[PDF] Perspectives On Personality eBook

Author : Charles S. Carver
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,21 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Personality
ISBN : 9789353067854

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"Perspectives on Personality describes a range of viewpoints that are used by personality psychologists today, and helps students understand how these viewpoints can be applied to their own lives. Authors Charles Carver and Michael Scheier dedicate a chapter to each major perspective, presenting an overview on the perspective's orienting assumptions and core themes and concluding with a discussion of problems within that theoretical viewpoint and predictions about its future prospects. The Eighth edition incorporates several important recent developments in the field, including genetics and genomics and the biological underpinnings of impulsiveness"--Back cover

Author : Albert Ellis
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 24,51 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1412970628

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'Personality Theories' by Albert Ellis - the founding father of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy - provides a comprehensive review of all major theories of personality including theories of personality pathology. Importantly, it critically reviews each of these theories in light of the competing theories as well as recent research.

Author : Charles S. Carver
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 26,18 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :

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Jason Freeman lives in Malibu - a town full of beautiful rich kids whose lives revolve around money, fashion, cars and parties. But these teens hide a dark - and dangerous secret . . . High Stakes Jason thinks he must have just about taken all the challenges that can be thrown at him and Sienna, until Sienna's older sister, Paige turns up unexpectedly back from college in Paris. But when Paige's old boyfriend Mark turns up, things get dangerous. Sienna is missing and being used as bait between Paige and Mark. Suddenly the stakes are very high . . . Hunted The vampire clique are settling in for a good summer. But their peace is shattered when evidence emerges that there's a vampire hunter in town. Friends are going missing and then reappearing with no real memory of what's happened to them. What's really going on?

Author : Stephen Strack, PhD
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 32,83 MB
Release : 2005-11-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0826132049

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The field of personology or personality is enjoying great growth, spurred by findings from behavior genetics, evolutionary psychology, rethinking of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders definition of personality disorders, and advances in test construction and psychometrics . This book traces the development of the field, written by those who were the pioneers of personality assessment. Sixteen autobiographical chapters written by the pioneers of personality assessment trace the development of the field. With accompanying photos and a concise bibliography from each contributor, this one-of-a-kind compilation of the past, present, and future of personology provide a unique insider's view of the discipline.

Author : G. Matthews
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 1997-12-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0080529305

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This book aims to highlight the vigour, diversity and insight of the various cognitive science perspectives on personality and emotion. It aims also to emphasise the rigorous scientific basis for research to be found in the integration of experimental psychology with neuroscience, connectionism and the new evolutionary psychology. The contributors to this book provide a wide-ranging survey of leading-edge research topics. It is divided into three parts, on general frameworks for cognitive science, on perspectives from emotion research, and on perspectives from studies of personality traits.

Author : Edward Tory Higgins
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 49,32 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780863776960

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A current collection of articles that define the field of motivational science.

Author : Jule Specht
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 32,14 MB
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0128047615

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Personality Development across the Lifespan examines the development of personality characteristics from childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood, adulthood, and old age. It provides a comprehensive overview of theoretical perspectives, methods, and empirical findings of personality and developmental psychology, also detailing insights on how individuals differ from each other, how they change during life, and how these changes relate to biological and environmental factors, including major life events, social relationships, and health. The book begins with chapters on personality development in different life phases before moving on to theoretical perspectives, the development of specific personality characteristics, and personality development in relation to different contexts, like close others, health, and culture. Final sections cover methods in research on the topic and the future directions of research in personality development. Introduces and reviews the most important personality characteristics Examines personality in relation to different contexts and how it is related to important life outcomes Discusses patterns and sources of personality development