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The Personality Puzzle 9th Edition by David C. Funder, ISBN-13: 978-1324060543

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The Personality Puzzle 9th Edition by David C. Funder, ISBN-13: 978-1324060543

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  • Publisher: ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; Ninth edition (July 1, 2024)
  • Language: ‎ English
  • 712 pages
  • ISBN-10: ‎ 1324060549
  • ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1324060543

The ultimate reading and active learning experience for personality science.

The Personality Puzzle is heralded as the book that helps students think critically about the science of personality and find joy in the journey through David Funder’s unparalleled writing. New for the Ninth Edition, The Personality Puzzle introduces the latest scientific research and relevant social media applications, with a focus on the exciting work of underrepresented psychologists today. Student learning moves online with a new, assignable, interactive ebook that engages students with active learning opportunities. Students will be able to analyze their own personalities through online Try for Yourself surveys and assess their reading through Check Your Understanding questions that provide retrieval practice in every section. InQuizitive adaptive assessment rounds out the lesson, using research-proven techniques to help students “lock in” what they learn.
Table of Content:

Cover
Publisher’s Notice
Half-title Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
About the Author
Quotes
Contents in Brief
Preface
Contents
Chapter 1: The Study of the Person
The Goals of Personality Psychology
Appreciating Individual Differences
Wrapping It Up
Part I: The Science of Personality: Methods and Assessment
Chapter 2: Personality Data and Assessment
Psychology’s Emphasis on Method
Personality Data: Four Kinds of Clues
Personality Assessment
Conclusion
Wrapping It Up
Chapter 3: Evaluating Research and Assessment
Quality of Data: Psychometrics
Research Design
Evaluating the Strength of a Finding
Ethical Issues
Conclusion
Wrapping It Up
Part II: People Are Different: The Trait Approach
Chapter 4: Persons, Situations, and Personality Judgment
The Trait Approach
People Are Inconsistent
The Person-Situation Debate
The Accuracy of Personality Judgment
Accurate Self-Knowledge
Accuracy Matters
Wrapping It Up
Chapter 5: Traits and Types: The Big Five and Beyond
The Single-Trait Approach
The Many-Trait Approach
The Essential-Trait Approach
Typological Approaches to Personality
From Assessment to Understanding
Wrapping It Up
Chapter 6: Personality Stability, Development, and Change
Personality Stability
Personality Development
Personality Change
Principles of Personality Continuity and Change
Is Personality Change Good or Bad?
Wrapping It Up
Part III: The Mind and the Body: Biological Approaches to Personality
Chapter 7: The Anatomy and Physiology of Personality
Hippocrates’ Problem and Ours
Basic Structure and Physiology of the Brain
Methods for Studying the Brain
Brain Physiology
The Big Five and the Brain
Biology and Psychology
Wrapping It Up
Chapter 8: Evolution and Genetics: The Inheritance of Personality
Evolutionary Personality Psychology
Behavioral Genetics
Inheritance is the Beginning, Not the End
Wrapping It Up
Part IV: The Hidden World of the Mind: The Psychoanalytic Approach
Chapter 9: Basics of Psychoanalysis
Freud Himself
Key Ideas of Psychoanalysis
Controversy
Psychoanalysis, Life, and Death
Psychosexual Development: “Follow the Money”
Thinking and Consciousness
Anxiety and Defense
Psychoanalysis as a Therapy and as a Route Toward Understanding
Psychoanalytic Theory: A Critique
Why Study Freud?
Wrapping It Up
Chapter 10: Psychoanalysis After Freud: Neo-Freudians, Object Relations, and Current Research
Interpreting Freud
Latter-Day Issues and Theorists
Empirical Psychoanalytic Research
Psychoanalysis in Perspective
Wrapping It Up
Part V: Experience and Awareness: Humanistic and Cross-Cultural Psychology
Chapter 11: Humanistic and Positive Psychology
Phenomenology: Awareness Is Everything
Existentialism
Optimistic Humanism: Rogers and Maslow
Personal Constructs: Kelly
Positive Psychology
Humanistic and Positive Psychology in the 21st Century
Wrapping It Up
Chapter 12: Cultural Variation in Experience, Behavior, and Personality
What Is Culture?
Culture and Personality
The Importance of Cross-Cultural Differences
Characteristics of Cultures
Cultural Assessment and Personality Assessment
The Origins of Cultural Differences
Challenges and New Directions for Cross-Cultural Research
The Universal Human Condition
Wrapping It Up
Part VI: What Personality Does: Motivation, Emotion, and the Self
Chapter 13: Personality Processes: Learning, Cognition, Motivation, and Emotion
Learning
Cognitive Theories of Personality
Motivation
Emotion
Happiness
Personality as a Verb
Wrapping It Up
Chapter 14: The Self: What You Know About You
The I and the Me
The Contents and Purposes of the Self
The Declarative Self
The Procedural Self
The Narrative Self
How Many Selves?
The Really Real Self
Wrapping It Up
Part VII: Applications of Personality Psychology
Chapter 15: Relationships and Business
Love and Relationships
Work and Business
Personality and Life
Wrapping It Up
Chapter 16: Mental and Physical Health
Personality Disorders
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)
Defining Personality Disorders
The Major Personality Disorders
Organizing and Diagnosing Disorders with the DSM-5 and Beyond
Personality and Disorder
Physical Health
The Healthy Personality
Wrapping It Up
Chapter 17: What Have We Learned?
Which Approach Is Right?
What Have We Learned?
The Quest for Understanding
Wrapping It Up
Credits
References
Glossary
Name Index
Subject Index

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.

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