Pioneers of personality science autobiographical perspectives

The field of personology or personality is enjoying great growth, spurred by findings from behavior genetics, evolutionary psychology, rethinking of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders definition of personality disorders, and advances in test construction and psychometrics . Th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Strack, Stephen (-), Kinder, Bill N., 1946-
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Springer Pub. Co c2006.
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798506706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents; Editors; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1 My Unexpected Life; 2 Pathways; 3 Discontinuities, Side Steps, and Finding a Proper Place: An Autobiographical Account; 4 A Report on Myself: The Science and/or Art of Assessment; 5 A Psychologist Grows in Brooklyn: Reflections from the Past; 6 A Lifelong Attempt to Understand and Assess Personality; 7 Over Half a Century of Playing with Inkblots and Other Wondrous Pursuits; 8 Have PhD, Will Travel; 9 From Freud to Gehrig to Rapaport to DiMaggio; 10 Confessions of an Iconoclast: At Home on the Fringe; 11 Speak, Memory, or Goodbye, Columbus
  • 12 A Blessed and Charmed Personal Odyssey13 Ideas from My Undergraduate Years: An Autobiographical Fragment; 14 Chance and Choice: Change and Continuity: That's Life; 15 The Shaping of Personality: Genes, Environments, and Chance Encounters; Index