Advances in personality science / edited by Daniel Cervone, Walter Mischel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cervone, Daniel.

Mischel, Walter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personality--Congresses.

Personality.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Guilford Press, [2002]

Summary:

This definitive volume lays the foundations for an interdisciplinary science of personality. Leading investigators present novel insights and findings from molecular genetics, child and life-span developmental psychology, neuroscience, dynamical systems theory, evolutionary psychology, and social cognition, as well as personality psychology itself, illuminating--and often reformulating--fundamental questions about the nature of personhood. The book sheds new light on the nature and origins of personality and individual differences, and challenges many traditional assumptions. It also points toward compelling new directions for future work in the field.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Personality Science / Daniel Cervone, Walter Mischel 1

Part I. Biological Bases of Individual Differences: Cortical Activity, Affect, and Motivation

Chapter 2. In Search of the Genetic Engram of Personality / Elena L. Grigorenko 29

Chapter 3. Individual Differences in Childhood Shyness: Origins, Malleability, and Developmental Course / Louis A. Schmidt, Nathan A. Fox 83

Chapter 4. States, Traits, and Symptoms: Investigating the Neural Correlates of Emotion, Personality, and Psychopathology / Wendy Heller, Jennifer I. Schmidtke, Jack B. Nitschke, Nancy S. Koven, Gregory A. Miller 106

Chapter 5. Incentive and Threat Reactivity: Relations with Anterior Cortical Activity / Steven K. Sutton 127

Part II. Personality Development in Its Social Context

Chapter 6. Models of Development / Michael Lewis 153

Chapter 7. Evolutionary and Developmental Perspectives on the Agentic Self / Patricia H. Hawley, Todd D. Little 177

Chapter 8. Birth Cohort, Social Change, and Personality: The Interplay of Dysphoria and Individualism in the 20th Century / Jean M. Twenge 196

Chapter 9. Looking Backward: Changes in the Mean Levels of Personality Traits from 80 to 12 / Paul T. Costa, Jr., Robert R. McCrae 219

Part III. Personality as a Complex System: Social-Cognitive and Affective Dynamics

Chapter 10. What Remains Invariant?: Finding Order within a Person's Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors across Situations / Yuichi Shoda, Scott LeeTiernan 241

Chapter 11. Integration and Compartmentalization: A Model of Self-Structure and Self-Change / Carolin J. Showers 271

Chapter 12. The Emergence of Personality: Personal Stability through Interpersonal Synchronization / Andrzej Nowak, Robin R. Vallacher, Michal Zochowski 292.

Notes:

"Originated at the inaugural conference of the Association for Research in Personality, held in San Antonio, Texas, in 2001"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1572307374

OCLC:

48475287