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

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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

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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

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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

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Parts of Personality

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

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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

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Chapter 7. Reading Programmatic Research: Studies about the Self

• Reading Programmatic Research
• Possible Selves H. Markus and P. Nurius
• Concluding Comments

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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

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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

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Personality Organization

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

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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

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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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Chapter 13. Changing Personality

• Reading a Summary of Studies
• Writing about Emotional Experiences as a Therapeutic Process J. W. Pennebaker
• Concluding Comments

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Personality Development

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

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Chapter 15. Reviewing a Book on Personality Development

• Using Book Reviews
• Peering into the Nature-Nurture Debate W. Williams ; Parents and Personality R. Plomin
• Concluding Comments

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Chapter 16. A Stage Theory of Development

• Help from a Grand Theorist
• Eight Ages of Man E. Erikson
• Concluding Comments

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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

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Editor’s References

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