Virtue, vice, and personality : the complexity of behavior / edited by Edward C. Chang and Lawrence J. Sanna.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chang, Edward C. (Edward Chin-Ho)

Sanna, Lawrence J., 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personality.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 189 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2003]

Summary:

The editors of this book argue that a more balanced perspective of personality may help prevent overly biased or unbalanced clinical or educational formulations and profiles and, in contrast, may help foster a genuine empathetic connection with clients and students.

Contents:

High self-esteem : a differentiated perspective / Michael H. Kernis

Optimism as virtue and vice / Christopher Peterson and Robert S. Vaidya

Intelligence : can one have too much of a good thing? / Robert J. Sternberg

The hazards of goal pursuit / Laura A. King and Chad M. Burton

The virtues and vices of personal control / Michael J. Strube, J. Scott Hanson, and Laurel Newman

Pessimism : accentuating the positive possibilities / Julie K. Norem

Rumination, imagination, and personality : specters of the past and future in the present / Lawrence J. Sanna, Shevaun L. Stocker, and Jennifer A. Clarke

On the perfectibility of the individual : going beyond the dialectic of good versus evil / Edward C. Chang

Neuroticism : adaptive and maladaptive features / David Watson and Alex Casillas

Going beyond (while remaining connected to) personality as virtue and vice / Howard Tennen and Glenn Affleck

Beyond virtue and vice in personality : some final thoughts / Lawrence J. Sanna and Edward C. Chang.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1591470137

OCLC:

51942773