Virture, Vice and Personality: The Complexity of Behavior

by Chang, Edward C.

• ISBN13: 9781591470137
• ISBN10: 1591470137
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

Summary

Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Text reflects the ideas of leading personality experts to consider alternative ways for understanding some of the personality variables and their presumed association with adjustment or maladjustment Discusses self-esteem, optimism, intelligence. and personal control. For researchers and practitioners.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Foreword	xi
C.R. Snyder
Preface	xv
Introduction Beyond Virtue and Vice in Personality: Classical Themes and Current Trends	xix
Part I. Positive Personalities: When Virtue Can Become Vice	1	(88)
High Self-Esteem: A Differentiated Perspective	3	(20)
Michael H. Kernis
Optimism as Virtue and Vice	23	(16)
Christopher Peterson
Robert S. Vaidya
Intelligence: Can One Have Too Much of a Good Thing?	39	(14)
Robert J. Sternberg
The Hazards of Goal Pursuit	53	(18)
Laura A. King
Chad M. Burton
The Virtues and Vices of Personal Control	71	(18)
Michael J. Strube
J. Scott Hanson
Laurel Newman
Part II. Negative Personalities: When Vice Can Become Virtue	89	(74)
Pessimism: Accentuating the Positive Possibilities	91	(14)
Julie K. Norem
Rumination, Imagination, and Personality: Specters of the Past and Future in the Present	105	(20)
Lawrence J. Sanna
Shevaun L. Stocker
Jennifer A. Clarke
On the Perfectibility of the Individual: Going Beyond the Dialectic of Good Versus Evil	125	(20)
Edward C. Chang
Neuroticism: Adaptive and Maladaptive Features	145	(18)
David Watson
Alex Casillas
Part III. Further Thoughts	163	(18)
Going Beyond (While Remaining Connected to) Personality as Virtue and Vice	165	(12)
Howard Tennen
Glenn Affleck
Beyond Virtue and Vice in Personality: Some Final Thoughts	177	(4)
Lawrence J. Sanna
Edward C. Chang
Index	181	(8)
About the Editors	189