Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge about Human Nature, 3e
McGraw-Hill Education (UK) Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-5268-4787-4 (ISBN)
others, to how we respond in stressful situations. Personality Psychology uses a unique organizational
framework to explore the six key domains of knowledge about personality – Dispositional, Biological,
Intrapsychic, Cognitive/Experiential, Social/Cultural and Adjustment. This third edition focuses on the scientific
basis of current understanding, highlighting contemporary research while also covering classic viewpoints.
Key features:
• Updated chapter on Culture and Personality with an expanded review of international research
• Extensively revised chapter on Personality Disorders, covering the DSM-5 and its hybrid model
• New and refreshed pedagogy including ‘Application boxes’, which examine how personality
theories and research are used in real-world situations
• ‘A Closer Look’ sections, which explore core topics and influential studies to enhance students’
understanding
• New and updated Exercises to encourage critical reflection and the application of theory to
personal experience
• A fully revised chapter on Psychoanalytic Approaches to Personality, including historical
perspectives and extended coverage of Object Relations Theory and Ego Psychology
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Randy Larsen is the William R. Stuckenberg Professor of Human Values and Moral Development at Washington
University in St. Louis. His recent classes include personality psychology and ethics for scientists.
David Buss is Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Individual Differences and Evolutionary
Psychology (IDEP) programme at the University of Texas at Austin.
Andreas Wismeijer lectures in personality psychology and a multitude of other courses at Tilburg University and
Nyenrode Business University. He is a prolific writer of articles on psychology.
John Song is the interim Head of the School of Applied Social Sciences at De Montfort University, where he has also
taught personality, individual differences and research methods as an Associate Professor.
Stéphanie van den Berg is Associate Professor at the University of Twente where she teaches statistics, data science
and psychometrics to students in the behavioural sciences.
Bertus Jeronimus teaches courses on personality and individual differences, as well as lifespan development and
socialization, at Groningen University. He is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences.
Randy J. Larsen received his PhD in Personality Psychology from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1984. In 1992, he was awarded the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award for Early Career Contributions to Personality Psychology from the American Psychological Association, and in 1987 he received a Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health. He has been an associate editor at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and has been on the editorial boards of the Journal of Research in Personality, Review of General Psychology, and the Journal of Personality. RandyLarsen has served on several Scientifi c Review Groups for the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Research Council. He is a Fellow in the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association. His research on personality has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Aging, the McDonnell Foundation for Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Solon Summerfield Foundation. In 2000 he was elected president of the Midwestern Psychological Association. He has served on the faculty at Purdue University and the University of Michigan. Currently Randy Larsen is chairman of the Psychology Department, and the William R. Stuckenberg Professor of Human Values and Moral Development, at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches Personality Psychology and other courses. He lives in St. Louis with his wife and two children. David M. Buss received his PhD in 1981 from the University of California at Berkeley. He served on the faculties of Harvard University and the University of Michigan before accepting a professorship at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has taught since 1996. Buss received the American Psychological Association (APA) DistinguishedScientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in 1988, the APA G. Stanley Hall Award in 1990, and the APA Distinguished Scientist Lecturer Award in 2001. Books by David Buss include The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating (Revised Edition) (Basic Books, 2003), which has been translated into 10 languages;Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind (4th ed.) (Allyn & Bacon, 2012), which was presented with the Robert W. Hamilton Book Award; The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex (Free Press,2000), which has been translated into 13 languages; and The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (Wiley, 2005). Buss has authored more than 250 scientifi c publications and has also written articles for The New York Times and the Times Higher Education Supplement. He appears in the ISI List of Most Highly Cited Psychologists Worldwide, and as the 27th Most Cited Psychologist in Introductory Psychology textbooks. He lectures widely throughout the United States and abroad and has extensive crosscultural research collaborations. David Buss greatly enjoys teaching, and in 2001 he won the President’s Teaching Excellence Award at the University of Texas.
1 Introduction to Personality Psychology
2 Personality Assessment, Measurement and Research Design
Part I: The Dispositional Domain
3 Traits and Trait Taxonomies
4 Measurement Issues in Trait Psychology
5 Personality Dispositions over Time: Stability and Change
Part II: The Biological Domain
6 Genetics and Personality
7 Physiological Approaches to Personality
8 Evolutionary Perspectives on Personality
Part III: The Intrapsychic Domain
9 Psychoanalytic Approaches to Personality
10 Motives and Personality
Part IV: The Cognitive/Experiential Domain
11 Cognitive Topics in Personality
12 Intelligence
13 Emotion and Personality
14 Approaches to the Self
Part V: The Social and Cultural Domain
15 Personality and Social Interaction
16 Sex, Gender and Personality
17 Culture and Personality
Part VI: The Adjustment Domain
18 Stress, Coping, Adjustment and Health
19 Disorders of Personality
20 Summary and Future Directions
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.01.2021 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 195 x 260 mm |
| Gewicht | 1302 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5268-4787-6 / 1526847876 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5268-4787-4 / 9781526847874 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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