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The Person: A New Introduction to Personality Psychology, 4th Edition
The Person: A New Introduction to Personality Psychology, 4th Edition
Dan P. McAdams, Northwestern Univ.
ISBN: 978-0-471-71699-0
©2006
624 pages
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Detailed Contents
Part I: The Background: Persons, Human Nature, and Culture

Chapter 1: Studying the Person

Chapter 2: Evolution and Nature

Chapter 3: Social Learning and Nature

Part II: Sketching the Outline: Dispositional Traits and the Prediction of Behavior

Chapter 4: Personality Traits: Fundamental Concepts and Issues

Chapter 5: Five Basic Traits

Chapter 6: Traits Across the Lifespan: Continity and Change

Part III: Filling in the Details: Characteristc Adaptations to Life Tasks

Chapter 7: Motives and Goals: What Do We Want in Life?

Chapter 8: Self and Others: Social -
Cognitive Aspects of Personality

Chapter 9: Developmental Stages and Tasks

Part IV: Making a Life: The Stories We Live By

Chapter 10: Life Scripts, Life Stories

Chapter 11: Interpreting People's Stories: From Freud to Feminism

Chapter 12: Writing Stories of Lives: Biography and the Life Course

Summary

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