Experiences in Personality Research,

This book covering all the standard topics in personality offers readings and active learning exercises. It gives readers the opportunity to become closely involved with the dynamic research and applied issues in the psychology of personality.

Matthew R. Merrens and Gary G. Brannigan are the authors of Experiences in Personality: Research, Assessment, and Change, published by Wiley.

INTRODUCTION

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CHAPTER 1: STUDYING PERSONALITY

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(30)

INTRODUCTION

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(1)

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 1.1: The Power of Folk Wisdom

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(2)

READING: You Know What They Say

5

(3)

Alfie Kohn

READING: Fortune-Tellers Never Starve

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(5)

William Lindsay Gresham

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 1.2: Personality Interpretation of a College Student

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(2)

SPOTLIGHT: The Barnum Effect

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(2)

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 1.3: The Barnum Effect

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(6)

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 1.4: A Personal Personality Theory

23

(4)

SPOTLIGHT: Personality Assessment

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(2)

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 1.5: Self-Ratings

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(3)

CHAPTER 2: CLASSICAL PSYCHOANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVE

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(26)

INTRODUCTION

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(1)

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 2.1: Beliefs about Freudian Principles:

33

(3)

READING: The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis

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(4)

Sigmund Freud

SPOTLIGHT: Coping with Disaster

40

(1)

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 2.2: Assessment of Defenses

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(5)

SPOTLIGHT: Humor

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(1)

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 2.3: Dream Analysis

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(2)

READING: What I Meant To Say

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(4)

Michael T. Motley

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 2.4: Personality Assessment

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(5)

CHAPTER 3: NEO-FREUDIAN AND CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVES

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(30)

INTRODUCTION

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(1)

READING: Frankenstein: An Adlerian Odyssey

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(6)

R. John Huber

Joan Widdifield

Charles L. Johnson

SPOTLIGHT: Moving Against

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(2)

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 3.1: Birth Order

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(4)

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 3.2: Early Recollections

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(4)

SPOTLIGHT: Jungian Typology

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(2)

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 3.3: Identity

77

(2)

SPOTLIGHT: Intimacy versus Isolation

79

(1)

READING: The Evolutionary Functions of Repression and the Ego Defenses

80

(8)

Randolph M. Nesse

CHAPTER 4: TRAIT, MOTIVE, AND NEED PERSPECTIVES

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(30)

INTRODUCTION

88

(1)

READING: Validation of the Five-Factor Model of Personality across Instruments and Observers

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(6)

Robert R. McCrae

Paul T. Costa, Jr.

SPOTLIGHT: Neuroticism

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(1)

READING: Hotheads and Heart Attacks

96

(4)

Edward Dolnick

SPOTLIGHT: Men, Women, and Anger

100

(1)

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 4.1: Hostility

101

(2)

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 4.2: Personal Beliefs and Attitudes

103

(2)

READING: What Some People Won't Do for Approval

105

(3)

Gary G. Brannigan

Stanley W. Johnson

SPOTLIGHT: The Leadership Motive

108

(1)

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 4.3: Self-Monitoring and Dating Relationships

109

(9)

CHAPTER 5: GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES

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(26)

INTRODUCTION

118

(1)

READING: My Genes Made Me Do It!

119

(8)

Stanton Peele

Richard DeGranpre

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 5.1: Sensation-Seeking Scale

127

(1)

READING: The Search for High Sensation

128

(5)

Marvin Zuckerman

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 5.2: Evolutionary Perspectives Questionnaire

133

(2)

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 5.3: Evolutionary Perspectives on Choosing a Mate

135

(2)

READING: The Strategies of Human Mating

137

(7)

David M. Buss

CHAPTER 6: BEHAVIORAL PERSPECTIVES

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(28)

INTRODUCTION

144

(1)

READING Conditioned Emotional Reactions

145

(4)

John B. Watson

Rosalie Rayner

READING: The Watson of Oz

149

(2)

Matthew R. Merrens

Charles R. Potkay

SPOTLIGHT: Behaviorism

151

(1)

READING: The Town B.F. Skinner Boxed

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(5)

Steve Fishman

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 6.1: Observing and Recording a Personal Behavior

157

(4)

READING: Imitation of Film-Mediated Aggressive Models

161

(4)

Albert Bandura

Dorothea Ross

Sheila Ross

SPOTLIGHT: On Screen, In Life

165

(2)

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 6.2: Assertiveness

167

(5)

CHAPTER 7: HUMANISTIC PERSPECTIVE

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(34)

INTRODUCTION

172

(1)

READING: Humanistic Theory: The Third Revolution in Psychology

173

(6)

Floyd W. Matson

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 7.1: Q-Sort

179

(8)

SPOTLIGHT: Self-Ideal Congruence

187

(2)

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 7.2: Self-Actualization

189

(2)

SPOTLIGHT: Self-disclosure

191

(2)

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 7.3: Peak Experience

193

(3)

SPOTLIGHT: Whatever Turns You On

196

(1)

READING: The Meaning of Personal Growth

197

(9)

Abe Arkoff

CHAPTER 8: COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVES

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(18)

INTRODUCTION

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(1)

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 8.1: Life Orientation Test

207

(2)

READING: On the Power of Positive Thinking: The Benefits of Being Optimistic

209

(4)

Michael F. Scheier

Charles S. Carver

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 8.2: Internal-External Locus of Control

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(2)

READING: External Control and Internal Control

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(4)

Julian B. Rotter

SPOTLIGHT: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

219

(2)

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE 8.3: Rational-Emotive Therapy

221

(3)

EPILOGUE

224

(1)

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE E.1: A Personal Personality Theory

225

(6)

ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISE E.2: Self-Ratings

231

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