Introduction to Personality

This Eighth Edition reflects the new developments withinpersonality psychology, and gives the student a picture of thefield as a cumulative, integrative science that builds on its richpast and now allows a much more coherent view of the wholefunctioning individual in the social world. This revision,subtitled: Toward an Integrative Science of the Person, iscommitted to making that integration, and its practicalapplications and personal relevance to everyday life, even moreclear and compelling for our students. In this newedition the focus is placed on distilling how findings at each ofthe six major levels of analysis of personality (trait-disposition,biological, psychodynamic-motivational, behavioral-conditioning,phenomenological-humanistic, and social-cognitive) still speakto and inform each other, and how they add to the current state ofthe science and its continuing growth.