Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature ISE

Chapter 1: Introduction to Personality Psychology 
Chapter 2: Personality Assessment, Measurement, and Research Design 


Part 1 The Dispositional Domain


Chapter 3: Traits and Trait Taxonomies
Chapter 4: Theoretical and Measurement Issues in Trait Psychology
Chapter 5: Personality Dispositions over Time: Stability, Coherence, and Change
 
Part 2 The Biological Domain


Chapter 6: Genetics and Personality 
Chapter 7: Physiological Approaches to Personality 
Chapter 8: Evolutionary Perspectives on Personality 


Part 3 The Intrapsychic Domain


Chapter 9: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Personality 
Chapter 10: Psychoanalytic Approaches: Contemporary Issues 
Chapter 11: Motives and Personality 


Part 4 The Cognitive/Experiential Domain


Chapter 12: Cognitive Topics in Personality 
Chapter 13: Emotion and Personality 
Chapter 14: Approaches to the Self 


Part 5 The Social and Cultural Domain


Chapter 15: Personality and Social Interaction 
Chapter 16: Sex, Gender, and Personality 
Chapter 17: Culture and Personality 


Part 6 The Adjustment Domain


Chapter 18: Stress, Coping, Adjustment, and Health 
Chapter 19: Disorders of Personality 


Conclusion


Chapter 20: Summary and Future Directions

Personality psychology is a field devoted to the study of all that it means to be human, and with Personality Psychology 8e, Larsen and Buss capture the excitement of the discipline. This text is unique in two significant ways. First, rather than arranging their text around the traditional grand theories of personality, Larsen and Buss instead used a framework of six domains of knowledge about personality functioning: the dispositional domain, the biological domain, the intrapsychic domain, the cognitive-experiential domain, the societal and cultural domain, and the adjustment domain. Research in the field reinforces the fact that these domains effectively organize the key theories within personality psychology. In addition to the six major organizing themes, Personality Psychology 8e also differs from other personality texts in the importance placed on culture, gender, and biology, areas of personality scholarship that have shown substantial growth in recent years.