Readings in Personality : Classic Theories and Modern Research Book

Preface

UNIT ONE: PSYCHOANALYTIC ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY

FREUD: The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis - NEW!

WOLPE and RACHMAN: Psychoanalytic “Evidence”: A Critique Based on Freud’s Case of Little Hans

FREUD: The Interpretation of Dreams

MASSON: The Assault on Truth: Freud’s Suppression of the Seduction Theory

MURRAY: What Should Psychologists Do About Psychoanalysis - NEW!

UNIT TWO: NEO-ANALYTIC AND EGO ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY: IDENTITY

JUNG: The Conception of the Unconscious

ADLER: The Neurotic Constitution: The Origin and Development of the Feeling of Inferiority

HORNEY: The Goals of Analytic Therapy

ERIKSON: The Life Cycle: Epigenesis of Identity

SWANN: THE Trouble with Change: Self-verification and Allegiance to the Self - NEW!

MITCHELL: Recent Developments in Psychoanalytic Theorizing - NEW!

UNIT THREE: BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY

GALTON: Measurement of Character - NEW!

TERMAN: The Intelligence Quotient of Francis Galton in Childhood - NEW!

EYSENCK: Dimensions of Personality: The Biosocial Approach to Personality

PEELE AND DEGRANDPRE: My Genes Made Me Do It!

DALY AND WILSON: Violence against Stepchildren

BUSS, LARSEN, WESTEN, AND SEMMELROTH: Sex Differences in Jealousy: Evolution, Physiology, and Psychology

GOULD: Exaptation: A Crucial Tool for an Evolutionary Psychology

PLOMIN and NEIDERHISER: Genetics and Experience - NEW!

CASPI: The Child is Father of the Man: Personality Continuities from Childhood to Adulthood - NEW!

UNIT FOUR: BEHAVIORIST AND LEARNING ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY

WATSON and RAYNER: Conditioned Emotional Reactions

SKINNER: Intellectual Self-Management in Old Age

ROGERS and SKINNER: Some Issues Concerning the Control of Human Behavior: A Symposium - NEW!

MILLER and DOLLARD: Learning: Its Conditions and Principles - NEW!

UNIT FIVE: COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY

KELLY: Personal Construct Theory and the Psychotherapeutic Interview

ROTTER: External Control and Internal Control

BANDURA: Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory

BANDURA: Exercise of Human Agency through Collective Efficacy - NEW!

PETERSON, SELIGMAN, YURKO, MARTIN, and FRIEDMAN: Catastrophizing and Untimely Death

UNIT SIX: TRAIT AND SKILL ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY

ALLPORT: Traits Revisited

MCCRAE and COSTA: Validation of the Five-Factor Model of Personality across Instruments and Observers

CATELL: Personality Pinned Down

GOSLING and JOHN: Personality Dimensions in Nonhuman Animals: A Cross-Species Review

UNIT SEVEN: HUMANISTIC AND EXISTENTIAL ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY

ROGERS: What Understanding and Acceptance Mean to Me

FROMM: Love and Its Disintegration in Contemporary Western Society

MASLOW: Self-Actualization and Beyond - NEW!

MAY: Existential Bases of Psychotherapy

FRANKL: The Will to Meaning - NEW!

ABE: The Self in Jung and Zen - NEW!

MYERS: Hope and Happiness - NEW!

UNIT EIGHT: PERSON-SITUATION INTERACTIONIST ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY

SULLIVAN: A Note on Formulating the Relationship of the Individual and the Group

MEAD: The Social Self - NEW!

MISCHEL: Convergences and Challenges in the Search for Consistency

FUNDER: Global Traits: A Neo-Allportian Approach to Personality

UNIT NINE: APPLICATIONS TO INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

COSTA, TERRACIANO, and McCRAE: Gender Differences in Personality Traits across Cultures: Robust and Surprising Findings - NEW!

FRIEDMAN, TUCKER, SCHWARTZ, TOMLINSON-KEASEY, MARTIN, WINGARD, and CRIQUI: Psychosocial and Behavioral Predictors of Longevity: The Aging and Death of the “Termites”

STAUB: The Roots of Evil: Social Conditions, Culture, Personality, and Basic Human Needs

TWENGE: Birth Cohort Changes in Extraversion: A Cross Temporal Meta-Analysis, 1966-1993 - NEW!

HARITATOS and BENET-MARTINEZ: Bicultural Identities: The Interface of Cultural, Personality, and Socio-Cognitive Processes - NEW!

INDEX