Personality: Classic Theories and Modern Research - Hardcover

Friedman, Howard S.; Schustack, Miriam W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0205139531 ISBN 13: 9780205139538

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 1998

Synopsis

How did Madonna transform from small-town girl to Material Girl? What drove Lorena Bobbit to her breaking point? Were people like these molded by their environment, or is their something inherent in one's personality that motivates certain behavioral patterns? Friedman and Schustack frame their book around the eight basic aspects of personality, using these principles to show the various ways our human complexity forms from developmental influences, such as biological predispositions, cognitive structures, and situational demands. Vignettes about modern cultural figures, along with substantial integration of cross-cultural and women's issues, build on the field of personality theory to provide a modern view that will challenge and fascinate all readers. Organized from the viewpoint that personality has eight basic aspects: psychoanalytic, ego, biological, behaviorist, cognitive, trait, humanistic, and situational. Psychologists and anyone else interested in issues of personality formation and development.

About this title

About the Author:

Howard S. Friedman is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, where he studies personality and health. Dr. Friedman was awarded UCR’s Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2000 he was named Outstanding Teacher by the Western Psychological Association (WPA). He is an elected Fellow of the Division of Personality and Social Psychology and the Division of Health Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He received the 2007-2008 James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science (APS), which recognizes a lifetime of outstanding contributions to the area of applied psychological research. An honors graduate of Yale University, Friedman received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

 

Miriam W. Schustack is Professor of Psychology at the California State University in San Marcos (near San Diego), where she currently specializes in individual differences and the use of computers in learning. She previously taught at Harvard University. An honors graduate of Princeton University, Schustack received her master’s from Yale and her Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0205139531
• ISBN 13: 9780205139538
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 566