The Personality Puzzle

Funder, David C.

ISBN 10: 039312441X / ISBN 13: 9780393124415

Published by Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Personality Puzzle
• Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039312441X
• ISBN 13: 9780393124415
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

A personality text with personality.

The Personality Puzzle gets students excited about personality psychology, demonstrating that it is relevant to their lives and thus actually fun to explore. Over six editions, author David Funder has established himself as the master of the readable textbook, always conveying the motivations behind psychological inquiry while never skimping on the science.

About the Author

David C. Funder is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and former chair of the department at the University of California, Riverside. Winner of the 2009 Jack Block Award for Distinguished Research in Personality, he is a former editor of the Journal of Research in Personality, and a past president of the Association for Research in Personality as well as the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. He is best known for his research on personality judgment and has also published research on delay of gratification, attribution theory, the longitudinal course of personality development, and the psychological assessment of situations. He has taught personality psychology to undergraduates at Harvey Mudd College, Harvard University, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and continues to teach the course every year at the University of California, Riverside.