five decades of personality psychology research. In addition to providing a historical perspective for the discipline, the work aims to inspire a more coherent agenda for future research.

Spis treści

Introduction: The 1937 Allport and Stagner Textbooks in Personality Psychology; K.H. Craik. Historical and and Personal Background of the 1937 Texts: Allport's Personality and Allport's Personality; A.C. Elms. Current State of Personality Psychology and its Textbooks: Pattern and Organizaiton; L.A. Pervin. Presentday Perspectives on Basic Issues: The Individual and the Single Case: Describing Lives; B.J. Cohler. Motives and the Self: Current Status of the Motive Concept; R.A. Emmons. Judging Persons: Judgements of Personality and Personality Itself; D.C. Funder. Personality Assessment and Prediction: The Scientific Credibility of Commonsense Psychology; G.J.O. Fletcher. Epilogue: An Optimistic Forecast; R.T. Hogan. 12 additional articles. Index.