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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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