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PART I: FUNDAMENTAL CONTEXTS. 1. Introduction: Studying the Person. 2. Human Evolution. 3. Freud and the Psychoanalytic Tradition. 4. Social Learning and Culture. PART II: DISPOSITIONAL TRAITS. 5. Personality Traits: Basic Concepts and Issues. 6. The Big Five. 7. Traits Across the Lifespan: Continuity and Change. PART III: CHARACTERISTIC APPLICATIONS. 8. Motives and Goals. 9. Social-Cognitive Adaptations: Construing the Self and Social Behavior. 10. Developmental Adaptations: Erikson and Loevinger. PART IV: INTEGRATIVE LIFE STORIES. 11. Life Scripts, Life Stories. 12. Writing Stories of Lives: Biography of the Life Course. Glossary. References. Copyrights and Acknowledgments. Name Index. Subject Index.