The Person: An Introduction to the Science of Personality Psychology

Part I: The Background: Persons, Human Nature, and Culture 1 1. Studying the Person 2. Evolution and Human Nature 3. Social Learning and Culture Part II: Sketching the Outline: Dispositional Traits and the Prediction of Behavior 4. Personality Traits: Fundamental Concepts and Issues 5. Five Basic Traits - In the Brain and in Behavior 6. Continuity and Change in Traits: The Role of Genes, Environments, and Time Part III: Filling in the Details: Characteristic Adaptations to Life Tasks 7. Motives and Goals: What Do We Want in Life? 8. Self and Other: Social-Cognitive Aspects of Personality 9. Developmental Stages and Tasks Part IV: Making a Life: The Stories We Live By 10. Life Scripts, Life Stories 11. The Interpretation of Stories: From Freud to Today 12. Writing Stories of Lives: Biography and Life Course