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Personality: A Systems Approach
The discipline of Personality Psychology is undergoing a renaissance. The new textbook, A Systems Approach, has been designed to help students keep up. The book is constructed according to an exciting new roadmap that draws on the field’s best and most longstanding intellectual traditions. By examining personality according to its defining qualities, parts, organization, and development, students understand human personality, including their own personalities, and the influence of personality on an individual’s life.
560 pages, Hardcover
First published April 4, 2006
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March 17, 2024
Reading this book for a class that I am auditing (as a senior citizen - oh god, really?) I gave it four stars because Mayer is one of the movers and shakers of personality theory, and he describes the modern framework of it very well. That said, I am finding the subject supremely uninspiring. Until someone can explain to me why this whole branch of psychology is not simply, "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin," I'll go on considering most of the material in it the "duh" factor.
I'm going to finish it simply because I don't want to give up on the class (the professor is very good), and in the hope that I will be proven wrong in the end, and that the subject is not simply academic masturbation.
I'm going to finish it simply because I don't want to give up on the class (the professor is very good), and in the hope that I will be proven wrong in the end, and that the subject is not simply academic masturbation.
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