Pioneers of personality science [[electronic resource] ] : autobiographical perspectives / / Stephen Strack, Bill N. Kinder, editors

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Springer Pub. Co., c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (448 p.)
• Disciplina: 155.2/092/2; B
• Soggetto topico: Psychologists; Personality - History
• Altri autori: StrackStephen KinderBill N. <1946->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Editors; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1 My Unexpected Life; 2 Pathways; 3 Discontinuities, Side Steps, and Finding a Proper Place: An Autobiographical Account; 4 A Report on Myself: The Science and/or Art of Assessment; 5 A Psychologist Grows in Brooklyn: Reflections from the Past; 6 A Lifelong Attempt to Understand and Assess Personality; 7 Over Half a Century of Playing with Inkblots and Other Wondrous Pursuits; 8 Have PhD, Will Travel; 9 From Freud to Gehrig to Rapaport to DiMaggio; 10 Confessions of an Iconoclast: At Home on the Fringe; 11 Speak, Memory, or Goodbye, Columbus ; 12 A Blessed and Charmed Personal Odyssey13 Ideas from My Undergraduate Years: An Autobiographical Fragment; 14 Chance and Choice: Change and Continuity: That's Life; 15 The Shaping of Personality: Genes, Environments, and Chance Encounters; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The field of personology or personality is enjoying great growth, spurred by findings from behavior genetics, evolutionary psychology, rethinking of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders definition of personality disorders, and advances in test construction and psychometrics . This book traces the development of the field, written by those who were the pioneers of personality assessment. Sixteen autobiographical chapters written by the pioneers of personality assessment trace the development of the field. With accompanying photos and a concise bibliography from each contrib
• Titolo autorizzato: Pioneers of personality science
• ISBN: 1-281-81325-7; 9786611813253; 0-8261-3204-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782467603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II