Personality and social psychology : towards a synthesis /

Personality and social psychology : towards a synthesis /

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Author / Creator:Krahé, Barbara
Imprint:London ; Newbury Park, CA : Sage Publications, 1992.
Description:viii, 278 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Personality
Social psychology
Personality -- Social aspects.
Social psychology.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1349128
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ISBN:0803987242 (cased)
0803987250 (pbk) : £11.95
Notes:Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 242-273.
Table of Contents:
  • Persons and Situations
  • Cornerstones of Modern Personality Psychology
  • The Issue of Consistency in Personality
  • Sixty Years of Controversy
  • In Defence of Traits
  • New (and Revived) Perspectives
  • Modern Interactionism
  • An Alternative Framework for Personality Research
  • Implementing the Interactionist Programme
  • Three Exemplary Areas of Research
  • Improving Personality Measurement
  • The Nomothetic Road to the Study of Consistency
  • Personality Psychology Is about Individuals
  • Rediscovering the Idiographic Legacy
  • The Role of the Situation in Personality Research
  • Personality Psychology in the Nineties
  • An Outlook
  • Expanded Contents for Solus
  • Chapter 1. Persons and Situations
  • Cornerstones of Modern Personality Psychology
  • Scope of the book
  • Review of the chapters
  • Chapter 2. The Issue of Consistency in Personality
  • Sixty Years of Controversy
  • Meanings of consistency
  • The beginnings of the controversy
  • The traditional trait position
  • The situationist challenge
  • Proposed solutions
  • Smmary
  • Chapter 3. In Defence of Traits
  • New (and Revived) Perspectives
  • Basic trait dimensions
  • the big five
  • The biological basis of traits
  • Traits as social constructions
  • Summary
  • Chapter 4. Modern Interactionism
  • An Alternative Framework for Personality Research
  • The fundamentals of modern interactionism
  • The role of situation variables
  • Personality development from an interactionist perspective
  • Summary
  • Chapter 5. Implementing The Interactionist Programme
  • Three Exemplary Areas of Research
  • Anxiety
  • a multidimensional approach
  • Emotions and person-situation congruence
  • Prosocial behaviour
  • Has interactionism come of age
  • critical voices
  • Summary
  • Chapter 6. Improving Personality Measurement
  • The Nomothetic Road To The Study of Consistency
  • The moderator variable strategy
  • beyond omnibus predictions
  • Aggregation and act trends
  • beyond single-act criteria
  • The peer-rating strategy
  • beyond self-reports
  • Summary
  • Chapter 7. Personality Psychology is About Individuals
  • Rediscovering The Idiographic Legacy
  • Strategies for capturing individual uniqueness
  • The idiothetic approach to consistency
  • Integrating idiographic and nomothetic measures of personality
  • Understanding personal life plans
  • Summary
  • Chapter 8. The Role of The Situation in Personality Research
  • Situations as objective entities
  • Situations as subjective realities
  • Situations as chosen by the individual
  • Summary
  • Chapter 9. Personality Psychology In The Nineties
  • An Outlook

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