Pieces of the Personality Puzzle: Readings in Theory and Research

by Funder, David C.; Ozer, Daniel J.

• ISBN13: 9780393976830
• ISBN10: 0393976831
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

Offers information on the formation of personality, including to what extent environment and genetics affect its development.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Part I Research Methods	1	(68)
What Do We Know When We Know a Person?	3	(12)
McAdams, Dan P.
Studying Personality the Long Way	15	(8)
Block, Jack
A Simple, General-Purpose Display of Magnitude of Experimental Effect	23	(4)
Rosenthal
Robert
Rubin, Donald B.
Construct Validity in Psychological Tests	27	(9)
Cronbach, Lee J.
Meehl, Paul E.
Convergent and Discriminant Validation by the Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix	36	(9)
Campbell, Donald T.
Fiske, Donald W.
Conceptual Analysis of Psychological Test Scores and Other Diagnostic Variables	45	(9)
Gough, Harrison G.
Do People Know How They Behave? Self-Reported Act Frequencies Compared with On-line Codings by Observers	54	(15)
Gosling, Samuel D.
John, Oliver P.
Craik, Kenneth H.
Robins, Richard W.
Part II The Trait Approach to Personality	69	(64)
From The Last Hurrah	71	(2)
O'Connor, Edwin
What Is a Trait of Personality?	73	(4)
Allport, Gordon W.
Consistency and Specificity in Behavior	77	(14)
Mischel, Walter
Some Reasons for the Apparent Inconsistency of Personality	91	(3)
Block, Jack
Profiting From Controversy: Lessons From the Person-Situation Debate	94	(17)
Kenrick, Douglas T.
Funder, David C.
Self-Monitoring of Expressive Behavior	111	(9)
Snyder, Mark
A Five-Factor Theory of Personality	120	(13)
McCrae, Robert R.
Costa Jr., Paul T.
Part III Biological Approaches to Personality	133	(92)
The Temperaments	135	(7)
Wells, Samuel R.
Testosterone Differences Among College Fraternities: Well-Behaved vs. Rambunctious	142	(7)
Dabbs Jr.
James M.
Hargrove, Marian F.
Heusel, Colleen
Reward Deficiency Syndrome	149	(13)
Blum, Kenneth
Cull, John G.
Braverman, Eric R.
Comings, David E.
Genes, Environment, and Personality	162	(5)
Bouchard Jr., Thomas J.
Environment and Genes: Determinants of Behavior	167	(4)
Plomin, Robert
Sex Differences in Jealousy: Evolution, Physiology, and Psychology	171	(7)
Buss, David M.
Larsen, Randy J.
Westen, Drew
Semmelroth, Jennifer
Male Sexual Proprietariness and Violence Against Wives	178	(8)
Wilson, Margo I.
Daly, Martin
The Origins of Sex Differences in Human Behavior: Evolved Dispositions Versus Social Roles	186	(19)
Eagly, Alice H.
Wood, Wendy
Exotic Becomes Erotic: A Developmental Theory of Sexual Orientation	205	(20)
Bem, Daryl J.
Part IV The Psychoanalytic Approach to Personality	225	(68)
The Dissection of the Psychical Personality	227	(9)
Freud, Sigmund
Parapraxes	236	(9)
Freud, Sigmund
Survey of Objective Studies of Psychoanalytic Concepts: Conclusions	245	(5)
Sears, Robert R.
Freudian Defense Mechanisms and Empirical Findings in Modern Social Psychology: Reaction Formation, Projection, Displacement, Undoing, Isolation, Sublimation, and Denial	250	(16)
Baumeister, Roy F.
Dale, Karen
Sommer, Kristin L.
The Verdict on Freud	266	(6)
Crews, Frederick
Psychological Types	272	(5)
Jung, Carl
The Distrust Between the Sexes	277	(6)
Horney, Karen
Eight Stages of Man	283	(10)
Erikson, Erik
Part V Humanistic Approaches to Personality	293	(56)
The Humanism of Existentialism	295	(8)
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Existential Psychology-What's in It for Us?	303	(5)
Maslow, Abraham H.
Is the Concept of Self Necessary?	308	(7)
Allport, Gordon W.
A Theory of Human Motivation	315	(11)
Maslow, Abraham H.
Some Observations on the Organization of Personality	326	(12)
Rogers, Carl R.
If We Are So Rich, Why Aren't We Happy?	338	(11)
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly
Part VI Cross-cultural Approaches to Personality	349	(74)
Body Ritual Among the Nacirema	351	(4)
Miner, Horace
Exploring Implicit Personality Theories with Indigenous or Imported Constructs: The Chinese Case	355	(10)
Yang, Kuo-shu
Bond, Michael Harris
A Collective Fear of the Collective: Implications for Selves and Theories of Selves	365	(13)
Markus, Hazel Rose
Kitayama, Shinobu
The Self and Social Behavior in Differing Cultural Contexts	378	(16)
Triandis, Harry C.
Insult, Aggression, and the Southern Culture of Honor: An ``Experimental Ethnography''	394	(18)
Cohen, Dov
Nisbett, Richard E.
Bowdle, Brian F.
Schwarz, Norbert
The O. J. Simpson Verdict: Predictors of Beliefs About Innocence or Guilt	412	(11)
Murray, Carolyn B.
Kaiser, Robert
Taylor, Shelby
Part VII Behavioral and Social Learning Approaches to Personality	423	(34)
Why Organisms Behave	425	(8)
Skinner, B. F.
Whatever Happened to Psychology as the Science of Behavior?	433	(6)
Skinner, B. F.
An Introduction to Social Learning Theory	439	(9)
Rotter, Julian
Imitation of Film-Mediated Aggressive Models	448	(9)
Bandura, Albert
Ross, Dorothea
Ross, Sheila A.
Part VIII The Cognitive Approach to Personality	457	(76)
The Self System in Reciprocal Determinism	459	(13)
Bandura, Albert
Toward a Cognitive Social Learning Reconceptualization of Personality	472	(11)
Mischel, Walter
Cognitive Strategies as Personality: Effectiveness, Specificity, Flexibility, and Change	483	(11)
Norem, Julie K.
Integration of the Cognitive and the Psychodynamic Unconscious	494	(13)
Epstein, Seymour
Effects of Ruminative and Distracting Responses to Depressed Mood on Retrieval of Autobiographical Memories	507	(13)
Lyubomirsky, Sonja
Caldwell, Nicole D.
Nolen-Hoeksema, Susan
Self-Knowledge of an Amnesic Patient: Toward a Neuropsychology of Personality and Social Psychology	520	(13)
Klein, Stanley B.
Loftus, Judith
Kihlstrom, John F.
References for Editors' Notes	533	(2)
Permissions Acknowledgments	535