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9780205579532

Current Directions in Personality Psychology

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  • ISBN13:

    9780205579532

  • ISBN10:

    0205579531

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-06-01
  • Publisher: Pearson
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Summary

This new and exciting Association for Psychological Science reader includes over 20 articles that have been carefully selected for the undergraduate audience, and taken from the very accessibleCurrent Directions in Psychological Sciencejournal. These timely, cutting-edge articles allow instructors to bring their students real-world perspective-from a reliable source-about today's most current and pressing issues in personality psychology.

Table of Contents

Personality Defined: The Issue of Stability
The Stability of Personality: Observations and Evaluations
Situation-Behavior Profiles as a Locus of Consistency in Personality
Moving Personality Beyond the Person-Situation Debate: The Challenge and the Opportunity of Within-Person Variability
The Role of Biological Mechanisms In Personality
Biological Bases of Maternal Attachment
The Role of Prenatal Maternal Stress in Child Development
The Psychobiology of Stress
Novelty Seeking and Reward: Implications for the Study of High-RiskBehaviors
Moving Beyond the Heritability Question: New Directions in BehavioralGenetic Studies of Personality
Personality In Action: Intrapersonal Processes
Emotion Regulation in Adulthood: Timing is Everything
Dynamic Integration: Affect, Cognition, and the Self in Adulthood
Personality as Performance: Categorization Tendencies and TheirCorrelates
Personality, Strategic Behavior, and Daily-Life ProblemSolving
Seeking Truth Finding Despair: Some Unhappy Consequences of a Negative Self-Concept
Self-Esteem, Narcissism, andAggression: Does Violence Result From Low Self-Esteem or From Threatened Egotism
Personality In Relational Contexts
Temperament and Attachment: Individuals and Relationships
The Social-Cognitive Model of Transference: Experiencing Past Relationships in the Present
Making Sense of Self-Esteem
Siblings' Direct and Indirect Contributions to Child Development
Marital Conflict: Correlates, Structure, and Context
Forgiveness: Who Does It and How Do They Do It?
Implications of Personality For Well-Being
Resilience in Development
Loneliness and Peer Relations in Childhood
Stress, Positive Emotion, and Coping
Fleeting Signs of the Course of Life: Facial Expression and Personal Adjustment
Happy as an Extraverted Clam? The Role of Personality for Subjective Well-Being
Intelligence Predicts Health and Longevity, but Why?
Thin-Ideal Internalization: Mounting Evidence for a New Risk Factor for Body-Image Disturbance and Eating Pathology
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