Perspectives on Personality [with MySearchLab & eText Access Code]

by Charles S. Carver, Michael F. Scheier

B> The book reflects the authors' beliefs that clearly presented concepts and solid research are the foundations of the study of personality. The various perspectives are the organizing framework of the book: each perspective on personality is presented in two chapters and is introduced by a prologue that describes the assumptions and themes of the perspective. Carver and Scheier build a solid foundation in the three introductory chapters, introduce the seven perspectives (in seven parts), before neatly and creatively wrapping things up with Chapter 18: Personality in Perspective, which also introduces the concept of blending various theories. An exciting feature of this edition is a special box in each chapter called "The Theorist and the Theory" which discusses the role that the personal lives of the theorists may have had on the development of their theories. For anyone interested in the psychology of personality.

Genres: Psychology, School, Textbooks, Nonfiction

480 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

Reviews

[Lauren McDonald · Rating 2 out of 5]

A great read for a great class, rating is only for my recommended books algorithm :)

[Mik]

gee those sure were a lot of perspectives on personality

this was probably the least dry textbook i've read in my 4 years of university lmao

[Brad Dunn · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this book a little strange. I read of for my Personality Psychology class and couldn't help but notice how much overlap there was in other units (and other textbooks). Kind of made me wonder why they have a whole dedicated unit to Personality and yet ignore other domains (like evolutionary psychology) which might warrant an entire textbook.

To be fair, it does cover personality perspectives across a bunch of domains, but I found much of the content just had so much overlap with other units, despite it trying to 'personality it up' a lot.
Easy to read and digest though, so no complaints really other than feeling it was a bit redundant.

[Lily · Rating 5 out of 5]

Having done barely any non academic reading this year so including this out of spite 😁. Provides a range of psychological perspectives on personality and some interesting studies, overall a good read:)

[Brynn Land · Rating 3 out of 5]

Standard textbook, educational

[Aaron Wong]

Interesting insights on personality, and how it is related to growing-up experiences.

[Tayler K · Rating 2 out of 5]

Chapters 1-5, 8-15, 6, 7, 16, 17

[Kyara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Simply insightful