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

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Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780826132048
0826132049
1281813257
9781281813251

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pioneers of personality science.DDC classification:

155.2/092/2 B 22

LOC classification:

BF109.A1 P56 2006eb

NLM classification:

2006 E-885
WZ 112.5.P5

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EBSCOhost

Contents:

Foreword / Irving B. Weiner -- Preface / Stephen Strack and Bill N. Kinder -- My unexpected life / Jack Block -- Pathways / Arnold H. Buss -- Discontinuities, side steps, and finding a proper place: an autobiographical account / James N. Butcher -- Report on myself: the science and/or art of assessment / Richard H. Dana -- Psychologist grows in Brooklyn: reflections from the past / Leonard Handler -- Lifelong attempt to understand and assess personality / Robert R. Holt -- Over half a century of playing with inkblots and other wondrous pursuits / Wayne H. Holtzman -- Have PhD, will travel / Samuel Karson -- From Freud to Gehrig to Rapaport to DiMaggio / Paul M. Lerner -- Confessions of an iconoclast: at home on the fringe / Jane Loevinger -- Speak, memory, or goodbye, Columbus / Joseph Masling -- Blessed and charmed personal odyssey / Theodore Millon -- Ideas from my undergraduate years: an autobiographical fragment / Edwin S. Shneidman -- Chance and choice: change and continuity: that's life / Norman D. Sundberg -- Shaping of personality: genes, environments, and chance encounters / Marvin Zuckerman.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.