View Review Perspectives in Personality/a Research Annual PDF by Robert Hogan

An integrated presentation of classic and contemporary theory and research fosters a thorough understanding of personality • Personality: Classic Theories and Modern Research encourages critical thinking about human nature, and helps students build the skills they need to think critically about a range of topics. In addition to learning specific content tied to the course, students will learn how to evaluate assumptions, theories, and research

This chapter is presented in four main sections: (1) a brief summary of trait-based approaches that have been used to understand human personality, (2) an introduction to some of the evolutionary

Perspectives in Personality Research, again edited by Henry P. David, this time in cooperation with J. C. Brengelmann, con­ tains contributions from twenty-seven psychologists from eleven countries, an even wider range than that represented by its predecessor. We are indeed, in the happy phrase used by Joseph

In particular, these results highlight that it is observers' "unique" perspectives on personality (reflected in the reputation factor) that contribute to predicting performance more than variance that overlaps with self-reports (, the trait factor). Such findings point to the value of adopting the TRI Model to separate multirater personality perspectives into consensual and discrepant views, nuances that would be obscured by simply using observer-reports directly as indicators