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• Cover
• Publisher’s Notice
• Half-title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• About the Author
• Quotes
• Contents in Brief
• Preface
• Contents
• Chapter 1: The Study of the Person
• The Goals of Personality Psychology
• Appreciating Individual Differences
• Wrapping It Up
• Part I: The Science of Personality: Methods and Assessment
• Chapter 2: Personality Data and Assessment
• Psychology’s Emphasis on Method
• Personality Data: Four Kinds of Clues
• Personality Assessment
• Conclusion
• Wrapping It Up
• Chapter 3: Evaluating Research and Assessment
• Quality of Data: Psychometrics
• Research Design
• Evaluating the Strength of a Finding
• Ethical Issues
• Conclusion
• Wrapping It Up
• Part II: People Are Different: The Trait Approach
• Chapter 4: Persons, Situations, and Personality Judgment
• The Trait Approach
• People Are Inconsistent
• The Person-Situation Debate
• The Accuracy of Personality Judgment
• Accurate Self-Knowledge
• Accuracy Matters
• Wrapping It Up
• Chapter 5: Traits and Types: The Big Five and Beyond
• The Single-Trait Approach
• The Many-Trait Approach
• The Essential-Trait Approach
• Typological Approaches to Personality
• From Assessment to Understanding
• Wrapping It Up
• Chapter 6: 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 7: The Anatomy and Physiology of Personality
• Hippocrates’ Problem and Ours
• Basic Structure and Physiology of the Brain
• Methods for Studying the Brain
• Brain Physiology
• The Big Five and the Brain
• Biology and Psychology
• Wrapping It Up
• Chapter 8: Evolution and Genetics: The Inheritance of Personality
• Evolutionary Personality Psychology
• Behavioral Genetics
• Inheritance is the Beginning, Not the End
• Wrapping It Up
• Part IV: The Hidden World of the Mind: The Psychoanalytic Approach
• Chapter 9: Basics of Psychoanalysis
• Freud Himself
• Key Ideas of Psychoanalysis
• Controversy
• Psychoanalysis, Life, and Death
• Psychosexual Development: “Follow the Money”
• Thinking and Consciousness
• Anxiety and Defense
• Psychoanalysis as a Therapy and as a Route Toward Understanding
• Psychoanalytic Theory: A Critique
• Why Study Freud?
• Wrapping It Up
• Chapter 10: Psychoanalysis After Freud: Neo-Freudians, Object Relations, and Current Research
• Interpreting Freud
• Latter-Day Issues and Theorists
• Empirical Psychoanalytic Research
• Psychoanalysis in Perspective
• Wrapping It Up
• Part V: Experience and Awareness: Humanistic and Cross-Cultural Psychology
• Chapter 11: Humanistic and Positive Psychology
• Phenomenology: Awareness Is Everything
• Existentialism
• Optimistic Humanism: Rogers and Maslow
• Personal Constructs: Kelly
• Positive Psychology
• Humanistic and Positive Psychology in the 21st Century
• Wrapping It Up
• Chapter 12: Cultural Variation in Experience, Behavior, and Personality
• What Is Culture?
• Culture and Personality
• 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: Motivation, Emotion, and the Self
• Chapter 13: Personality Processes: Learning, Cognition, Motivation, and Emotion
• Learning
• Cognitive Theories of Personality
• Motivation
• Emotion
• Happiness
• Personality as a Verb
• Wrapping It Up
• Chapter 14: 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
• The Narrative Self
• How Many Selves?
• The Really Real Self
• Wrapping It Up
• Part VII: Applications of Personality Psychology
• Chapter 15: Relationships and Business
• Love and Relationships
• Work and Business
• Personality and Life
• Wrapping It Up
• Chapter 16: Mental and Physical Health
• Personality Disorders
• The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)
• Defining Personality Disorders
• The Major Personality Disorders
• Organizing and Diagnosing Disorders with the DSM-5 and Beyond
• Personality and Disorder
• Physical Health
• The Healthy Personality
• Wrapping It Up
• Chapter 17: What Have We Learned?
• Which Approach Is Right?
• What Have We Learned?
• The Quest for Understanding
• Wrapping It Up
• Credits
• References
• Glossary
• Name Index
• Subject Index