The Personality Puzzle
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ISBN: 0393928586 / Publisher: W W Norton & Company, March 2007
The Personality Puzzle
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Armed with a portfolio of cartoons, clinical photographs, and illustrations, Funder (psychology, U. of California, Riverside) continues his tradition of explaining how personality (patterns of thought, emotion and behavior along with their psychological underpinnings) relates to that odd experience called "life." He thoroughly updates his material according to the most recent findings as he examines research methods in personality, trait approaches, biological approaches, humanistic and cross-cultural psychology, and the role personality plays in learning, thinking, feeling and knowing. Along the way he describes the basic sources of data in the study of personality and the study as a science, the consequences of personality testing, using personality traits to understand behavior, the workings of the unconscious mind according to Freud and those who followed, the validity of experience and the meaning of life, culturally-inspired variations in personality, learning to be a person, processes, and what you really know about yourself. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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