Readings in Personality

Table of Contents

• A Systems Organization
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INTRODUCTORY ISSUES

1. Reading Personality Psychology: Frequently Asked Questions

• What Does It Mean to Read Personality Psychology?
• Why Read Primary and Secondary Source Material?
• Concluding Comments
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2. Teaching Personality Psychology: The Professors’ Debate

• Reading a Professional Newsletter
• Teaching Personality (Brief comments by) M. Leary, J.D. Mayer, R. Hogan, R. Wheeler, R. Osborne, R. Baumeister, and D. Tice
• Concluding Comments
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3. Thinking Big about Personality Psychology

• Encountering the Big Picture
• What Do We Know When We Know a Person? D.P. Mcadams
• Concluding Comments
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4. The Proper Use of Psychological Tests: An Expert Speaks

• An Expert’s Expert
• What Counselors Should Know about the Use and Interpretation
• Psychological Tests A. Anastasi
• Concluding Comments
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PARTS OF PERSONALITY

5. Exploring Parts of Personality with a Quasi-Experimental Design

• Reading an Empirical Research Report
• Sensations Seeking and the Need for Achievement among Study-Abroad Students M. Schroth
• Concluding Comments
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6. Exploring Parts of Personality with a Field Study

• Reading about Field Study
• Study Habits and Eyesenck’s Theory of Extraversion-Introversion J. B. Campbell & C. Hawley
• Concluding Comments
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7. Reading Programmatic Research: Studies about the Self

• Reading Programmatic Research
• Possible Selves H. Markus And P. Nuris
• Concluding Comments
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8. How Good Is the Measure of the Parts?

• Reading a Test Review
• Review of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children J.P. Braden
• Concluding Comments
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9. Some Funny Stuff

• On Professional Humor
• The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory A. Rosen;
• A Brief Report on Clinical Aspects of Procrastination K. Alberding, D. Antonuccio, & B.H. Tearnan
• Concluding Comments
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PERSONALITY ORGANIZATION

10. Reading Freud on Psychodynamics

• Reading Freud and The Early-20th Century Grand Theorists
• Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis ( From Lectures II, III and IV) S. Freud
• Concluding Comments
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11. Personality Dynamics in a Clinical Case Study

• Reading a Case Study
• Possibly False Confession in a Military Court-Martial: A Case Study S. A. Talmadge
• Concluding Comments
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12. Dynamics of Self-Control

• Studying Personality Processes (Quasi-) Experimentally
• Defensive Self-Deception and Social Adaptation among Optimists J. Norem
• Concluding Comments
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13. Changing Personality

• Reading a Summary of Studies
• Writing about Emotional Experiences as a Therapeutic Process J. W. Pennebaker
• Concluding Comments
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PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

14. Studying Personality across Time

• Reading Longitudinal Research
• Transactional Links between Personality and Adaptation for Childhood through Adulthood R. Shiner and A. Masten
• Concluding Comments
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15. Reviewing a Book on Personality Developments

• Using Book Reviews
• Peering into the Nature-Nuture Debate W. Williams; Parents and Personality R. Plomin
• Concluding Comments
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16. A Stage Theory of Development

• Help from a Grand Theorist
• Eight Ages of Man E. Erikson
• Concluding Comments
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17. Re-Envisioning Development: Updating the Greats

• Reading Back to the Future
• Emerging Adulthood: A Theory of Development for the Late Teens through the Twenties J. J. Arnett
• Concluding Comments
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Editor’s References