Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I Research Methods

What Do We Know When We Know a Person?

McAdams, Dan P.

Studying Personality the Long Way

Block, Jack

A Simple, General-Purpose Display of Magnitude of Experimental Effect

Rosenthal

Robert

Rubin, Donald B.

Construct Validity in Psychological Tests

Cronbach, Lee J.

Meehl, Paul E.

Convergent and Discriminant Validation by the Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix

Campbell, Donald T.

Fiske, Donald W.

Conceptual Analysis of Psychological Test Scores and Other Diagnostic Variables

Gough, Harrison G.

Do People Know How They Behave? Self-Reported Act Frequencies Compared with On-line Codings by Observers

Gosling, Samuel D.

John, Oliver P.

Craik, Kenneth H.

Robins, Richard W.

Part II The Trait Approach to Personality

From The Last Hurrah

O'Connor, Edwin

What Is a Trait of Personality?

Allport, Gordon W.

Consistency and Specificity in Behavior

Mischel, Walter

Some Reasons for the Apparent Inconsistency of Personality

Block, Jack

Profiting From Controversy: Lessons From the Person-Situation Debate

Kenrick, Douglas T.

Funder, David C.

Self-Monitoring of Expressive Behavior

Snyder, Mark

A Five-Factor Theory of Personality

McCrae, Robert R.

Costa Jr., Paul T.

Part III Biological Approaches to Personality

The Temperaments

Wells, Samuel R.

Testosterone Differences Among College Fraternities: Well-Behaved vs. Rambunctious

Dabbs Jr.

James M.

Hargrove, Marian F.

Heusel, Colleen

Reward Deficiency Syndrome

Blum, Kenneth

Cull, John G.

Braverman, Eric R.

Comings, David E.

Genes, Environment, and Personality

Bouchard Jr., Thomas J.

Environment and Genes: Determinants of Behavior

Plomin, Robert

Sex Differences in Jealousy: Evolution, Physiology, and Psychology

Buss, David M.

Larsen, Randy J.

Westen, Drew

Semmelroth, Jennifer

Male Sexual Proprietariness and Violence Against Wives

Wilson, Margo I.

Daly, Martin

The Origins of Sex Differences in Human Behavior: Evolved Dispositions Versus Social Roles

Eagly, Alice H.

Wood, Wendy

Exotic Becomes Erotic: A Developmental Theory of Sexual Orientation

Bem, Daryl J.

Part IV The Psychoanalytic Approach to Personality

The Dissection of the Psychical Personality

Freud, Sigmund

Parapraxes

Freud, Sigmund

Survey of Objective Studies of Psychoanalytic Concepts: Conclusions

Sears, Robert R.

Freudian Defense Mechanisms and Empirical Findings in Modern Social Psychology: Reaction Formation, Projection, Displacement, Undoing, Isolation, Sublimation, and Denial

Baumeister, Roy F.

Dale, Karen

Sommer, Kristin L.

The Verdict on Freud

Crews, Frederick

Psychological Types

Jung, Carl

The Distrust Between the Sexes

Horney, Karen

Eight Stages of Man

Erikson, Erik

Part V Humanistic Approaches to Personality

The Humanism of Existentialism

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Existential Psychology-What's in It for Us?

Maslow, Abraham H.

Is the Concept of Self Necessary?

Allport, Gordon W.

A Theory of Human Motivation

Maslow, Abraham H.

Some Observations on the Organization of Personality

Rogers, Carl R.

If We Are So Rich, Why Aren't We Happy?

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly

Part VI Cross-cultural Approaches to Personality

Body Ritual Among the Nacirema

Miner, Horace

Exploring Implicit Personality Theories with Indigenous or Imported Constructs: The Chinese Case

Yang, Kuo-shu

Bond, Michael Harris

A Collective Fear of the Collective: Implications for Selves and Theories of Selves

Markus, Hazel Rose

Kitayama, Shinobu

The Self and Social Behavior in Differing Cultural Contexts

Triandis, Harry C.

Insult, Aggression, and the Southern Culture of Honor: An ``Experimental Ethnography''

Cohen, Dov

Nisbett, Richard E.

Bowdle, Brian F.

Schwarz, Norbert

The O. J. Simpson Verdict: Predictors of Beliefs About Innocence or Guilt

Murray, Carolyn B.

Kaiser, Robert

Taylor, Shelby

Part VII Behavioral and Social Learning Approaches to Personality

Why Organisms Behave

Skinner, B. F.

Whatever Happened to Psychology as the Science of Behavior?

Skinner, B. F.

An Introduction to Social Learning Theory

Rotter, Julian

Imitation of Film-Mediated Aggressive Models

Bandura, Albert

Ross, Dorothea

Ross, Sheila A.

Part VIII The Cognitive Approach to Personality

The Self System in Reciprocal Determinism

Bandura, Albert

Toward a Cognitive Social Learning Reconceptualization of Personality

Mischel, Walter

Cognitive Strategies as Personality: Effectiveness, Specificity, Flexibility, and Change

Norem, Julie K.

Integration of the Cognitive and the Psychodynamic Unconscious

Epstein, Seymour

Effects of Ruminative and Distracting Responses to Depressed Mood on Retrieval of Autobiographical Memories

Lyubomirsky, Sonja

Caldwell, Nicole D.

Nolen-Hoeksema, Susan

Self-Knowledge of an Amnesic Patient: Toward a Neuropsychology of Personality and Social Psychology

Klein, Stanley B.

Loftus, Judith

Kihlstrom, John F.

References for Editors' Notes

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