Personality, Fourteenth Edition Asia Edition

●Illustrates the interconnection between theory, research, and clinical practice
●Highlights the contributions of neuroscience in advancing all aspects of personality theory and research
●Provides a comparative learning framework that capitalizes on student intuition to encourage critical thinking and self-exploration
●Presents complex ideas in an accessible, easy to follow style that directly engages students without oversimplifying critical points
●Incorporates case studies to illustrate general concepts through specific examples
●Emphasizes major theories over those with little relevance to the modern field

Daniel Cervone - Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Lawrence A. Pervin - Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University

●Coverage has been alternately expanded and streamlined to reflect each topic’s importance in modern research, theory, and practice
●Contemporary Developments features highlight specific 21st century theories that directly address limitations in previously accepted thinking
●Discussion of modern research methods details the use of new technology, such as computerized text analysis applied to social media

1 Personality Theory: From Everyday Observations to Systematic Theories
2 The Scientific Study of People
3 A Psychodynamic Theory: Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality
4 Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory: Applications, Related Theoretical Conceptions, and Contemporary Research
5 A Phenomenological Theory: The Personality Theory of Rogers
6 Rogers’s Phenomenological Theory: Applications, Related Theoretical Conceptions, and Contemporary Research
7 Trait Theories of Personality: Allport, Eysenck, and Cattell
8 Trait Theory: The Five-Factor Model and Contemporary Developments
9 Biological Foundations of Personality
10 Behaviorism and The Learning Approaches To Personality
11 A Cognitive Theory: George A. Kelly’s Personal Construct Theory of Personality
12 Social-Cognitive Theory: Bandura and Mischel
13 Social-Cognitive Theory: Applications, Related Theoretical Conceptions, and Contemporary Developments
14 Personality In Context: Interpersonal Relations, Culture, and Development Across The Course of Life