Personality category: 1900 books

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What Makes People Tick

How to Understand Yourself and Others

by Des Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014

This is Australia’s quiet best-selling book and practical guide to self-discovery and personal growth. In it you will discover: • Your own personality style and the style of those you live and work with • How to see yourself as others see you • The strengths, shortcomings...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008

This authoritative handbook is the reference of choice for researchers and students of personality. Leading authorities describe the most important theoretical approaches in personality and review the state of the science in five broad content areas: biological bases; development; self and social...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014

The first edition of Personality Assessment provided an overview of the most popular self-report and performance-based personality assessment instruments. The chapter authors were key members in creating or developing the research base for the eight test instruments covered in the book. The text was...
Cover of Personality Tests and Assessments (Psychology Revivals)
by Philip E. Vernon
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014

Originally published in 1953 this book provided the first comprehensive account of methods of personality assessment by a British author. It starts with a short survey of personality theory, pointing out the difficulties in any method of testing or assessment. Next it describes the weaknesses of the...
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Personal Project Pursuit

Goals, Action, and Human Flourishing

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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017

Personal Project Pursuit is the first book to feature Brian Little's highly respected personal projects analysis (PPA), one of the pioneering theories in contemporary personality and motivational psychology. The book examines both the internal and external dynamics of personal goals and projects and...
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Theory Construction in Social Personality Psychology

Personal Experiences and Lessons Learned: A Special Issue of personality and Social Psychology Review

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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016

This special issue features papers that offer deeply felt, valuable perspectives on diverse aspects of theory construction in social-personality psychology. The goal is to furnish a basis for starting a discussion about the considerable challenges of theorizing, the ways of meeting those challenges, and the great rewards that successful theorizing offers to the discipline as a whole.
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The Revolutionary Totalitarian Personality

Hitler, Mao, Castro, and Chávez

by Theodor Tudoroiu
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017

This book uses the case studies of Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, and Hugo Chávez in order to introduce the concept of revolutionary totalitarian personality, and to show that this type of personality is decisive in choosing a totalitarian regime-building project and in shaping the ensuing totalitarian process.
Cover of The Personality of Henry Cavendish - A Great Scientist with Extraordinary Peculiarities
by Russell McCormmach
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014

Profiles the eminent 18th century natural philosopher Henry Cavendish, best known for his work in chemistry and physics and one of the most baffling personalities in the history of science. In these chapters we are introduced to the psychology of science and of scientists and we learn about Cavendish’s...
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Antisocial Personality Disorder

A Practitioner's Guide to Comparative Treatments

by Frederick Rotgers, PsyD, ABPP
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005

Patients with antisocial personality disorder (APD) have traditionally been considered difficult ot treat, or even untreatable, with psychotherapy. Recent clinical and research developments, however, have begun to change this view. In this book. both experienced and novice clinicians will gain an...
Cover of Borderline Personality Disorder: New Perspectives on a Stigmatizing and Overused Diagnosis
by Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Brent Potter
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014

The patterns of behavior of those with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are often frustrating and mystifying to both clinicians and family members, despite several decades of study and research on this form of distress. Borderline Personality Disorder: New Perspectives on a Stigmatizing and Overused...
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Borderline Personality Disorder

A Practitioner's Guide to Comparative Treatments

by Arthur Freeman, EdD, ABPP
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2007

Within the field of clinical psychology, the term borderline personality disorder was developed to fulfill a diagnostic need and has come to possess specific stereotypes and negative meanings. Because the term borderline is an emotionally charged word, it can lead to a less-than-accurate view of the...
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Social and Personality Development

An Evolutionary Synthesis

by Kevin B. MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

This volume is an attempt to integrate the theory and data of social and personality development within a modem evolutionary framework. The various chapters are not meant to be read in isolation from one another but rather are intended to form an integrated whole. There is thus a great deal of cross-referencing...
Cover of Personality and Well-being Across the Life-Span
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016

Both an individual's personality and well-being are important throughout their lives. This book explores the current research on links between personality predictors of well-being and social adjustment using empirical studies to suggest that their influence can vary depending on the key developmental stage.
Cover of Borderline Bodies: Affect Regulation Therapy for Personality Disorders (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
by Clara Mucci
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018

A bold look at the body as a source of contention for those who suffer from personality disorders. This work connects interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory, and psychoanalytic theory with cognitive and neuroscientific work on implicit memory, trauma theory, and dissociation to propose...
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