Personality: Classic Theories and Modern Research

Personality: Classic Theories and Modern Research
ISBN-10
0205324231
ISBN-13
9780205324231
Series
Personality
Category
Psychology / General
Pages
584
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
Allyn and Bacon
Authors
Howard S. Friedman, Miriam W. Schustack

Description

This successful text puts personality back into the personality course, integrating the classic insights of the personality theorists with modern research in a manner that will fascinate and captive students. Organized around eight basic aspects of personality - psychoanalytic, ego, biological, behaviorist, cognitive, trait, humanistic, and situational/interactionist - the text both explains the classic theories and also explores how the information applies to the student reader. The text presents a balanced, critical, yet optimistic approach. Personality encourages critical thinking about human nature. While holding the highest scientific standards, the text uses unique and provocative pedagogical devices (see below) to capture students' interest and bring the field of personality to life. It has been hailed as the best-written and most relevant personality textbook in the field. - New material on the biological and evolutionary aspects of personality have been integrated throughout the text, but it still maintains critical discussion of strengths, weaknesses, and misuses of evolutionary approaches. - Enhanced discussion of happiness, and of hate, as well as culture helps studen

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