Contents
- Chapter 1 (Introduction): The Study of the Person
- Part I Research Methods
- Chapter 2: Clues to Personality: The Basic Sources of Data
- Chapter 3: Personality Psychology as Science: Research Methods
- Part II How People Differ: The Trait Approach
- Chapter 4: Personality Traits and Behavior
- Chapter 5: Personality Assessment I: Personality Testing and Its Consequences
- Chapter 6: Personality Assessment II: Personality Judgment in Daily Life
- Chapter 7: Using Personality Traits to Understand Behavior (HEAVILY REVISED)
- NEW updated treatment of the "Big Five" and development of personality over the lifespan
- Part III The Mind and the Body: Biological Approaches to Personality
- Chapter 8: The Anatomy and Physiology of Personality
- NEW updated treatment of brain imaging and fMRI scans
- Chapter 9: The Inheritance of Personality: Behavioral Genetics and Evolutionary Theory
- NEW section on molecular genetics
- Part IV The Hidden World of the Mind: The Psychoanalytic Approach
- Chapter 10: Basics of Psychoanalysis
- Chapter 11: The Workings of the Unconscious Mind: Defenses and Slips
- Chapter 12: Psychoanalysis after Freud: The Neo-Freudians, Object Relations, and Empirical Evidence
- Part V Experience and Awareness: Humanistic and Cross-Cultural Psychology
- Chapter 13: Experience, Existence, and the Meaning of Life: Humanistic Psychology
- Chapter 14: Cultural Variation in Experience, Behavior, and Personality
- NEW updated treatment of multiculturalism and individual differences in acculturation
- Part VI The Person and the Situation: Learning and Cognitive Approaches to Personality
- Chapter 15: How the World Creates Who You Are: Behaviorism and Social Learning Theory
- Chapter 16: Personality Processes: Perception, Thought, Motivation, and Emotion
- NEW updated treatment of emotion, including a new section on happiness
- Chapter 17: What You Know About You: The Self (NEW CHAPTER)
- NEW chapter integrates material previously spread across the cognitive domain
- Chapter 18: Disorders of Personality (NEW CHAPTER)
- NEW capstone chapter that acts as a synthesis point for the major paradigms
- Chapter 19: Conclusion: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
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