Optimal human being : an integrated multi-level perspective /
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| Author / Creator: | Sheldon, Kennon M. (Kennon Marshall) |
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| Imprint: | Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004. |
| Description: | x, 239 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5340589 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Introduction
- What Is Optimal Human Being?
- Hierarchies and Levels of Analysis: Locating Behavior in the Physical World and Seeking Integration Between the Human Sciences
- Focusing on the Personality Level: Comprehensive Models of Personality
- Part II. Four Levels of Analysis Within Personality Theory
- The Universal Human Organism: Species-Typical Human Nature
- Personality Traits and Individual Differences: The Meaning of Variability
- Goals and Intentions: The Method of Self-Organization
- The Self-Homunculus: Fictional but Functional
- Part III. Two Higher Levels of Analysis Relevant to Personality Theory
- Social and Group Interaction: Game and Role Theory Perspectives
- The Emergence of Culture: Memes, Genes, and Other Themes
- Part IV. Towards Integration
- Optimal Human Being and Optimal Human Science: Summary Prescriptions