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The Personality Puzzle 5e Hardcover – 5 March 2010
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David Funder
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Organized according to the six main domains of modern personality psychology, David Funder’s market-leading text shows students the field as it exists in the present. By incorporating significant coverage of the great theorists of personality psychology throughout, the book helps students understand how the field developed. And by showcasing the questions driving the research of today, The Personality Puzzle enables students to see the exciting future of the discipline.
For the Fifth Edition, every chapter has been updated. A new illustration program supports visual learners with updated versions of the book’s much-loved cartoons and new in-text features to help students visualize and remember concepts. The text covers classic theories of personality as well as all the latest findings, including up-to-date coverage of the biological domain, new material on cross-cultural psychology, and expanded treatment of positive psychology.
As always, The Personality Puzzle is a book that students will read, enjoy, and remember, with a writing style that is engaging, distinctive, and humorous.
For the Fifth Edition, every chapter has been updated. A new illustration program supports visual learners with updated versions of the book’s much-loved cartoons and new in-text features to help students visualize and remember concepts. The text covers classic theories of personality as well as all the latest findings, including up-to-date coverage of the biological domain, new material on cross-cultural psychology, and expanded treatment of positive psychology.
As always, The Personality Puzzle is a book that students will read, enjoy, and remember, with a writing style that is engaging, distinctive, and humorous.
- Print length758 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date5 March 2010
- Dimensions20.07 x 3.56 x 24.38 cm
- ISBN-100393933482
- ISBN-13978-0393933482
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About the Author
David C. Funder is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and former chair of the department at the University of California, Riverside. Winner of the 2009 Jack Block Award for Distinguished Research in Personality, he is a former editor of the Journal of Research in Personality, and a past president of the Association for Research in Personality as well as the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. He is best known for his research on personality judgment and has also published research on delay of gratification, attribution theory, the longitudinal course of personality development, and the psychological assessment of situations. He has taught personality psychology to undergraduates at Harvey Mudd College, Harvard University, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and continues to teach the course every year at the University of California, Riverside.
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- Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company; Fifth edition (5 March 2010)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 758 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0393933482
- ISBN-13 : 978-0393933482
- Dimensions : 20.07 x 3.56 x 24.38 cm
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- MaryReviewed in the United States on 26 September 2011
5.0 out of 5 stars The Personality Puzzle
Verified PurchaseThe textbook arrived quickly which was a plus. The price was great too. I was able to save about $65 buying it brand new on Amazon versus the bookstore at the university. I will definitely be buying more textbooks from amazon in the future.
- MikeReviewed in the United States on 15 June 2015
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book, but not perfect
Verified PurchaseYes, David C. Funder has a politically liberal bias but this is a good textbook. It is summative with just the right amount (ok, sometimes too much) analysis. I found it a good read, even though he knocks physical science, and my conservative views.
- zagReviewed in the United States on 22 May 2013
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book with Well Rounded Material
Verified PurchaseThis text is very well written by a current psychologist of our era. The text makes sure to explain many of the aspects of the human mind in terms of metaphors that are easy to understand. The text is easy to read and makes the statistics (although somewhat heavily for a non stats course) a breeze to understand. Funder is great!