Personality category: 1900 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Personality and Roles: Sources of Regularities in Social Behavior For behavioral scientists, whether they identify primarily with the science of psychology or with that of sociology, there may be no challenge greater than that of discovering regularities and consistencies in social behavior. After...
by Jaroslaw Jankowski
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Meet the self-sufficient and brilliant strategist, the constructive and responsive mentor and the warm and optimistic counsellor. Meet the artist, the logician, the enthusiast and the presenter… Discover what makes each personality type distinctive. Then try matching them to your nearest and dearest,...
The H Factor of Personality
Why Some People Are Manipulative, Self-Entitled, Materialistic, and Exploitive—And Why It Matters for Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The “H” in the H factor stands for “Honesty-Humility,” and it’s one of only six basic dimensions of personality. People who have high levels of H are sincere and modest; people who have low levels are deceitful and pretentious. It isn’t intuitively obvious that traits of honesty and humility...
by Colin Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Colin Cooper's 'Individual Differences' has been a favourite among lecturers and students of differential psychology since it was published in 1997. It is unique in its comprehensive coverage of both personality theories and the methodological issues associated with personality and psychometric testing.
This...
Personality Theories
A Global View
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Personality Theories: A Global View by leading scholar Eric Shiraev takes a dynamic, integrated, and cross-cultural approach to the study of personality. The text is organized around three general questions: Where did personality theories come from? How did the theorists study facts? How do we apply...
Measuring the Psychological and Electrophysiological Attributes of Human Personality
Emerging Research and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Significant progress has been made in the study of human psychology in recent years. However, certain aspects of personality, such as electrophysiological attributes, have yet to be fully examined. Measuring the Psychological and Electrophysiological Attributes of Human Personality: Emerging Research...
Optimal Human Being
An Integrated Multi-level Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
Ken Sheldon's comprehensive new book addresses two questions: how can individuals best integrate the different facets of themselves to achieve "optimal human being", and how can researchers best integrate the different levels of analysis within the human sciences to understand "optimal...
Experimental Psychology Its Scope and Method: Volume V (Psychology Revivals)
Motivation, Emotion and Personality
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
First published in English in 1968, Joseph Nuttin contributes the first chapter, on Motivation. He discusses various aspects of the motivational process. Such as incentives, conflict, social motivation, and negative motivation, and describes the mechanism of the process. The second chapter, by Paul...
Personality and Psychopathology
Critical Dialogues with David Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
With his penetrating theory of personality and his nuanced understanding of the psychotherapeutic relationship, David Shapiro has influenced clinicians across the theoretical spectrum since the publication of Neurotic Styles in 1965. This influence is on vivid display in Personality and Psychopathology,...
Handbook of Personality Disorders, Second Edition
Theory, Research, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
The leading reference on personality disorders and their treatment, this authoritative work is now significantly revised with 80% new content reflecting important advances in the field. Preeminent experts provide in-depth coverage of conceptual and taxonomic issues, psychopathology, epidemiology and...
by Gordon Claridge, Caroline Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
In recent years, the assumption that there is a significant connection between normal psychological and biological differences and the development of psychological disorders has grown and research in this area has developed rapidly.
This textbook, written by internationally known psychologists...
Personality (Psychology Revivals)
Measurement and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Originally published in 1983 and written in the tradition of the British School of Psychology, Spearman, Burt, Eysenck, Cattell, this book from a well-known author was exceptional at the time in its attempt to wed quantification and psychological theory in the study of personality.
The student...
by Updesh Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
The Wiley Handbook of Personality Assessment presents the state-of-the-art in the field of personality assessment, providing a perspective on emerging trends, and placing these in the context of research advances in the associated fields.
Explores emerging trends and perspectives in personality...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Originally published in 1981, this volume presents the domain of personality as a fuzzy set that includes features previously identified with cognitive and social psychology. Few of the individual contributions are centrally concerned with individual differences and cross-situational stability, but...