This ISBN is for the Pearson eText and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplement. Personality Understanding Yourself and Others presents an up-to-date overview of arguably the most interesting and relevant subfield in psychology for today’s undergraduate students. Committed to teaching students about personality psychology as well as about life itself, authors Jean Twenge and W. Keith Campbell address students’ most pressing questions about friendship, relationships, health, happiness, and more. Designed to appeal to today’s students — who are enmeshed in social media — the Canadian Edition offers coverage of contemporary topics of interest, such as how the “Big Five” personality traits relate to digital communication and the impact of partner personality traits on relationship satisfaction.
Dr. Twenge frequently gives talks and seminars on teaching and working with today’s young generation based on a dataset of 11 million young people. Her audiences have included college faculty and staff, high school teachers, military personnel, camp directors, and corporate executives. Her research has been covered in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, and The Washington Post, and she has been featured on Today, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Fox and Friends, NBC Nightly News, Dateline NBC, and National Public Radio.
She holds a BA and MA from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She lives in San Diego with her husband and three daughters.
Pretty good textbook. Tries to interact with people my age and be funny, and it actually works. It's not super cringey humor. Overall, easy to read and to study. I liked it. Minus one star because of the pain the teacher put me through.