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Personality in Adulthood

A Five-factor Theory Perspective

By: Robert R. McCrae,Paul T. Costa

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Personality in Adulthood

A Five-factor Theory Perspective

By: Robert R. McCrae,Paul T. Costa

This influential work examines how enduring dispositions or traits affect the process of aging and shape each individual's life course. From two well-known authorities in the field, the volume is grounded in a growing body of empirical evidence. Critically reviewing different theories of personality and adult development, the authors explain the logic behind the scientific assessment of personality, present a comprehensive model of trait structure, and examine patterns of trait stability and change after age 30, incorporating data from ongoing cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. Written in a clear, jargon-free style, this book is an ideal text for advanced students and a timely reference for researchers and clinicians.

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Guilford Press

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1572308273

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Personality in Adulthood

A Five-Factor Theory Perspective

By: Paul T. Costa, Jr.,Robert R. McCrae

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Personality in Adulthood

A Five-Factor Theory Perspective

By: Paul T. Costa, Jr.,Robert R. McCrae

Now in a revised and expanded second edition, this influential work argues for the enduring stability of personality across adult development. It also offers a highly accessible introduction to the five-factor model of personality. Critically reviewing different theories of personality and adult development, the authors explain the logic behind the scientific assessment of personality, present a comprehensive model of trait structure, and examine patterns of trait stability and change after age 30, incorporating data from ongoing cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. The second edition has been updated throughout with the authors' new findings, ideas, and interpretations, and includes a new chapter on cross-cultural research. It culminates in an additional new chapter that presents a comprehensive theory of personality grounded in the five-factor model.

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233

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Routledge

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1135459711

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The Cult of Personality Testing

How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves

By: Annie Murphy Paul

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The Cult of Personality Testing

How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves

By: Annie Murphy Paul

Award-winning psychology writer Annie Paul delivers a scathing exposé on the history and effects of personality tests. Millions of people worldwide take personality tests each year to direct their education, to decide on a career, to determine if they'll be hired, to join the armed forces, and to settle legal disputes. Yet, according to award-winning psychology writer Annie Murphy Paul, the sheer number of tests administered obscures a simple fact: they don't work. Most personality tests are seriously flawed, and sometimes unequivocally wrong. They fail the field's own standards of validity and reliability. They ask intrusive questions. They produce descriptions of people that are nothing like human beings as they actually are: complicated, contradictory, changeable across time and place. The Cult Of Personality Testing documents, for the first time, the disturbing consequences of these tests. Children are being labeled in limiting ways. Businesses and the government are wasting hundreds of millions of dollars every year, only to make ill-informed decisions about hiring and firing. Job seekers are having their privacy invaded and their rights trampled, and our judicial system is being undermined by faulty evidence. Paul's eye-opening chronicle reveals the fascinating history behind a lucrative and largely unregulated business. Captivating, insightful, and sometimes shocking, The Cult Of Personality Testing offers an exhilarating trip into the human mind and heart.

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326

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Simon and Schuster

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1451604068

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9781451604061

Understanding the New European Data Protection Rules

By: Paul Lambert

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Understanding the New European Data Protection Rules

By: Paul Lambert

Compared to the US, European data and privacy protection rules seem Draconian. The European rules apply to any enterprise doing business in the EU. The new rules are far more stringent than the last set. This book is a quick guide to the directives for companies, particularly US, that have to comply with them. Where US organizations and businesses who collect or receive EU personal data fail to comply with the rule, the bottom line can suffer from very significant official fines and penalties, as well as from users, customers or representative bodies to pursuing litigation. This guide is essential for all US enterprises who directly or indirectly deal with EU personal data.

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498

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CRC Press

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1351630083

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Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry

A Paradigm for Integrated Care

By: Paul Volberding

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Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry

A Paradigm for Integrated Care

By: Paul Volberding

The 'Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry' provides insight into the interface between the psychiatric, medical, and social dimensions of HIV and AIDS and the need for a compassionate, integrated, and approach to the HIV pandemic with an emphasis on humanizing destigmatizing HIV

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Oxford University Press

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0199392749

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9780199392742

Humanism in Personology

Allport, Maslow, and Murray

By: Paul Costa

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Humanism in Personology

Allport, Maslow, and Murray

By: Paul Costa

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243

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Routledge

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1351514237

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Forever and Ever, Amen

By: Paul Overstreet

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Forever and Ever, Amen

By: Paul Overstreet

This is a collection of the heartwarming stories behind the music of Paul Overstreet.

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Treasure House

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0768430070

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9780768430073

Captain Paul Watson Interview

"You can't destroy a movement""

By: Paul Watson,Sarah Schuster,Michele Sciurba

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Captain Paul Watson Interview

"You can't destroy a movement""

By: Paul Watson,Sarah Schuster,Michele Sciurba

You can take down an individual, you can take down an organization, but you can't destroy a movement." Paul Watson Captain Paul Watson, honored with the Jules Verne Award for his environmental activism in 2012, is a fighter with a clear mission: to protect the world's oceans from illegal exploitation and environmental destruction. "If the oceans die, we die." For decades, Paul Watson has risked his life for the conservation and well-being of marine life. At the age of 27, he founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. In 1978, the Sea Shepherd became the first ship of the now world-famous fleet with the Jolly Roger flag, modified with a trident and shepherd's crook. In a new expanded edition, including a second interview and numerous extraordinary images from the Sea Shepherd archives, Watson vividly recounts the exciting stages of his unique life, opening up an exclusive insight into his highly politicized arrest in Frankfurt in 2012 and his adventurous escape that sent him on a nerve-wracking journey filled with storms and obstacles.

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153

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Edition Faust

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3949774017

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Personality Matters

The Translator’s Personality in the Process of Self-Revision

By: Olha Lehka-Paul

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Personality Matters

The Translator’s Personality in the Process of Self-Revision

By: Olha Lehka-Paul

The analysis of translated texts and investigations into the cognitive mechanisms involved in the process of translation are burgeoning areas of research in translation studies. Personality Matters ventures into a previously uncharted territory in its exploration of the psychological and cognitive characteristics of a translator. Combining psychology and translation process research, this groundbreaking study identifies personality traits that distinguish translators from non-translators, and shows that the translator’s personality matters in translation, especially in the process of self-revision. The individual translator thus stands central in Personality Matters – making this book a topical contribution to translation studies as it continues to evolve in taking account of the people behind the ubiquity of translation in the modern globalized world.

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279

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Leuven University Press

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946270239X

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9789462702394

The Human Odyssey

Life-span Development

By: Paul S. Kaplan

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The Human Odyssey

Life-span Development

By: Paul S. Kaplan

In The Human Odyssey: Life-Span Development, Third Edition, Paul S. Kaplan embarks the reader on a sweeping journey through life, examining the physical and intellectual changes we undergo from conception through death. Now thoroughly updated with more multicultural material and numerous new features, this book continues to skillfully build on the basic themes of life-span development. Kaplan's chronological approach allows the reader to examine the entire human life experience, whereas many life-span books are weighted in childhood and adolescence. And by putting experiences into context--such as the family, school and community, and culture--the author is able to include a level of applied information that consistently maintains student interest.

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628

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Wadsworth Publishing Company

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053434951X

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9780534349516

Dual Resonance Models and Superstrings

By: Paul H. Frampton

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Dual Resonance Models and Superstrings

By: Paul H. Frampton

This is an excellent book on dual model and string theories. This updated issue of the author's book ?Dual Resonance Models? has new chapters on string theories added to it. This new volume therefore provides much background on the non-symmetrical aspects as well as modern development in the theory of strong interactions. This is a must for high energy physicists.

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World Scientific

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9971500809

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9789971500801

Neuroplasticity

New biochemical mechanisms

By: Jean-Paul Macher,Jean-Pierre Olié

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Neuroplasticity

New biochemical mechanisms

By: Jean-Paul Macher,Jean-Pierre Olié

New research into neuroplasticity is a fascinating new research angle that could lead to improvements in therapy for the depressive disorders. In this volume, researchers in the field contribute chapters examining different aspects of this phenomenon. Figures and tables help explain complicated concepts This book provides a new angle on the treatment of depressive disorders

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1908517182

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Groupthink or Deadlock

When Do Leaders Learn from Their Advisors?

By: Paul A. Kowert

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Groupthink or Deadlock

When Do Leaders Learn from Their Advisors?

By: Paul A. Kowert

The danger of groupthink is now standard fare in leadership training programs and a widely accepted explanation, among political scientists, for policy-making fiascoes. Efforts to avoid groupthink, however, can lead to an even more serious problem—deadlock. Groupthink or Deadlock explores these dual problems in the Eisenhower and Reagan administrations and demonstrates how both presidents were capable of learning and consequently changing their policies, sometimes dramatically, but at the same time doing so in characteristically different ways. Kowert points to the need for leaders to organize their staff in a way that fits their learning and leadership style and allows them to negotiate a path between groupthink and deadlock.

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State University of New York Press

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0791489205

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9780791489208

Humanism in Personology

Allport, Maslow, and Murray

By: Salvatore R. Maddi,Paul T. Costa, Jr.

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Humanism in Personology

Allport, Maslow, and Murray

By: Salvatore R. Maddi,Paul T. Costa, Jr.

Through analysis of the lives and theories of the three major exponents of humanism, Allport, Maslow, and Murray, the authors have marshaled some compelling arguments for an alternative to the extreme behaviorism of Skinner and the logical positivism of Freud. This work is a concise, clear synthesis of both broad theoretical positions and specific concepts that underlie humanistic psychology. The "Third Force" (humanism) suggests that man possesses both freedom and dignity and that he possesses them in the face of an often hostile and coercive society. Thus, exponents of humanism conducted their personality experiments in a natural environment, imposing few, if any, external controls. A compact example of critical evaluation at its best, Humanism in Personology stands alone in its successful attempt to correlate the theory of humanism as it exists today with an incisive study of the men who shaped its course. Maddi and Costa proceed from the level of metatheory to a lucid presentation of the specific constructs of three personality psychologists. The book contains an extensive theoretical summary table explaining the theoretical differences between Allport, Maslow, and Murray. Also featured is a comprehensive glossary of personality terms which is exceedingly valuable for new students in the field. Intended as a supplementary text for undergraduate courses in personality, social psychology, human development, human socialization, or philosophy, this work is also a valuable resource for clinicians, teachers, guidance counselors, graduates, and undergraduates in psychology. Salvatore R. Maddi is professor at the department of psychology and social behavior, school of social ecology, at the University of California, Irvine. His special concerns are stress management and creativity. He is the author of many books and journal articles and is on the Board of Directors for the International Network on Personal Meaning. Paul T. Costa is Senior Investigator Chief, Personality, Stress, and Coping Section at the Laboratory of Personality and Cognition at the National Institute on Aging.

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Transaction Publishers

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0202366634

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Humanism in Personology

Allport, Maslow, and Murray

By: Salvatore R. Maddi,Paul T. Costa

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Allport, Maslow, and Murray

By: Salvatore R. Maddi,Paul T. Costa

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Personality in Adulthood

Personality in Adulthood

Personality in Adulthood

Personality in Adulthood

The Cult of Personality Testing

The Cult of Personality Testing

Understanding the New European Data Protection Rules

Understanding the New European Data Protection Rules

Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry

Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry

Humanism in Personology

Humanism in Personology

Forever and Ever, Amen

Forever and Ever, Amen

Captain Paul Watson Interview

Captain Paul Watson Interview

Personality Matters

Personality Matters

The Human Odyssey

The Human Odyssey

Dual Resonance Models and Superstrings

Dual Resonance Models and Superstrings

Neuroplasticity

Neuroplasticity

Groupthink or Deadlock

Groupthink or Deadlock

Humanism in Personology

Humanism in Personology

Humanism in Personology

Humanism in Personology

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