Reviews for The Person: A New Introduction to Personality Psychology

The average rating for The Person: A New Introduction to Personality Psychology based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-12-10 00:00:00 Derek CommonCobin 2016.01.02–2016.01.17 Contents McAdams DP (2014) Person, The - An Introduction to the Science of Personality Psychology Part I: The Background: Persons, Human Nature, and Culture 01. Studying the Person • What Do We Know When We Know a Person? • • Sketching an Outline: Dispositional Traits • • Filling in the Details: Characteristic Adaptations • • Constructing a Story: Integrative Life Narratives • Science and the Person • • Step 1: Unsystematic Observation • • Step 2: Building Theories • • Step 3: Evaluating Propositions • • • Setting Up an Empirical Study • • • The Correlational Design • • • The Experimental Design • Personality Psychology • • The Past and the Present • • • Feature 1.A: Gordon Allport and the Origins of Personality Psychology 02. Evolution and Human Nature • On Human Nature: Our Evolutionary Heritage • • Principles of Evolution • • The Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness • • • Feature 2.A: The Evolution of Religion • • The Adapted Mind • • Mating • • Getting Along and Getting Ahead • • • Feature 2.B: Some Women (and Men) Are Choosier Than Others: Sociosexuality • Hurting, Helping, and Loving: Three Faces of Human Nature • • Aggression • • Altruism • • Attachment 03. Social Learning and Culture • Behaviorism and Social-Learning Theory • • American Environmentalism: The Behaviorist Tradition • • Expectancies and Values • • Bandura's Social-Learning Theory • • • Observational Learning • • • Self-Efficacy • The Social Ecology of Human Behavior • • • Feature 3.A: How Should Parents Raise Their Children? • • Microcontexts: The Social Situation • • Macrocontexts: Social Structure • • Culture • • • Individualism and Collectivism • • • Modernity • • • Feature 3.B: Race and Personality in the United States • • History Part II: Sketching the Outline: Dispositional Traits and the Prediction of Behavior 04. Personality Traits: Fundamental Concepts and Issues • The Idea of Trait • • What Is a Trait? • • A Brief History of Traits • • • Gordon Allport • • • Raymond B. Cattell • • • Hans Eysenck • • The Big Five and Related Models • • • Feature 4.A: What is Your Type? The Scientific Status of the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator • Measuring Traits • • Constructing a Trait Measure • • Criteria of a Good Measure • • Trait Inventories • • • Feature 4.B: Narcissism: The Trait of Excessive Self-Love • • Personality Traits and Personality Disorders • The Controversy Over Traits • • Mischel's Critique • • Aggregating Behaviors • • Interactionism • • • Persons versus Situations versus Interactions • • • Reciprocal Interactionism • • • Traits as Conditional Statements 05. Five Basic Traits – In the Brain and in Behavior • E: Extraversion • • Social Behavior and Cognitive Performance • • Feeling Good • N: Neuroticism • • • Feature 5.A: Extreme Sports and the Sensation-Seeking Trait • • The Many Ways to Feel Bad • • Stress and Coping • • • Feature 5.B: Are We Living in the Age of Anxiety? • Extraversion and Neuroticism in the Brain • • Eysenck and the Theory of Arousal • • The Behavioral Approach System • • The Behavioral Inhibition System • • Left and Right • O: Openness to Experience • • Correlates of O • • The Authoritarian Personality • C and A: Conscientiousness and Agreeableness • • Work • • Love • • Life • • • Feature 5.C: Eysenck's Psychoticism: Low A, Low C, and Some Other Bad Things 06. Continuity and Change in Traits: The Roles of Genes, Environments, and Time • The Continuity of Traits • • Two Kinds of Continuity • • Differential Continuity in the Adult Years • • Childhood Precursors: From Temperament to Traits • The Origins of Traits: Genes and Environments • • The Logic of Twin and Adoption Studies • • Heritability Estimates of Traits • • Shared Environment • • Nonshared Environment • • • Feature 6.A: A Nonshared Environmental Effect • • How Genes Shape Environments • • Gene x Environment Interactions: New Findings from Neuroscience • Change and Complexity • • Different Meanings of Change • • Trait Change in the Adult Years • • Patterns of Traits Over Time • • What Else Might Change? • • • Feature 6.B: Happiness Over the Human Lifespan Part III: Filling in the Details: Characteristic Adaptations to Life Tasks 07. Motives and Goals: What Do We Want in Life? • The Psychoanalytic View • • The Unconscious • • • Feature 7.A: Sigmund Freud and the Birth of Psychoanalysis • • • Repression and Repressors • • • The Ego's Defenses • The Humanistic View • • Carl Rogers's Theory • • Abraham Maslow's Psychology of Being • • Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination Theory • The Diversity View • • Henry Murray's Theory of Needs • • The TAT and the PSE • • Achievement Motivation • • Power Motivation • • Intimacy Motivation • • Implicit and Self-Attributed Motives • • Personalized Goals 08. Self and Other: Social-Cognitive Aspects of Personality • The Psychology of Personal Contructs • • George Kelly's Theory • • Exploring Personal Constructs: The Rep Test • Cognitive Styles and Personality • • Field Independence–Dependence • • Integrative Complexity • Social-Cognitive Theory and the Person • • • Feature 8.A: Religious Values and Personality • • Social Intelligence • • Self-Schemas • • Possible Selves: What I Might Be; What I Might Have Been • • Discrepancies Among Selves • • Schemas, Attributions, and Explanatory Style: The Case of Depression • • • Feature 8.B: The Positive Psychology of Virtue: Gratitude as an Example • • Mental Representations of Others: Attachment in Adulthood 09. Developmental Stages and Tasks • Martin Luther's Identity Crisis • Erik Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development • • Developmental Stages in Childhood • • • Feature 9.A: Early Object Relations • • The Problem of Identity • • • Adolescence and Young Adulthood • • • Identity Statuses • • • Identity and Intimacy • • Generativity and Adult Development • • • A Model of Generativity • • • Individual Differences in Generativity • • • Integrity • Jane Loevinger's Theory of Ego Development • • Stages of the Ego • • • The Infant • • • The Child • • • The Adolescent • • • The Adult • • Measuring Ego Development Part IV: Making a Life: The Stories We Live By 10. Life Scripts, Life Stories • The Meaning of Stories • • The Narrating Mind • • Healing and Integration • Feeling and Story: Tomkin's Script Theory • • Affects • • Scenes and Scripts • • • Basic Concepts • • • Types of Scripts • Narrative Identity • • Development of the Life Story • • • Feature 10.A: Time and Story in Bali • • Culture and Narrative • • Story Themes and Episodes • • Types of Stories • • What Is a Good Story? • • • Feature 10.B: When Did Identity Become a Problem? 11. The Interpretation of Stories: From Freud to Today • Freudian Interpretation • • The Story of Oedipus • • A Case of Oedipal Dynamics: The Death of Yukio Mishima • • The Case of Dora • • • Feature 11.A: An Alternative Take on Oedipus: Chodorow's Gender Theory • • • Two Traumatic Events • • • The Dream of the Jewel-Case • • • Dora Revisited • • Principles of Interpretation • • • Text and Treaty • • • Manifest and Latent • • • Symptoms and Everyday Life • The Jungian Approach: Myth and Symbol • • A Collective Unconscious • • Individuation and the Heroic Quest • • Interpreting a Dream Series • Adler: Beginnings and Endings • • Individual Psychology • • The Earliest Memory • • Fictional Finalism • Lives as Texts • • Hermans's Dialogical Self • • Music and Story: Gregg's Approach • • The Postmodern Self • • Feminist Perspectives 12. Writing Stories of Lives: Biography and Life Course • Icarus: An Ancient Story • Personology and the Study of Lives • • Murray and the Harvard Psychological Clinic • • The Personological Tradition • • Science and the Single Case • Biography, Narrative, and Lives • • Psychobiography • • • Feature 12.A: Studying Famous People in History • • • Feature 12.B: Why Did van Gogh Cut Off His Ear? • • The Seasons of Adult Life • • The Life Course Glossary References Credits Name Index Subject Index

Review # 2 was written on 2020-06-15 00:00:00 Tuan Nguyen Full disclosure, I did not read all of this, because it was a textbook. However, I do plan on reading it in chunks as needed. I like how clear the writing is and how well the examples fit.