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Personality: Classic Theories and Modern Research, 2/E
Howard S. Friedman, University of California - Riverside
Miriam W. Schustack, California State University - San Marcos

ISBN-10: 0205324231
ISBN-13: 9780205324231

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 2003
Format: Cloth; 584 pp
Published: 07/29/2002

This item has been replaced by Personality: Classic Theories and Modern Research, 4/E.

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.

Continuing and expanding the coverage of cross-cultural and gender issues, the book integrates them throughout the book, and also covers them in their own separate chapters, Chapter 11, “Gender,” and Chapter 13, “Culture.”

“Self Understanding” boxes present self-assessment techniques for students to try.

“Famous Personality” boxes illustrate select concepts using well-known and contemporary examples.

Part 3 introduces four applied chapters, providing students with the opportunity to apply theory to practice.

A helpful summary chapter (Ch. 15) looks forward to the future of the field of personality perspectives.

A companion book of primary readings is also available: Readings in Personality: Classic Theories and Modern Research by Friedman/Schustack (2001).

New material on the biological and evolutionary aspects of personality has been integrated throughout the text, while still maintaining critical discussion of strengths, weaknesses, and misuses of evolutionary approaches.

Enhanced discussion of happiness, hate, and culture helps students understand the timely topics of terror, conflict, and healing.

“Classic to Current” boxes show how classic ideas have led to current research in each perspective.

New timelines of developments within the field have been added to each core chapter, helping students understand the intellectual progression of ideas.

TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGE—A new PowerPoint Presentation CD-ROM has been added. (0-205-37908-7)

Each concludes with “Summary and Conclusion.”

I. INTRODUCTION.

1. What Is Personality?

Personality and Science.

Preview of the Perspectives.

A Brief History of Personality Psychology.

Some Basic Issues: The Unconscious, the Self, Uniqueness, Gender, Situations, Culture.

Personality in Context.

2. How Is Personality Studied and Assessed?

Measuring Personality.

Bias.

Varieties of Personality Measures.

How Not to Test Personality.

The Design of Research.

The Ethics of Personality Testing.

II. EIGHT BASIC ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY.

3. Psychoanalytic Aspects of Personality.

Basic Psychoanalytic Concepts.

Psychosexual Development.

Male versus Female.

Defense Mechanisms.

Cross-Cultural Issues.

Major Contributions and Limitations of Freudian Psychoanalysis.

Modern Developments from Experimental Psychology.

4. Neo-Analytic and Ego Aspects of Personality: Identity.

Carl G. Jung and Selfhood.

Alfred Adler, the Inferiority Complex, and the Importance of Society.

Karen Horney, Culture, and Feminism.

Bridges from Freud to More Modern Conceptions.

Object Relations Theories: A Conceptual Link between Self-Identity and Social Identity.

Erik Erikson, Life-Span Identity, and Identity Crises.

Some Modern Approaches to Identity.

5. Biological Aspects of Personality.

Direct Genetic Effects.

Genetic Effects through Temperament.

Twins as a Source of Data.

Sexual Identity and Homosexuality.

Mediated Effects of Biology.

Effects from Creation of Environments.

Effects from Reactions of Others.

Sociobiology and Evolutionary Personality.

Personality and Public Policy.

6. Behaviorist and Learning Aspects of Personality.

The Classical Conditioning of Personality.

The Origins of Behaviorist Approaches: Watson's Behaviorism.

The Radical Behaviorism of B. F. Skinner.

Applying Behaviorism: Personality Change and Individual Differences.

Other Learning Approaches to Personality.

Key Behaviorist Terms and Concepts.

Evaluation.

7. Cognitive and Social-Cognitive Aspects of Personality.

Roots of Cognitive Approaches.

Cognitive and Perceptual Mechanisms.

Humans as Scientists: George Kelly's Personal Construct Theory.

Social Intelligence.

Explanatory Style as a Personality Variable.

Julian Rotter's Locus of Control Approach.

Albert Bandura's Social-Cognitive Learning Theory.

Humans as Computers.

8. Trait and Skill Aspects of Personality.

The History of Trait Approaches.

Gordon Allport's Trait Psychology.

A Contemporary Trait Approach: The Big Five.

Personality Judgments.

Types.

Motives.

Expressive Style.

Skills.

9. Humanistic and Existential Aspects of Personality.

Existentialism.

Humanism.

Love as a Central Focus of Life: Erich Fromm.

Responsibility: Carl Rogers.

Anxiety and Dread.

Self-Actualization.

Happiness and Positive Psychology.

Further Evaluation of Existential-Humanistic Approaches.

10. Person-Situation Interactionist Aspects of Personality.

Harry Stack Sullivan: Interpersonal Psychiatry.

Motivation and Goals: Henry Murray.

Modern Interactionist Approaches Begin.

Implicit Personality Theory.

The Power of Situations.

Time: The Importance of Longitudinal Study.

Interactions, Emotions, and Development.

III. APPLICATIONS TO INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES.

11. Male-Female Differences.

Do Males and Females Differ?

A Brief History of Gender Difference in Personality.

Biological Influences on Gender Differences.

Gender Differences in Personality from the Eight Perspectives.

Cross-Cultural Studies of Gender Differences.

Love and Sexual Behavior.

12. Stress, Adjustment, and Health Differences.

Disease-Prone Personalities.

Personality and Coronary-Proneness.

The Human Termites.

Blaming the Victim.

The Self-Healing Personality.

The Influence of Humanistic and Existential Aspects on Understanding Self-Healing.

13. Cultural and Ethnic Differences.

Group Influence.

History of Research on Personality and Culture.

Collectivist versus Individualistic.

Errors of Scientific Inference: The Case of Race.

Socioeconomic Influences on Personality.

Language as a Cultural Influence.

Culture and Testing.

A More General Model of Personality and Culture.

Some Current Research Developments.

14. Love and Hate.

The Personality of Hate.

Evaluation: Hate.

The Personality of Love.

Love Gone Wrong: Violent or Risky Sexual Behavior.

IV. CONCLUSION AND OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE.

15. Where Will We Find Personality?

The Brave New World of Personality.

The Eight Perspectives Revisited.

Glossary.

References.

Name Index.

Subject Index.

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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 encourage deeper thought.

This text explores classic theory from a perspective that encourages critical thinking and fosters intellectual insight with respect to human nature. For example, it shows the relevance of classic theory to topics of personality and culture, evolution, ego, gender, and person-situation interactionism.

Employing the highest scientific standards, Personality also uses a wide range of unique and provocative pedagogical devices that have been shown to motivate students. Hailed as the best-written, most relevant personality textbook on the market, Friedman and Schustack's third edition brings the field of personality to today's diverse student body.
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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 encourage deeper thought.

This text explores classic theory from a perspective that encourages critical thinking and fosters intellectual insight with respect to human nature. For example, it shows the relevance of classic theory to topics of personality and culture, evolution, ego, gender, and person-situation interactionism.

Employing the highest scientific standards, Personality also uses a wide range of unique and provocative pedagogical devices that have been shown to motivate students. Hailed as the best-written, most relevant personality textbook on the market, Friedman and Schustack's fourth edition brings the field of personality to today's diverse student body.
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