Fifty Years of Personality Psychology

Kenneth H. Craik

ISBN 10: 1489923136 / ISBN 13: 9781489923134

Editore: Springer US, Springer US, 2013

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Assembling original papers by the field's foremost investigators, this history demonstrates the continuity and progress made across five decades of personality psychology research. In addition to providing a historical perspective for the discipline, the work aims to inspire a more coherent agenda for future research.

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• Titolo: Fifty Years of Personality Psychology
• Editore: Springer US, Springer US
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1489923136
• ISBN 13: 9781489923134
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu

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Riassunto

Assembling original papers by the field's foremost investigators, this history demonstrates the continuity and progress made across five decades of personality psychology research. In addition to providing a historical perspective for the discipline, the work aims to inspire a more coherent agenda for future research.

Contenuti

Introduction: The 1937 Allport and Stagner Textbooks in Personality Psychology; K.H. Craik. Historical and and Personal Background of the 1937 Texts: Allport's Personality and Allport's Personality; A.C. Elms. Current State of Personality Psychology and its Textbooks: Pattern and Organizaiton; L.A. Pervin. Presentday Perspectives on Basic Issues: The Individual and the Single Case: Describing Lives; B.J. Cohler. Motives and the Self: Current Status of the Motive Concept; R.A. Emmons. Judging Persons: Judgements of Personality and Personality Itself; D.C. Funder. Personality Assessment and Prediction: The Scientific Credibility of Commonsense Psychology; G.J.O. Fletcher. Epilogue: An Optimistic Forecast; R.T. Hogan. 12 additional articles. Index.