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Table of Contents:

Readings in Personality Psychology

A Theoretical Perspectives Organization

Introductory Issues
Chapter 1. Reading Personality Psychology: Frequently Asked Questions What Does It Mean to Read Personality Psychology? Why Read Primary and Secondary Source Material? Concluding Comments	1

Chapter 2. Teaching Personality Psychology: The Professors’ Debate Reading a Professional Newsletter Teaching Personality (Brief comments by) M. Leary, J. D. Mayer, R. Hogan, R. Wheeler, R. Osborne, R. Baumeister, and D. Tice Concluding Comments	7
Chapter 4. The Proper Use of Psychological Tests: An Expert Speaks An Expert’s Expert What Counselors Should Know about the Use and Interpretation of Psychological Tests A. Anastasi Concluding Comments	41

Biological Bases, Dispositions, and Traits
Chapter 15. Reviewing a Book on Personality Development Using Book Reviews Peering into the Nature-Nurture Debate W. Williams ; Parents and Personality Debate R. Plomin Concluding Comments	163
Chapter 5. Exploring Parts of Personality with a Quasi-Experimental Design Reading an Empirical Research Report Sensation Seeking and the Need for Achievement among Study-Abroad Students M. Schroth Concluding Comments	53

Chapter 6. Exploring Parts of Personality with a Field Study Reading about a Field Study Study Habits and Eysenck’s Theory of Extraversion-Introversion J. B. Campbell & C. W. Hawley Concluding Comments	58
Chapter 8. How Good Is the Measure of the Parts? Reading a Test Review Review of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children J. P. Braden Concluding Comments	93

Psychodynamics And Social Cognition

Chapter 10. Reading Freud on Psychodynamics Reading Freud and the Early-20 th Century Grand Theorists Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (From Lectures II, III, and IV) S. Freud Concluding Comments	113
Chapter 13. Changing Personality Reading a Summary of Studies Writing about Emotional Experiences as a Therapeutic Process J. W. Pennebaker Concluding Comments	144
Chapter 11. Personality Dynamics in a Clinical Case Study Reading a Case Study Possible False Confession in a Military Court-Martial: A Case Study .. S. A. Talmadge Concluding Comments	129

Chapter 12. Dynamics of Self-Control Studying Personality Processes (Quasi-) Experimentally Defensive Self-Deception and Social Adaptation among Optimists J. Norem Concluding Comments

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Humanistic and Developmental Approaches
Chapter 3. Thinking Big about Personality Psychology Encountering the Big Picture What Do We Know When We Know a Person? D. P. McAdams Concluding Comments
Chapter 14. Studying Personality across Time Reading Longitudinal Research Transactional Links between Personality and Adaptation from Childhood through Adulthood R. Shiner and A. Masten Concluding Comments
Chapter 16. A Stage Theory of Development Help from a Grand Theorist Eight Ages of Man E. Erikson Concluding Comments
Chapter 17. Re-Envisioning Development: Updating the Greats Reading Back to the Future Emerging Adulthood. A Theory of Development from the Late Teens through the Twenties . J. J. Arnett Concluding Comments
Chapter 9. Some Funny Stuff On Professional Humor The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory A. Rosen ; A Brief Report on Clinical Aspects of Procrastination K. Alberding, D. Antonuccio, & B.H. Tearnan Concluding Comments