The Personality Puzzle - Softcover

Funder, David C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393969932 ISBN 13: 9780393969931

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996

Synopsis

Designed for psychology undergraduates, this is an introduction to the theory of personality. It suggests that the existence of several basic theoretical frameworks can enrich the teaching of the psychology of personality. The reader accompanying the book supplements the discussions in the text with primary theoretical and empirical literature.

About this title

About the Author:

David C. Funder is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside. He is editor of the Journal of Research and Personalityand a former associate editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He is best known for his research on personality judgment and has also published on the delay of gratification, attribution theory, and the longitudinal course of personality development.

Review:

A refreshing diversion from the traditional assembly-line approach of other textbook authors. -- D. Brett King, University of Colorado, Boulder

The author did a fine, balanced, careful job, and the writing is a pleasure. -- Drew Westen, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Hospital

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0393969932
• ISBN 13: 9780393969931
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 466