Perspectives on Personality

by Charles S. Carver, Michael F. Scheier

The various perspectives of the field of personality provide the organizing framework for this text. Each perspective is presented in two chapters and is introduced by a prologue that describes the assumptions and themes of the perspective.

Genres: Psychology, School, Textbooks, Nonfiction

539 pages, Hardcover

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