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The Personality Puzzle 4e

Contents

  • Research Methods
  • McAdams, “What Do We Know When We Know a Person?”
  • Rosenthal and Rubin, “A Simple, General-Purpose Display of Magnitude of Experimental Effect”
  • Cronbach and Meehl, “Construct Validity in Psychological Tests”
  • Gosling, John, Craik, and Robins, “Do People Know How They Behave? Self-Reported Act Frequencies Compared With On-Line Codings by Observers”
  • Trait Approach
  • Allport, “What is a Trait of Personality?”
  • Mischel, “Consistency and Specificity in Behavior”
  • Kenrick and Funder, “Profitting from Controversy: Lessons from the Person-Situation Debate”
  • McCrae and Costa, “A Five Factor Theory of Personality”
  • New Ozer and Benet Martínez, “Personality and the Prediction of Consequential Outcomes”
  • Biological Approach
  • Dabbs, “Testosterone Differences Among College Fraternities: Well-Behaved Versus Rambunctious”
  • New Canli, “Functional Brain Mapping of Extraversion and Neuroticism: Learning from Individual Differences in Emotion Processing”
  • Borkenau, Riemann, Angleitner, and Spinath,“Genetic and Environmental Influences on Observed Personality: Evidence from the German Observational Study of Adult Twins”
  • New Caspi, “Influence of Life Stress on Depression: Moderation by a Polymorphism in the 5-HTT Gene”
  • New Farah, “Neuroethics: The Practical and the Philosophical”
  • Eagly and Wood, “The Origins of Sex Differences in Human Behavior: Evolved Dispositions Versus Social Roles”
  • Psychoanalytic Approach
  • Freud, “Lecture XXXI: The Dissection of the Psychical Personality”
  • Jung, “Psychological Types”
  • Horney, “The Distrust Between the Sexes”
  • Erickson, “Eight Stages of Man”
  • Baumeister, Dale, and Sommer, “Freudian Defense Mechanisms and Empirical Findings in Modern Social Psychology, Reaction Formation, Projection, Displacement, Undoing, Isolation, Sublimation, and Denial”
  • Steinem, “Womb Envy, Testyria, and Breast Castration Anxiety: What if Freud Were Female?”
  • Humanistic Approach
  • Maslow, “A Theory of Human Motivation”
  • Rogers, “Some Observations on the Organization of Personality”
  • Csikszentmihalyi, “If We are So Rich, Why Aren’t We Happy?”
  • New Lyubomirsky, Sheldon, and Schkade,“Pursued Happiness: The Architecture of Sustainable Change”
  • New Dahlsgaard, Peterson, and Seligman, “Shared Virtue: The Convergence of Valued Human Strengths Across Culture and History”
  • Cross-Cultural Approach to Personality
  • Triandis, “The Self and Social Behavior in Differing Cultural Contexts”
  • Markus and Kitayama, “The Collective Fear of the Collective: Implications for Selves and Theories of Selves”
  • New Tsai, “Variation Among European Americans in Emotional Facial Expression”
  • New McCrae, “Human Nature and Culture: A Trait Perspective”
  • New Oishi, “Personality in Culture: A Neo-Allportian View”
  • Process Approaches to Personality: Learning, Motivation, and the Self
  • Skinner, “Why Organisms Behave”
  • Bandura, “The Self-System in Reciprocal Determinism”
  • Mischel, “Personality Coherence and Dispositions in a Cognitive-Affective Personality (CAPS) Approach”
  • New Sheldon, Ryan, Deci, and Kasser, “The Independent Effects of Goal Contents and Motives on Well-Being: It’s Both What You Pursue and Why You Pursue”
  • New Baumeister, “Does High Self-Esteem Cause Better Performance, Interpersonal Success, Happiness, or Healthier Lifestyles?”
  • New Donnellan, Trzesniewski, Robins, Moffitt, and Caspi, “Low Self-Esteem is Related to Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, and Delinquency”
  • Klein, Loftus, and Kihlstrom, “Self-Knowledge of an Amnesiac Patient: Toward a Neuropsychology of Personality and Social Psychology”