A Systems Organization INTRODUCTORY ISSUES 1. Reading Personality Psychology: Frequently Asked Questions What Does It Mean to Read Personality Psychology? Why Read Primary and Secondary Source Material? Concluding Comments 2. Teaching Personality Psychology: The Professors Debate Reading a Professional Newsletter Teaching Personality (Brief comments by) M. Leary, J.D. Mayer, R. Hogan, R. Wheeler, R. Osborne, R. Baumeister, and D. Tice Concluding Comments 3. Thinking Big about Personality Psychology Encountering the Big Picture What Do We Know When We Know a Person? D.P. Mcadams Concluding Comments 4. The Proper Use of Psychological Tests: An Expert Speaks An Expert s Expert What Counselors Should Know about the Use and Interpretation Psychological Tests A. Anastasi Concluding Comments PARTS OF PERSONALITY 5. Exploring Parts of Personality with a Quasi-Experimental Design Reading an Empirical Research Report Sensations Seeking and the Need for Achievement among Study-Abroad Students M. Schroth Concluding Comments 6. Exploring Parts of Personality with a Field Study Reading about Field Study Study Habits and Eyesenck s Theory of Extraversion-Introversion J. B. Campbell & C. Hawley Concluding Comments 7. Reading Programmatic Research: Studies about the Self Reading Programmatic Research Possible Selves H. Markus And P. Nuris Concluding Comments 8. How Good Is the Measure of the Parts? Reading a Test Review Review of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children J.P. Braden Concluding Comments 9. Some Funny Stuff On Professional Humor The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory A. Rosen; A Brief Report on Clinical Aspects of Procrastination K. Alberding, D. Antonuccio, & B.H. Tearnan Concluding Comments PERSONALITY ORGANIZATION 10. Reading Freud on Psychodynamics Reading Freud and The Early-20th Century Grand Theorists Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis ( From Lectures II, III and IV) S. Freud Concluding Comments 11. Personality Dynamics in a Clinical Case Study Reading a Case Study Possibly False Confession in a Military Court-Martial: A Case Study S. A. Talmadge Concluding Comments 12. Dynamics of Self-Control Studying Personality Processes (Quasi-) Experimentally Defensive Self-Deception and Social Adaptation among Optimists J. Norem Concluding Comments 13. Changing Personality Reading a Summary of Studies Writing about Emotional Experiences as a Therapeutic Process J. W. Pennebaker Concluding Comments PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT 14. Studying Personality across Time Reading Longitudinal Research Transactional Links between Personality and Adaptation for Childhood through Adulthood R. Shiner and A. Masten Concluding Comments 15. Reviewing a Book on Personality Developments Using Book Reviews Peering into the Nature-Nuture Debate W. Williams; Parents and Personality R. Plomin Concluding Comments 16. A Stage Theory of Development Help from a Grand Theorist Eight Ages of Man E. Erikson Concluding Comments 17. Re-Envisioning Development: Updating the Greats Reading Back to the Future Emerging Adulthood: A Theory of Development for the Late Teens through the Twenties J. J. Arnett Concluding Comments Editor s References
