The Person: An Introduction to Personality Psychology

Abstract

Part I: The Background: Persons, Human Nature, and Culture Chapter 1: Studying the Person Chapter 2: Evolution and Nature Chapter 3: Social Learning and Nature Part II: Sketching the Outline: Dispositional Traits and the Prediction of Behavior Chapter 4: Personality Traits: Fundamental Concepts and Issues Chapter 5: Five Basic Traits Chapter 6: Traits Across the Lifespan: Continity and Change Part III: Filling in the Details: Characteristc Adaptations to Life Tasks Chapter 7: Motives and Goals: What Do We Want in Life? Chapter 8: Self and Others: Social - Cognitive Aspects of Personality Chapter 9: Developmental Stages and Tasks Part IV: Making a Life: The Stories We Live By Chapter 10: Life Scripts, Life Stories Chapter 11: Interpreting People's Stories: From Freud to Feminism Chapter 12: Writing Stories of Lives: Biography and the Life Course Summary Glossary References