{"product_id":"the-person-isbn-9781119705062","title":"The Person","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe latest edition of a leading and engaging discussion of personality psychology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the newly revised, sixth edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Person: A New Introduction to Personality Psychology\u003c\/i\u003e, a team of distinguished researchers delivers an engaging and personal introduction to personality science as it is currently expressed in contemporary research and theory and in the context of specific individual lives. The authors show how cutting edge research and theory help us understand the complex dynamics of real human lives, including the life of the reader. They also present a developmental perspective from which to understand personality. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book includes the presentation of 29 individual case studies of well-known personalities, from Lady Gaga to Charles Darwin, each of which illustrates a key area or idea in personality psychology. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing the development of personality from the display of infantile temperament traits through the evolution of a person's life goals, values, and integrative stories that we construct and internalize to make narrative sense of our lives, \u003ci\u003eThe Person\u003c\/i\u003e also includes: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA thoroughly engaging story about what it means to be a good person and how people are different from one another \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eComprehensive explorations of the latest research in personality science as applied to case studies of contemporary and historical persons \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePractical discussions of how both human evolution and human culture shape our lives \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA literate and compelling style that engages the reader in a personal relationship with the authors \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e Perfect for undergraduate students of personality psychology, \u003ci\u003eThe Person: A New Introduction to Personality Psychology\u003c\/i\u003e will aso benefit non-psychology majors and a broad audience of students and laypeople with an interest in what makes different personalities unique and interesting.  \u003cp\u003eAbout the Authors v\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Studies xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Personality, Human Nature, and Culture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Persons 2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Evolution of Human Nature 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Social Learning and Culture 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II the Person as Social Actor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Dispositional Traits 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Emotional Life: Extraversion and Neuroticism 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Self- Regulation: Agreeableness and Conscientiousness 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Expanding Your Mind: Openness to Experience 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Stability and Change in Personality Traits 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III the Person as Motivated Agent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Human Motivation: Needs and Goals 252\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Moral Animal 287\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Self and Other 318\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV the Person as Autobiographical Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Life Stories 358\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Narrative, Culture, and the Adult Life Course 392\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Psychological Biography and the Narrative Study of Lives 427\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Application to the Clinical Realm\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e15 Personality Disorder 466\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary G- 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences R- 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCredits C- 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eName Index I- 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject Index I- 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDan P. McAdams\u003c\/b\u003e is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University. He received his doctorate from Harvard University in Psychology and Social Relations, with a concentration in Personality and Developmental Psychology. The author of nearly 300 articles and chapters and 8 books, McAdams has conducted research in the areas of narrative identity, generativity, leadership, psychological biography, culture and the self, and themes of power, love, redemption and contamination in human lives. In the 1990s and early 2000s, he pioneered and established the life-story approach to the study of personality and life-span developmental psychology. His book, \u003ci\u003eThe Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford University Press, 2006) won the American Psychological Association's William James Award for the best general-interest book published in psychology in 2006. He is also the winner of the Jack Block Award for career contributions to personality psychology, the Henry A. Murray Award for excellence in the study of lives, and the Theodore Sarbin Award for contributions to philosophical and theoretical psychology. McAdams is the author most recently of \u003ci\u003eThe Art and Science of Personality Development\u003c\/i\u003e (2015, Guilford Press) and the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eThe Strange Case of Donald J. Trump: A Psychological Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford University Press).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam L. Dunlop\u003c\/b\u003e was an associate professor of psychology at University of California, Riverside, and a visiting professor at Aarhus University in Denmark, before his death in September of 2021. He was a leading authority on the study of meaning making, life narrative, volitional personality change, idiographic and nomothetic methods in personality science, the contetualization of personality and identity, and the development of personal relationships. Professor Dunlop was named a Rising Star by the Association for Research in Personality. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990309191909,"sku":"NP9781119705062","price":78.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119705062.jpg?v=1761787298","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-person-isbn-9781119705062","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}