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Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature
  • Author : Randy Larsen
  • Release Date : 28 October 2009
  • Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
  • Genre : Psychology
  • Pages : 752
  • ISBN 13 : 0073370681
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Book Description: Using a novel organizational framework, one that emphasizes domains of knowledge about human nature, this trusted text presents the field of contemporary personality psychology as a collection of interrelated topics and themes. The emphasis, as always, is on the scientific basis of understanding human nature. The fourth edition continues to answer the needs of instructors by covering topics that do not fit into the framework of theory-based texts. It features updates on cutting edge trends in personality psychology in relation to culture, gender, evolution, genetics, emotion, self, health psychology, and personality disorders, while providing a solid foundation in the more traditional areas of trait psychology, psychoanalysis, and cognitive and social approaches to personality. Presented in a colorful and accessible format, the provides exercises, personality questionnaires, "Closer Look" boxes, current news boxes, and many charts, graphs, and photos to engage students in the material.

Personality Psychology Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature

Personality Psychology Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature

Author : Randy Larsen,David Buss
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Genre : Psychology
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Using a novel organizational framework, one that emphasizes domains of knowledge about human nature, this trusted text presents the field of contemporary personality psychology as a collection of interrelated topics and themes. The emphasis, as always, is on the scientific basis of understanding human nature. The fourth edition continues to ...

Personality Psychology

Personality Psychology

Author : Randy J. Larsen,Buss
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Genre : Personality
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Randy Larsen and David Buss dynamically demonstrate how scientists approach the study of personality in Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature. Major findings, both classical and contemporary, are presented in the context of six key domains--Dispositional, Biological, Intrapsychic, Cognitive/Experimental, Social and/Culture, and Adjustment--providing a foundation for ...

Personality Psychology

Personality Psychology

Author : Randy J. Larsen,David M. Buss
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Personality
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"We have devoted our lives to the study of personality and believe this field is one of the most exciting in all of psychology. Thus we were enormously gratified to see the volume of e-mails, letters, and comments from satisfied consumers. At the same time, preparing the seventh edition proved ...

Personality Psychology

Personality Psychology

Author : Randy J. Larsen,David Buss,Andreas Anne Johannes Wismeijer,John Song
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Personality
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"In this 6th edition of Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature, Randy Larsen and David Buss dynamically demonstrate how scientists approach the study of personality. Major findings, both classical and contemporary, are presented in the context of six key domains: Dispositional, Biological, Intrapsychic, Cognitive/Experimental, Social and Cultural, ...

Personality Psychology Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature

Personality Psychology Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature

Author : Randy Larsen,David Buss
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Genre : Psychology
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Completely updated with new research and more student-friendly cases and examples, the third edition has additional coverage of the historical roots of personality psychology; and more evaluation of strengths and weaknesses of various data sources and studies....

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Publisher : SAGE Publications
Genre : Psychology
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A Treatise of Human Nature

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Author : David Hume
Publisher : Penguin UK
Genre : Philosophy
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One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to apply scientific methods of observation to a study of human nature, and a vigorous attack upon the principles ...

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Publisher : CRC Press
Genre : Computers
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Author : John Dupré
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Genre : Science
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John Dupre warns that our understanding of human nature is being distorted by two faulty and harmful forms of pseudo-scientific thinking. Not just in the academic world but increasingly in everyday life, we find one set of experts seeking to explain the ends at which humans aim in terms ofevolutionary ...

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Author : Ievgen Redko,Emilie Morvant,Amaury Habrard,Marc Sebban,Younès Bennani
Publisher : Elsevier
Genre : Computers
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Advances in Domain Adaptation Theory gives current, state-of-the-art results on transfer learning, with a particular focus placed on domain adaptation from a theoretical point-of-view. The book begins with a brief overview of the most popular concepts used to provide generalization guarantees, including sections on Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC), Rademacher, PAC-Bayesian, Robustness and ...

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Author : David Brooks
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Genre : Social Science
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how ...