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Title Pioneers of personality science : autobiographical perspectives / Stephen Strack, Bill N. Kinder, editors
Published New York : Springer Pub. Co., ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 431 pages) : illustrations
Contents Foreword / Irving B. Weiner -- Preface / Stephen Strack and Bill N. Kinder -- My unexpected life / Jack Block -- Pathways / Arnold H. Buss -- Discontinuities, side steps, and finding a proper place: an autobiographical account / James N. Butcher -- Report on myself: the science and/or art of assessment / Richard H. Dana -- Psychologist grows in Brooklyn: reflections from the past / Leonard Handler -- Lifelong attempt to understand and assess personality / Robert R. Holt -- Over half a century of playing with inkblots and other wondrous pursuits / Wayne H. Holtzman -- Have PhD, will travel / Samuel Karson -- From Freud to Gehrig to Rapaport to DiMaggio / Paul M. Lerner -- Confessions of an iconoclast: at home on the fringe / Jane Loevinger -- Speak, memory, or goodbye, Columbus / Joseph Masling -- Blessed and charmed personal odyssey / Theodore Millon -- Ideas from my undergraduate years: an autobiographical fragment / Edwin S. Shneidman -- Chance and choice: change and continuity: that's life / Norman D. Sundberg -- Shaping of personality: genes, environments, and chance encounters / Marvin Zuckerman
Summary The field of personology or personality is enjoying great growth, spurred by findings from behavior genetics, evolutionary psychology, rethinking of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders definition of personality disorders, and advances in test construction and psychometrics . This book traces the development of the field, written by those who were the pioneers of personality assessment. Sixteen autobiographical chapters written by the pioneers of personality assessment trace the development of the field. With accompanying photos and a concise bibliography from each contrib
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Psychologists -- Biography
Personality -- History
Psychology.
Personality.
Psychology
Personality
psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Personality.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
Psychology
Personality
Psychologists
Persoonlijkheidsleer.
Psychologen.
Verenigde Staten.
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Herinneringen (vorm)
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Strack, Stephen
Kinder, Bill N., 1946-
ISBN 9780826132048
0826132049
1281813257
9781281813251