Table of Contents
Cover (The Personality Puzzle)
Front Matter
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
About the Author
Contents in Brief
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 - The Study of the Person
The Goals of Personality Psychology
The Plan of This Book
Pigeonholing Versus Appreciation of Individual Differences
Wrapping It Up
Part I - The Science of Personality: Methods and Assessment
Chapter 2 Personality Research Methods
Psychology’s Emphasis on Method
Personality Data
Research Design
Conclusion
Wrapping It Up
Chapter 3 Assessment, Effect Size, and Ethics
The Nature of Personality Assessment
The Business of Testing
Personality Tests
Evaluating Assessment and Research
Ethical Issues
Conclusion
Wrapping It Up
Part II - How People Differ: The Trait Approach
Chapter 4 - Personality Traits, Situations, and Behavior
The Trait Approach
People Are Inconsistent
The Person-Situation Debate
Personality and Life
Persons and Situations
People Are Different
Wrapping It Up
Chapter 5 - Personality Judgment
Consequences of Everyday Judgments of Personality
The Accuracy of Personality Judgment
Accuracy Matters
Wrapping It Up
Chapter 6 - Using Personality Traits to Understand Behavior
The Single-Trait Approach
The Many-Trait Approach
The Essential-Trait Approach
Typological Approaches to Personality
From Assessment to Understanding
Wrapping It Up
Chapter 7 - Personality Stability, Development, and Change
Personality Stability
Personality Development
Personality Change
Principles of Personality Continuity and Change
Is Personality Change Good or Bad?
Wrapping It Up
Part III - The Mind and the Body: Biological Approaches to Personality
Chapter 8 - The Anatomy and Physiology of Personality
The Anatomy of Personality
The Biochemistry of Personality
The Big Five and the Brain
Biology: Cause and Effect
Wrapping It Up
Chapter 9 - The Inheritance of Personality: Behavioral Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology
Behavioral Genetics
Evolutionary Personality Psychology
Inheritance Is the Beginning, Not the End
Will Biology Replace Psychology?
Wrapping It Up
Part IV - The Hidden World of the Mind: The Psychoanalytic Approach
Chapter 10 - Basics of Psychoanalysis
Freud Himself
The Key Ideas of Psychoanalysis
Controversy
Psychoanalysis, Life, and Death
Psychological Development: “Follow the Money”
Thinking and Consciousness
Parapraxes
Anxiety and Defense
Psychoanalysis as a Therapy and as a Route Toward Understanding
Psychoanalytic Theory: A Critique
Why Study Freud?
Wrapping It Up
Chapter 11 - Psychoanalysis After Freud: Neo-Freudians, Object Relations, and Current
Research
Interpreting Freud
Latter-Day Issues and Theorists
Current Psychoanalytic Research
Psychoanalysis in Perspective
Wrapping It Up
Part V - Experience and Awareness: Humanistic and Cross-Cultural Psychology
Chapter 12 - Experience, Existence, and the Meaning of Life: Humanistic and Positive Psychology
Phenomenology: Awareness Is Everything
Existentialism
Optimistic Humanism: Rogers and Maslow
Personal Constructs: Kelly
Flow: Csikszentmihalyi
Self-Determination Theory: Deci and Ryan
Positive Psychology
The Implications of Phenomenology
Wrapping It Up
Chapter 13 - Cultural Variation in Experience, Behavior, and Personality
Culture and Psychology
The Importance of Cross-Cultural Differences
Characteristics of Cultures
Cultural Assessment and Personality Assessment
The Origins of Cultural Differences
Challenges and New Directions for Cross-Cultural Research
The Universal Human Condition
Wrapping It Up
Part VI - What Personality Does: Learning, Thinking, Feeling, and Knowing
Chapter 14 - Learning to Be a Person: Behaviorism and the Social Learning Theories
Behaviorism
Social Learning Theory
The Cognitive-Affective Personality System
Contributions and Limitations of Learning Approaches to Personality
Behaviorism and Personality
Wrapping It Up
Chapter 15 - Personality Processes: Perception, Thought, Motivation, and Emotion
The Historical Roots of Research Into Personality Processes
Perception
Thought
Motivation
Emotion
Personality as a Verb
Wrapping It Up
Chapter 16 - The Self: What You Know About You
The I and the Me
The Contents and Purposes of the Self
The Declarative Self
The Procedural Self
How Many Selves?
The Really Real Self
Wrapping It Up
Chapter 17 - Personality, Mental Health, and Physical Health
Personality and Mental Health: Personality Disorders
Personality and Physical Health
The Healthy Personality
Wrapping It Up
Epilogue
Which Approach Is Right?
What Have We Learned?
The Quest for Understanding
Wrapping It Up
Credits
References
Glossary
Name Index
Subject Index
