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Selected Features
- Introductory graphics at the outset of each chapter make it easy for students to follow the book’s outline and the progress of their own study of personality.
- Real life case examples illustrate central points. These cases appear both in chapter openings and in Case Study boxes.
- Disciplinary Crossroads boxes connect Personality Psychology to adjoining fields such as Literature, Artificial Intelligence, Political Science and Biology.
- Inside the Field boxes take the student behind the scenes to experience the discipline of Personality Psychology from the inside.
- Connecting Windows link related topics across the book. For example, Freud's theory of motives is introduced in Chapter 3’s coverage of theoretical perspectives; a connecting window there links it to current thinking on motives in Chapter 4.
- The book’s organization follows a peer-reviewed new plan for the discipline– and has been classroom tested by multiple instructors.
- Over 1,400 original sources of theory and research, many published in the last decade, are covered in the text.
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