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	Personality psychology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Personality psychology is a branch of psychology which studies personality and individual different processes - that which makes us into a person.
		One criticism of trait models of personality as a whole is that they lead professionals in clinical psychology and laypeople alike to accept classifications, or worse offer advice, based on superficial analysis of one's profile.
		Personality psychology is often closely associated with social psychology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Personality_psychology (1702 words)

	Psychology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The root of the word psychology (psyche) means "soul" in Greek, and psychology was sometimes considered a study of the soul (in a religious sense of this term).
		Psychology as a medical discipline can be seen in Thomas Willis' reference to psychology (the "Doctrine of the Soul") in terms of brain function, as part of his 1672 anatomical treatise "De Anima Brutorum" ("Two Discourses on the Souls of Brutes").
		Research in psychology is conducted in broad accord with the standards of scientific method, encompassing both qualitative ethological and quantitative statistical modalities to generate and evaluate explanatory hypotheses with regard to psychological phenomena.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psychology (4525 words)

	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Personality psychology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One emphasis in personality psychology is on trying to create a coherent picture of a person and all his or her major psychological processes.
		In psychology, personality is a collection of emotion, thought, and behavior patterns unique to a person.
		This model was based on the observations of Carl Jung and elaborated on to an important degree by the mother-daughter team of Katharine C. Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers during WWII and later on by David Keirsey.
	www.fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Personality_psychology (698 words)

	Personality Psychology Encyclopedia Article @ SomethingPersonal.com (Something Personal) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Therefore, although personality theories do not define personality as "plastic" over time like their opponents, they do imply a drastic change in personality is highly unusual.
		According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental DisordersDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, personality traits are "prominent aspects of personality that are exhibited in a wide range of important social and personal contexts." In other words, persons have certain characteristics which partly determine their behaviour.
		He broke the human personality down to three significant components: the Ego, superego, and id. According to Freud, personality is shaped by the interactions of these three components.
	www.somethingpersonal.com /encyclopedia/Personality_psychology (1633 words)

	MANY FACES: Chap. 2 Personality Psychology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Personality theorists have argued that the enduring mission of personality psychology has been to provide both theoretical and methodological tools for integrating the diverse system of influences affecting the lives of individuals and accounting for their differences.
		Personal action psychology, particularly in the focal role given to the concept of goals, provides a natural bridge to cognitive science as well as to social ecological perspectives that explore the ways in which goal pursuit is embedded in and contributes to middle level dynamic contexts.
		Personality psychology is a fundamentally intellectual pursuit--it is concerned with themes that go back to antiquity and challenges its serious students to ponder issues that cut across the full spectrum of the humanities and sciences.
	teachpsych.lemoyne.edu /teachpsych/faces/text/Ch02.htm (10854 words)

	Personality Disorders
		In psychology, personality refers to the pattern of thoughts, feelings and behaviors, consistently exhibited by an individual over a long period of time, that strongly influences the way that individual perceives the world and himself/herself.
		Personality is a complex combination of traits and characteristics that determines our expectations, self-perceptions, values and attitudes, and predicts our reactions to people, problems and stress.
		A personality disorder refers to a pattern of thoughts, feelings and behavior, consistently exhibited by an individual over a long period of time, that is maladaptive because it creates psychological distress and life coping problems, rather than assisting with life adjustment and problem solving.
	www.psychologyinfo.com /problems/personality.html (903 words)

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		If these things are legimate parts of personality, but not of EI per se (considered as an ability), it makes all the sense in the world to return to the study of pesonality psychology.
		Their quite legitimate concern is that most other people are not going to be very interested in their work given that the discipline of personality psychology is often identified as a succession of older theories (e.g., psychodynamic, humanistic), or as a collection of unintegrated research topics (e.g., traits, defenses).
		The disicpline of personality psychology, however, is undergoing a renaissance.
	www.unh.edu /emotional_intelligence/eicontroversy2.htm (1066 words)

	Emotional Intelligence and Personality Psychology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Personality can be defined as a person’s pattern of internal experience and social interaction that arises from the action of that individual’s major psychological subsystems.
		If a person’s ultimate aim is to understand a target variable – such as aggression or problem behavior – understanding the personality system as a whole can help link EI with other relevant parts of personality for empirical study.
		Personality psychology was studied that way for many years, and is still taught that way.
	www.unh.edu /emotional_intelligence/eiemotint5.htm (353 words)

	Personality Psychology 3/E - Pearson Custom Publishing
		Personality psychology today is most commonly taught according to the traditional theoretical perspectives of the field such as the psychodynamic, trait, and social-cognitive approaches.
		Simply put, this framework states that personality is better studied according to (a) an identification of the personality system, (b) its parts, (c) its organization, and (d) its development.
		Personality Psychology has been developed in cooperation with Allyn and Bacon, and has benefited from multiple external reviews, and the guidance of their skilled editorial staff.
	www.pearsoncustom.com /best/0536819882.html (338 words)

	Encyclopedia of Psychology: Personality inventory
		Personality inventories, also called objective tests, are standardized and can be administered to a number of people at the same time.
		A personality inventory may measure one factor, such as anxiety level, or it may measure a number of different personality traits at the same time, such as the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 PF).
		The questions in the private version are answered like those in other personality inventories, but the public version consists of having another person acquainted with the test taker answer questions about him or her.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0002/ai_2699000258/print (391 words)

	The Personality Project
		Personality psychology addresses the questions of shared human nature, dimensions of individual differences and unique patterns of individuals.
		Research in personality ranges from analyses of genetic codes and studies of biological systems to the study of sexual, social, ethnic, and cultural bases of thought, feelings, and behavior.
		The personality project is meant to be a cooperative endeavor for and by all of us interested in the study of personality.
	personality-project.org /personality.html (450 words)

	Social-Personality Psychology : Program Overview
		The program provides strong preparation in the theoretical foundations of social and personality psychology, and it couples this training with an emphasis on the application of psychology to social issues and policy.
		The goal of the program is to prepare social and personality psychologists who will contribute to the development of psychology and whose research will aid our understanding of human behavior and the solution of social problems.
		Our philosophy is that broad preparation in psychology and social science methodology is essential to Ph.D. training, because the problems that social and personality psychologists will study in the coming decades will differ from those currently researched.
	web.gc.cuny.edu /Psychology/socpersonality/index.htm (1136 words)

	What is a Personality/Social Psychologist?
		By exploring forces within the person (such as traits, attitudes, and goals) as well as forces within the situation (such as social norms and incentives), personality and social psychologists seek to unravel the mysteries of individual and social life in areas as wide-ranging as prejudice, romantic attraction, persuasion, friendship, helping, aggression, conformity, and group interaction.
		Although personality psychology has traditionally focused on aspects of the individual, and social psychology on aspects of the situation, the two perspectives are tightly interwoven in psychological explanations of human behavior.
		Most personality and social psychology programs provide financial assistance to their graduate students in the form of teaching or research assistantships, and many schools waive tuition and fees at the graduate level.
	www.spsp.org /what.htm (1158 words)

	Personality - AssessmentPsychology.com
		In psychology, personality is a description of consistent emotional, thought, and behavior patterns in a person.
		The main purpose of a personality model is thus to define the dimensions of personality.
		Correlations of personality scores should resemble a simplex form where opposing types have low correlation and close types have a high correlation.
	www.assessmentpsychology.com /personality.htm (834 words)

	The Personality Project - Psychological Organizations
		The biennial meeting of the European Conference on Personality was held in July, 2004 in Groningen, Netherlands.
		Society of Personality and Social Psychology and the Association of Research in Personality held their 2004 annual meeting in Austin, Texas on January 28th, 2004.
		University of Iowa, Personality and Social Psychology and http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/training3.html
	www.personality-project.org /perproj/org.html (1000 words)

	Personality Psychology--Syllabus
		This course is a survey of theory and research on personality.
		Topics considered include (a) evaluation of the scientific status of theories such as psychoanalysis; (b) various approaches to the nature / nurture controversy, such as behaviorism, evolutionary psychology, and behavior genetics; and (c) questions regarding the proper number of dimensions of personality and intelligence.
		Eysenck, H. Dimensions of personality: 16, 5, or 3?--Criteria for a taxonomic paradigm.
	www.personalityresearch.org /courses/260/syllabus.html (352 words)

	Yale Psychology: Social/Personality Area
		Second, in addition to a strong emphasis on traditional laboratory experiments as the primary tool of the Social/Personality psychologist, the training focus has also encompassed diverse methodologies such as field experimentation, survey techniques, computer simulation, and case studies (where the "case" might be anindividual, group, or organization).
		Finally, the faculty in Social/Personality Psychology is committed to an integration of personality processes and interpersonal influences in the study of human behavior.
		Although students receive classroom training in the essentials of general psychology theory, research methods, history, and the current literature, they are encouraged from their first days at Yale to develop a program of collaborative research with members of the faculty.
	www.yale.edu /psychology/socPers.html (453 words)

	Syllabus for Psychology 238, Spring 2006
		Personality psychology, or personology, is the scientific study of the whole person.
		The first part of the course describes the nature of personality, prescientific and scientific views of personality, and applications toward personnel assessment and the prediction and understanding of violence.
		All students are expected to act with civility, personal integrity; respect other students' dignity, rights and property; and help create and maintain an environment in which all can succeed through the fruits of their own efforts.
	www.personal.psu.edu /faculty/j/5/j5j/psy238/syl238.html (736 words)

	Personality Psychology.
		Robert Benchley (1922): in a delightful article, proposed that personality was a function of which joints were being ground down, and that the bone ground from within at knees and elbows contributed to the criminal personality.
		Personality is the constructs we use and the way that we use them.
		Example: breakage of a possession is 'caused by unconscious desire to harm the person associated with it'.
	members.cruzio.com /~zdino/psychology/personality.psychology.htm (7374 words)

	A Guide to Personality Psychology on the Web -- And In the Scientific Literature, Too (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The SFPP is a framework carefully constructed to comprehensively cover the discipline of personality psychology -- and personality itself -- and to do so impartially (Mayer, 1994; 1998).
		This basic approach to personality is the central part of the Systems Framework for Personality Psychology.
		Mayer, J. A System-Topics Framework for the study of personality.
	www.thepersonalitysystem.org /A%20Guide%20to%20the%20Personality%20System/guidesurvey.htm (417 words)

	Personality Textbook
		This site describes a college-level personality textbook entitled Personality: A Systems Approach, and an associated book of readings, Readings in Personality Psychology.
		The textbook and other materials are organized around a new vision for personality psychology that treats its study as an integrated topic (rather than viewing it, for example, through the lenses of competing theoretical perspectives).
		For an overview of personality organized in a fashion similar to that used in the textbook, see also the following general personality website.
	www.personalitysystem.com (174 words)

	Learn more about Personality psychology in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Learn more about Personality psychology in the online encyclopedia.
		A large part of the work of personality psychologists has been defining what is, and what is not, personality.
		A criticism of personality theory as a whole is that it leads people of little experience in clinical psychology to accept classifications, or worse offer advice, based on superficial analysis of one's profile.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /p/pe/personality_psychology.html (500 words)

	Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Psychology: Personality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Peer Nomination Project - Explores the discrepancies between self-report and informant measures in the assessment of personality and personality disorders.
		Personality Theories - E-text designed for courses in personality theories, addressing psychoanalytic, behavioristic, and humanistic schools of thought, by Dr. C.
		Personality theory on Horney's Role of Narcissism - Novel approach to personality testing by A.M. Benis, M.D., based on the "genetic" traits of narcissism, perfectionism and aggression.
	dmoz.org /Science/Social_Sciences/Psychology/Personality (632 words)

	Psychology Research: Social/Personality Psychology
		Lifespan developmental psychology; psychology of motivation; control behavior across the life span; evolution of regulatory processes in motivation and control.
		Psychology and the law; human judgment and decision making; the use of mathematical and scientific evidence in jury trials, focusing on the introduction of forensic DNA tests; the use in trials of hearsay and character evidence; testimony of children.
		Human and developmental psychology, child care and youth development, work and family, and social and personality psychology.
	www.psychology.uci.edu /research/social.html (525 words)

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