Explorations In Temperament

Author : Jan Strelau,Alois Angleitner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 375 pages
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Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781489906434

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Explorations in Temperament by Jan Strelau,Alois Angleitner Pdf

The growing interest in research on temperament during the last decade has been re corded by several authors (e. g. , R. Plomin; J. E. Bates) from such sources of informa tion as the Social Sciences Citation Index or Psychological Abstracts. The editors' inquiry shows that the number of cases in which the term temperament was used in the title of a paper or in the paper's abstract published in Psychological Abstracts reveals an essential increase in research on temperament. During the years 1975 to 1979, the term temperament was used in the title and/or summary of 173 abstracts (i. e. , 34. 6 publications per year); during the next five years (1980-1984), it was used in 367 abstracts (73. 4 publications per year), whereas in the last five years (1985 to 1989), the term has appeared in 463 abstracts, that is, in 92. 6 publications per year. Even if the review of temperament literature is restricted to those abstracts, it can easily be concluded that temperament is used in different contexts and with different meanings, hardly allowing any comparisons or general statements. One of the consequences of this state of affairs is that our knowledge on temperament does not cumulate despite the increasing research activity in this field. This situation in temperament research motivated the editors to organize a one week workshop on The Diagnosis of Temperament (Bielefeld, Federal Republic of Germany, September 1987).

Author : Henry A. Murray
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 019530506X

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Explorations in Personality by Henry A. Murray Pdf

Explorations in Personality, published by Oxford University Press in 1938, set forth a provocative and comprehensive agenda for the scientific study of human personality. Blending no-nonsense empiricism with the humanistic desire to understand the whole person, the book is as relevant to students of personality psychology today as it was to its many readers 70 years ago. Assisted by such eminent colleagues as Erik Erikson and Robert White, Henry Murray set forth a full theory of human personality, illustrated a bevy of creative methods for personality assessment, and presented the results of a landmark study of fifty Harvard men. Explorations in Personality is one of the great classics in 20th century psychology. This reissue, enhanced by Dan McAdams' foreword, which provides a contemporary evaluation of Murray's achievement, will be of great interest to students and researchers in personality psychology and to many other behavioral scientists, scholars, and general readers who wish to understand the psychology of the whole person.

Author : Jan Strelau,Alois Angleitner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1489906444

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Explorations in Temperament by Jan Strelau,Alois Angleitner Pdf

Author : Stella Chess,Alexander Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135062538

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Temperament by Stella Chess,Alexander Thomas Pdf

In 1956 Stella Chess and Alexander Thomas launched the pioneering New York Longitudinal Study, a systematic investigation into the concept of temperament that has been pursued to the present decade. The findings from this study - that temperamental profiles of infants, children, adolescents, and adults show specific individual behavioral characteristics - are accepted as basic to the psychological mechanism of behavioral functioning. Now, these two preeminent authorities and teaches in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry present an essential introduction to their internationally recognized work. This volume takes the reader from concept - including the definition of temperament and the studies that support and expand upon that definition - to specific explorations of temperament and its impact across various practice settings and special populations.

Author : the late Henry A. Murray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 811 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780198041528

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Explorations in Personality by the late Henry A. Murray Pdf

Explorations in Personality, published by OUP in 1938, established an elaborate agenda for understanding our subjective human nature that is as relevant to students of personality psychology today as it was to its audience then. An antidote to the now fashionable strategy of representing a person as a dot on a scatter plot or burying the individual in an amalgam of statistics, it advocates 'whole person' research and bubbles with suggestions about how to perform such studies. IN addition, it actually executes with empirical and experimental rigor and ingenuity the kind of detailed, engrossing case study approach it recommends, recounting the results of a three-year long study of fifty college-age individuals. This book is, in short, a classic. This reissue, enhanced by Dan McAdams' foreword, which will provide a contemporary evaluation of Murray's achievement, will thus be of great interest to students and researchers in personality psychology in general, and personologists in particular.

Author : Robert Plomin,Judy Dunn
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134929467

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The Study of Temperament by Robert Plomin,Judy Dunn Pdf

First Published in 1986. The modern history of temperament research began in the late 1950s with the New York Longitudinal Study. Twenty-five years later, temperament has become a major focus of research on early developing emotional and social traits. The impetus for this growth in temperament research stems from the merging of several shifts in child development research: from a view of the child as passive to a model of the child as an active, transacting partner with the environment; increasing interest in individual differences in development; an expansion of research on emotional and social development; and a clear change from an exclusive reliance on environmental explanations of developmental differences to a more balanced perspective that recognizes the possibility of biological as well as environmental influences. Most stimulating is the multidisciplinary flavor of temperament research-clinicians, infancy researchers, cultural anthropologists, and behavioral geneticists have, each for their own reasons, been drawn to the study of temperament. Each of these fields is represented in the present volume, which provides the first overview of the growing field of temperament.

Author : Henry Alexander Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Personality
ISBN : MINN:31951000088736C

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Explorations in Personality by Henry Alexander Murray Pdf

Author : Willibald Ruch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110804607

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The Sense of Humor by Willibald Ruch Pdf

Author : David Rettew
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780393707304

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Child Temperament: New Thinking About the Boundary Between Traits and Illness by David Rettew Pdf

This work explores the differences between temperamental traits and psychological disorders. What is the difference between a child who is temperamentally sad and one who has depression? Can a child be angry by temperament without being mentally ill? Here, the author discusses the factors that can propel children with particular temperamental tendencies towards or away from more problematic trajectories.

Author : Jerome Kagan,Nancy Snidman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780674264885

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The Long Shadow of Temperament by Jerome Kagan,Nancy Snidman Pdf

We have seen these children—the shy and the sociable, the cautious and the daring—and wondered what makes one avoid new experience and another avidly pursue it. At the crux of the issue surrounding the contribution of nature to development is the study that Jerome Kagan and his colleagues have been conducting for more than two decades. In The Long Shadow of Temperament, Kagan and Nancy Snidman summarize the results of this unique inquiry into human temperaments, one of the best-known longitudinal studies in developmental psychology. These results reveal how deeply certain fundamental temperamental biases can be preserved over development. Identifying two extreme temperamental types—inhibited and uninhibited in childhood, and high-reactive and low-reactive in very young babies—Kagan and his colleagues returned to these children as adolescents. Surprisingly, one of the temperaments revealed in infancy predicted a cautious, fearful personality in early childhood and a dour mood in adolescence. The other bias predicted a bold childhood personality and an exuberant, sanguine mood in adolescence. These personalities were matched by different biological properties. In a masterly summary of their wide-ranging exploration, Kagan and Snidman conclude that these two temperaments are the result of inherited biologies probably rooted in the differential excitability of particular brain structures. Though the authors appreciate that temperamental tendencies can be modified by experience, this compelling work—an empirical and conceptual tour-de-force—shows how long the shadow of temperament is cast over psychological development.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Explorations in Personality by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jan Strelau
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998-10-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780306459450

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Temperament by Jan Strelau Pdf

Having investigated temperament for four decades, mostly at the University of Warsaw, Stelau decided that it was time to integrate the findings encysted in widely separated studies that are geographically narrow, limited to specific paradigms and conceptualizations, or focus on a select age group. The thoroughness of his compendium forced him to consider only what he sees as the most important issues because of size constraints. He writes primarily for psychology students, but also has in mind professionals from the many fields in which particular views of temperament have been developed and are being used in isolation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Henry Alexander Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Personality
ISBN : PSU:000045441417

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Explorations in Personality by Henry Alexander Murray Pdf

Author : Geldolph A. Kohnstamm,John E. Bates,Mary Klevjord Rothbart
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995-06-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0471955833

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Temperament in Childhood by Geldolph A. Kohnstamm,John E. Bates,Mary Klevjord Rothbart Pdf

This authoritative book addresses major topics in childhood temperament in such areas as concepts and measures, biological bases of individual differences in temperament, developmental issues, applications of temperament research in clinical and educational settings, sociocultural and other group factors as well as historical perspectives. Each section begins with a major chapter by one of the editors, followed by shorter contributions written by active researchers in the field.

Author : Marvin Zuckerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 052181569X

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Psychobiology of Personality by Marvin Zuckerman Pdf

Personality is now understood to be a function of both biological and environmental influences. This revised and updated edition of Psychobiology of Personality describes what is currently known about the biological basis of the primary personality traits, including genetic, neurological, biochemical, physiological, and behavioral influences. Emphasis is placed on understanding the connections between phenomena at these levels. The research discussed makes use of animal models, based on experimental brain research, as well as human clinical and normal personality research. Chapters are devoted to temperament and personality trait structure, psychobiological methods, and each of four major personality traits: extraversion, impulsive, sensation seeking, and aggression. Recent advances in psychobiological methods, such as molecular genetics and brain imaging have enabled us to begin to unravel the genetic and neurological sources of behavior and personality. These advances are discussed in this new edition, making it essential reading for advanced students of psychology and psychiatry.