Personality

This successful text puts "personality" back into the personality course, integrating the classic insights of the personality theorists with modern research in a manner that will fascinate and encourage deeper thought. This text explores classic theory from a perspective that encourages critical thinking and fosters intellectual insight with respect to human nature. For example, it shows the relevance of classic theory to topics of personality and culture, evolution, ego, gender, and person-situation interactionism. Employing the highest scientific standards, Personality also uses a wide range of unique and provocative pedagogical devices that have been shown to motivate students. Hailed as the best-written, most relevant personality textbook on the market, Friedman and Schustack's fifth edition brings the field of personality to today's diverse student body.Part I Introduction Chapter 1 What Is Personality? Chapter 2 How Is Personality Studied and Assessed? Part IIEight Basic Aspects of Personality Chapter 3 Psychoanalytic Aspects of Personality Chapter 4 Neo-Analytic and Ego Aspects of Personality: Identity Chapter 5 Biological Aspects of Personality Chapter 6 Behaviorist and Learning Aspects of Personality Chapter 7 Cognitive and Social-Cognitive Aspects of Personality Chapter 8 Humanistic, Existential, and Positive Aspects of Personality Chapter 9 Person-Situation Interactionist Aspects of Personality Part IIIApplications to Individual Differences Chapter 10 Male-Female Differences Chapter 11 Stress, Adjustment, and Health Differences Chapter 12 Culture, Religion, and Ethnicity: Processes and Differences Chapter 13 Love and Hate Part IVConclusion and Outlook for the Future Chapter 14 Where Will We Find Personality?