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100			_aCaprara, Gian Vittorio
245		0	_aPersonality: determinants, dynamics, and potentials _cGian Vittorio Caprara, Daniel Cervone
260			_aCambridge, UK ;: _bCambridge University Press, _c2000.
300			_axvi, 488 p. : _bHB
505			_a1 The Domain of Personality Psychology Common Themes Definitions, Aims, and Assumptions Theories and Explanations Distinguishing Among Theoretical Approaches What Is a Personality Theory to Do? Dispositions as Phenotypes and Genotypes Related Metatheoretical Issues Methodological Issues Summing Up 2 Origins, History, and Progress The Origins of Personality Psychology Within the History of Ideas Problems and Perspectives in the History of Psychology The Challenge of Cultural Diversity The Constmction of Histories The Matrices of Western Thought Conceptions of the Person in Ancient Greece Roman Thought The Birth of the Sciences Social Science and Social Change The Founding of Personality Psychology Structuralism and Functionalism Paradigms Research Traditions Continuities and Discontinuities in the Progress of the Discipline The Progress of Personality Psychology Freedom, Resources, and Critical Mass Developments in the United States A Period of Transition Substantive Challenges, Rhetoric, and Debate in the Advancement of Knowledge Facing the Present and Looking to the Future The Case of Psychoanalysis Freud's Metapsychology Secessions and New Directions of Research Is There Still a Place for Psychoanalysis in Personality Psychology? Forecasting the Future Summing Up PART TWO. DESCRIPTION AND EXPLANATION Introduction: Description and Explanation 3 Individual Differences: Traits, Temperament, and Intelligence Dispositions: Debate and Unresolved Issues On the Varieties of Trait Theory Describing Individual Differences: Lexical Approaches, Questionnaire Approaches, and the Five-Factor Model Five Basic Factors Lexical Studies The Questionnaire Tradition Comprehensive Individual-Difference Structures Generalizability of the Five-Factor Structure Across Languages and Cultures Five-Factor Instruments Merits and Limits of the Five-Factor Model Factor Analysis in the Study of Personality The Technique Interpreting the Method Temperament and Personality Early 20th Century Contributions Defining Temperament Dimensions of Temperament Context and Categories General Conclusions The Intelligences: General, Practical, Social, and Emotional Components and Expressions of Intelligence Social Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, and Wisdom Summing Up 4 Personality Coherence and Individual Uniqueness: Interactionism and Social-Cognitive Systems Interactionism Theoretical Models and Research Strategies Beyond Separate Person and Situation Factors Situations A Functional Analysis of Situations A Lexical Analysis of Situations Mental Representations of Social Episodes Situation Cognition and Personality Coherence Universal Forms? Social-Cognitive Theories of Personality Structure, Process, and Functioning Brief History Defining Features of Social-Cognitive Theory Banduras Social Cognitive Theory Alternative Strategies of Explanation Trait and Dispositional Constructs as Causes Social-Cognitive and Affective Systems as Causes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Strategies of Explanation A Bottom-Up, Social-Cognitive Analysis of Cross-Situational Coherence Summing Up PART THREE. THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY Introduction: The Development of Personality 5 Personality Development Across the Course of Life Assumptions in the Study of Development Mechanistic Perspectives Organismic Perspectives Developmental Contextualism Superordinate Assumptions Contemporary Views of Development The Domain of Developmental Inquiry Ages and Stages Developmental Tasks and the Seasons of the Life Cycle Stages of Ego Development The Development of the Self System Mental Representations of Personal Attributes Feelings of Self-Worth Self-Efficacy Beliefs Metacognitive Knowledge of Self-Control Strategies Standards for Self-Evaluation Stability, Continuity, and Change Stability Continuity Developmental Continuities and Discontinuities in their Sociohistorical Context Optimal Development through Selection and Compensation Psychosocial Transitions, Personal Determinants of Life Trajectories Psychosocial Transitions and Personal Agency Summing Up 6 Genetics, Brain Systems, and Personality The Role of Genetics in Personality Development The Long Road from Genes to Behavior Strong and Weak Biologism Definitional Issues in the Study of Genetics and Personality Behavior Genetic Analyses of Individual Differences Assessing the Traditional Behavioral-Genetic Paradigm Moving the Behavior-Genetic Paradigm Foi-ward Brain Systems at the Basis of Personality Development and Functioning Conceptualizations of Brain and Personality Brain Structures and Processes Brain Functions Brain Systems and Personality Functioning The Seminal Contributions of Pavlov Contemporary Models of Brain Systems and Individual Differences Sex Differences Sex Differentiation and Development Evolutionary Psychology and Sex Differences Summing Up 7 Interpersonal Relations Interpersonal Relations: Theoretical Frameworks Attachment Attachment Styles Temperament of the Child and Sensitivity of the Mother Cultural Differences and Social Networks Stability and Pervasiveness Across Generations Interpersonal Orientations Communication Peer Relations and Friendships Peer Relations in Younger and Older Childhood Early Friendships and Prosocial Capabilities and Later Psychosocial Outcomes Peer Relations and the Development of Self-Concept Friendships and Maladjustment Group Influences Peers, Parents, and Adolescent "Storm and Stress" Summing Up 8 Soci^ Contexts snd Social Constructions! lA^ork, Education, Family, Gender, and Values Work Marxist Analysis Social Status, Action, and the Development of Capacities Education Social and Cognitive Processes in Educational Attainment Rectifying Educational Inequalities? Family The Contemporary Western Family The Family System The Life Cycle of the Family Facing Adversities and Change The Social Development of Gender Sex and Gender History and Change Gender Differences in Cognitive Abilities, Social Behavior, and Traits Gender Differences in Aggression Gender and Personality Traits Gender Differences in Developmental Continuities, Self-Construals, and Vulnerabilities Gender Development: Theories and Research Paradigms Psychoanalytic, Social Learning, and Early Cognitive Approaches The Centrality of Gender: Masculinity, Femininity, and Androgeny Contemporary Frameworks: Evolutionary Psychology, Sex Role Theory, and Social Cognitive Theory Social Values and the Symbolic Environment The Structure of Values The Media and the Social Transmission of Values Social Change and Materialistic and Postmaterialistic Values Summing Up PART FOUR. THE DYNAMICS OF PERSONALITY Introduction to Part IV 9 Knowledge Structures and Interpretive Processes General Considerations Recurring Themes The Relation between Personality and Social Psychology Historical Background The Contemporary Field: Alternative Models of Knowledge Representation Knowledge Activation: Temporary and Chronic Sources of Accessibility Temporary Sources of Construct Accessibility Chronically Accessible Constructs Spontaneous Trait Inference Individual Differences in the Associations Among Concepts Schematic Knowledge Structures and Self-Schemas Schemas: Three Features Self-Schemas Relational Schemas Knowledge Structures, Personal Standards, and Emotional Experience Internalized Standards Standards, Discrepancies, and Vulnerability to Distinct Emotional States Knowledge, Encoding, and Individual Differences in Aggressive Behavior Coherent Systems of Self-Knowledge Multiple Self-Aspects and Self-Complexity Idiographic Representations of Self-Knowledge and Social Knowledge Beyond Discrete Attributes: Narrative and Dialogue Narrative Internal Dialogue The Narrative Turn: Expansion of or Challenge to Psychology's Analysis of Knowledge and Meaning? Summing Up 10 Affective Experience: Emotions and Mood Historical and Contemporary Analyses of Emotional Experience The Varieties of Affective Experience Moods Versus Emotions The Structure of the Emotion Domain The Components and Functions of Emotional Experience Cognitive Appraisal and Emotional Experience Physiological Substrates of Emotional Experience The Behavioral Expression of Emotional States Subjective Emotional Experience Coherence Among the Components of Emotional Response Summing Up 11 Unconscious Processes and Conscious Experience The Elusive Unconscious and Self-Evident Consciousness - or Vice Versa? Unconscious Processes Conscious Experience Paradigm Shifts in Psychology's Understanding of Conscious and Unconscious Processes Differentiating Among Conscious and Unconscious Phenomena Defensive Processing Repression and Repressive Coping Style Development of Defense Mechanisms Social-Cognitive Bases of Defense: Transference and Projection Inhibition, Expression, and Health Defensive Processing: Summary Implicit Cognition The Reality and Variety of Implicit Cognition Implicit Individual-Difference Measures Conscious Processes Conscious Processes and Personality Functioning Individual Differences: Public and Private Self-Consciousness Rumination and Coping States of Flow and the Experience Sampling Method The Control of Consciousness Affective States and Conscious Thought Summing Up 12 Motivation and Self-Regulation Motivation, Cognition, and the Self-Regulatoiy System Standards and Affective Self-Evaluation Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Perceived Control Goals and the Self-Regulatory System Temporal and Cross-Situational Coherence in the Self-System Personal Agency Historical and Contemporary Theoretical Frameworks Instinct, Drive, Need, and Motive Theories Contemporary Cognitive Frameworks Control Beliefs and Perceptions of Self-Efficacy Distinguishing Among Control Beliefs Perceived Self-Efficacy Behavioral, Cognitive, and Affective Consequences of Efficacy Beliefs Boosting Efficacy Beliefs Goals and Self-Motivation Variations Among Goals and Goal Systems Task Goals and Self-Regulatory Processes Moderators of Goal-Setting Effects: Feedback and Task Complexity Self-Referent Cognition and Affect as Mediators of Goal-Setting Effects Nonconscious Goal Mechanisms Qualitative Variations in Goals and Personal Standards Coherence in Goal Systems Implicit Theories Middle-Level Goal Units A Methodological Caveat: Do People Know What They're Doing? Distraction and the Challenge of Carrying Out Intentions Action and State Orientations Initiating Goal-Directed Action Controlling Impulses Ego Dimensions Mischel's Delay of Gratification Paradigm Summing Up PART FIVE. EPILOGUE Looking to the Future: Is Personality Psychology in Good Health? Reasons for Optimism? Toward a Common Paradigm?
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