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.

Medical Subjects:

Personality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

APA PsycBOOKS.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, [2003]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

This book offers researchers and students an important resource that explores the rich diversity of personality as both a virtue and a vice. The editors argue that a more balanced persective of personality may help prevent overly biased or unbalance clinical or educational formations and profiles and, in contrast, may help foster a genuine empathetic connection with clients and students. Leading researchers focus on some of the most notable personality variables that have garnered the attention of researchers and scholars over the past decades, including self-esteem, optimism, intelligence, personal control, rumination, perfectionism, and neuroticism. The editors appeal for researchers and scholars to examine their assumptions about personality, which are rooted in philosophical notions of good and bad, and argue that a balanced view is essential for true understanding of human nature. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved)

Contents:

Positive personalities : when virtue can become vice: 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

Negative personalities : when vice can become virtue: 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

Further thoughts: 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.

Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2004. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2004 dcunns.

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