Perspectives on Personality describes a range of viewpoints that are used by personality psychologists today, and helps students understand how these viewpoints can be applied to their own lives. Authors Charles Carver and Michael Scheier dedicate a chapter to each major perspective, presenting an overview of the perspective’s orienting assumptions and core themes and concluding with a discussion of problems within that theoretical viewpoint and predictions about its future prospects. The Eighth Edition incorporates several important recent developments in the field, including genetics and genomics and the biological underpinnings of impulsiveness.
Features
Authors Charles Carver and Michael Scheier’s informal, conversational style is reader-friendly without sacrificing clarity or accuracy.
The authors provide a balanced approach to different perspectives and emphasize diversity among viewpoints, helping students achieve a thorough understanding of personality.
The text reflects the rapid advances in work on behavioral genetics, molecular genetics, temperament, neurotransmitters, and other biological processes and how they relate to personality.
The text covers the “new” behavioral genetics (genes correlating with and interacting with environments) and epigenetic influences on gene expression as well as discussion of future issues (“Problems and Prospects”) faced by differing viewpoints.
The text offers integrated coverage of adult attachment patterns and their implications for personality and social behavior, a hot topic in the field
About the Author
Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier met in graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin, where they both earned doctoral degrees in personality psychology. After graduation, they took positions at the University of Miami and Carnegie-Mellon University, respectively, where they have remained throughout their careers.
Table of Contents:
1. What Is Personality Psychology?
2. Methods in the Study of Personality
3. Issues in Personality Assessment
4. The Trait Perspective
5. The Motive Perspective
6. Genetics, Evolution, and Personality
7. Biological Processes and Personality
8. The Psychoanalytic Perspective
9. Psychosocial Theories
10. The Learning Perspective
11. Self-Actualization and Self-Determination
12. The Cognitive Perspective
13. The Self-Regulation Perspective
14. Personality in Perspective: Overlap and Integration
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