Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge about Human Nature - Hardcover

Larsen, Randy J; Buss PH.D., Professor Of Psychology David M

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0072996145 ISBN 13: 9780072996142

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2004

Synopsis

Organizing content into six domains of personality functioning (dispositional, biological, intrapsychic, cognitive/experiential, social and cultural, and adjustment), this book interweaves research with classic and modern theories within the context of each of the domains. It includes a restructuring of material, and uses a four-color design.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Eid, DSc, is Professor of Psychology at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. Dr. Eid is currently Editor of "Methodology--European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social Sciences" and Associate Editor of the Journal of Positive Psychology. His main research interests are subjective well-being, mood regulation, multimethod measurement, and longitudinal data analysis.
Randy J. Larsen, PhD, is the William R. Stuckenberg Professor of Human Values and Moral Development and Chair of the Psychology Department at Washington University in St. Louis. He conducts research on emotion, primarily in terms of differences between people, and studies such topics as subjective well-being, mood variability, jealousy, attraction, depression, and strategies for the self-management of self-esteem and emotion. Dr. Larsen is an elected member of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology and is listed as one of the highly cited psychologists by the Institute for Scientific Information.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072996145
• ISBN 13: 9780072996142
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 651