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1 Reading: The Society for the Teaching of Psychology’s version of Professor Brian R. Little’s “Personality Psychology: Havings, Doings, and Beings in Context”
Link: The Society for the Teaching of Psychology’s version of Professor Brian R. Little’s "Personality Psychology: Havings, Doings, and Beings in Context” (HTML)
Instructions: Please click on the link above and read the entirety of this webpage, which provides an overview of the defining characteristics of personality psychology.
Note on the Text: Brian R. Little holds joint positions as Distinguished Professor of Research at Carleton University and Lecturer at Harvard University. He is also an Affiliated Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard University.
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1.1 Reading: Personality Project: Dr. William Revelle’s (1995) “Personality Processes”
Link: Personality Project: Dr. William Revelle’s (1995) "Personality Processes" (HTML)
Instructions: Please note that this reading covers subunits 1.1.1-1.1.5 and is geared toward introducing you to the breadth of research in personality psychology. Please click the link above, and then scroll down towards the middle of the page to the section above “Biological Approaches” and click on the PDF version of the article entitled “Personality Processes” by William Revelle. Please read this entire article in its entirety by starting with the section labeled Introduction and using the "continue" links at the bottom of each page.
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1.2 Reading: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: A Biosocial Approach: “Science and Methods”
Link: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: A Biosocial Approach: "Science and Methods" (HTML)
Instructions: Please note that this reading covers subunits 1.2.1-1.2.3. Please read the entirety of this webpage. If viewing the PDF version, just read from the Introduction through section 1.4.
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1.3.1 Reading: Research Methods Knowledge Base: William M. K. Trochim’s “Key Elements of a Journal Article” and Muhlenberg College’s Find, Read, and Cite Psychology Articles: “Reading Articles”
Links: Research Methods Knowledge Base: William M. K. Trochim’s "Key Elements of a Journal Article" (HTML) and Muhlenberg College’s Find, Read, and Cite Psychology Articles :"Reading Articles" (HTML)
Instruction: Please read the entirety of the webpage entitled “Key Elements of a Journal Article.” Then, for the Find, Read, and Cite Psychology Articles text, please only read the “Reading Articles” section in its entirety. For an optional review, you may want to look over the first section on finding articles and the last section on citing journals in a research paper on Muhlenberg College’s website linked above.
Note on the Texts: These readings will provide you with an overview of the anatomy of a journal article and provide recommendations for how to read empirical journal articles at an undergraduate level. If you have recalled this information from the social psychology course, feel free to skim the contents.
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1.3.2 Reading: University of Waterloo: Professor Christian H. Jordan’s and Professor Mark P. Zanna’s “How to Read a Journal Article in Social Psychology”
Link: University of Waterloo: Professor Christian H. Jordan’s and Professor Mark P. Zanna’s "How to Read a Journal Article in Social Psychology" (HTML)
Instructions: Please click on the link, and read the entirety of this webpage. If you have recalled this information from the social psychology course, feel free to skim the contents.
Note on the Text: Although this reading refers to social psychology, it will also help you to gain a more in depth perspective in reading personality psychological research articles. This article, which provides the anatomy of a research report, was originallypublished in R. F. Baumeister’s (ed.) The Self in Social Psychology (pp. 461-470), published in Philadelphia by Psychology Press and is now located through the University of Waterloo’s website.
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1.4 Reading: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: A Biosocial Approach: “Consciousness” and “Perception”
Link: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: A Biosocial Approach: "Consciousness" (HTML) and "Perception" (HTML)
Instructions: Please note that this reading covers subunits 1.4.1-1.4.4. Please read the entirety of these webpages.
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1.5 Reading: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: A Biosocial Approach: “Interaction”
Link: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: A Biosocial Approach: "Interaction" (HTML)
Instructions: Please note that this reading covers subunits 1.5.1-1.5.5. Please read the entirety of this webpage.
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1.6 Reading: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: A Biosocial Approach: “Adaptation”
Link: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: A Biosocial Approach: "Adaptation" (HTML)
Instructions: Please note that this reading covers subunits 1.6.1-1.6.4. Please this webpage in its entirety.
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2.3 Reading: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories:“Sigmund Freud” and Personality Pedagogy’s version of Sigmund Freud’s “The Anatomy of the Mental Personality” (1933)
Links: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: "Sigmund Freud" (PDF) and Personality Pedagogy’s version of Sigmund Freud’s "The Anatomy of the Mental Personality"(1933) (HTML)
Instructions: These readings will cover subunits 2.3.1-2.3.4. For the first reading, please click on the above link, scroll down the webpage, and click on the hyperlink after “download” titled “Personality Psychology” to open the PDF file. Read pages 17- 25. For the second reading, please click on the link and read the entirety of the webpage.
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2.4 Reading: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: "Anna Freud," "Carl Jung," "Karen Horney," and "Alfred Adler" and “Erik Erikson”
Links: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: "Anna Freud," "Carl Jung," "Karen Horney," "Alfred Adler, " and "Erik Erikson"
Note: All the websites above are in HTML format.
Instructions: These readings cover subunits 2.4.1-2.4.5. Please click on the links above and read the entirety of these webpages.
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2.5 Reading: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: “Carl Rogers” and York University: Dr. Christopher D. Green’s version of Carl Rogers’s (1947) "Some Observations on the Organization of Personality"
Link: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: "Carl Rogers" (HTML) and York University: Dr. Christopher D. Green’s version of Carl Rogers’s (1947) "Some Observations on the Organization of Personality" (HTML)
Instructions: Please note that these readings cover subunits 2.5.1-2.5.5. Please click on the above links and read the entirety of these webpages.
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2.5.6 Reading: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: “Abraham Maslow”
Link: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: "Abraham Maslow” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read the webpage in its entirety.
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3.1 Reading: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: “Albert Ellis” and REBT Network: Dr. William J. Knaus’s “Rational Emotive Education”
Link: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: "Albert Ellis" (HTML) and REBT Network: Dr. William J. Knaus’s "Rational Emotive Education" (PDF)
Instructions: These readings will cover subunits 3.1.1-3.1.3. For the first reading, please read the entirety of the webpage entitled “Albert Ellis.” For the second reading, please click on the link above and scroll down to the “NEWS” section on the right hand side of the webpage. Click on and download the free e-book entitled “Rational Emotive Education.” Once downloaded, please read pages 9-37 (as indicated in the PDF bar at the top of the screen), which includes Part I, II, III, and IV. The first three parts will provide you with an introduction to the basic theory and assumptions of the rational emotive behavior therapy. The last part will provide you with an example of how this theory can be applied to real life situations. Feel free to peruse the “background for the teacher” section of the remaining parts, as this will provide further useful information regarding rational emotive theory.
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3.3.3 Reading: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: “George Kelly”
Link: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: "George Kelly" (HTML)
Instructions: This reading will cover subunit 3.2.3 and introduce you to subunit 5.3. Please click on the link above, scroll down and read the sections entitled “Theory,” “Psychopathology and Therapy,” and “Discussion,” which will provide you with more information regarding George Kelly’s Fundamental Postulate and 11 Corollaries.
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3.4.4 Reading: Toward an Ecology of the Mind: Professor Vincent Kenny’s “The Psychological Reconstruction of Life: An Introduction to Personal Construct Psychotherapy”
Link: Toward an Ecology of the Mind: Professor Vincent Kenny’s "The Psychological Reconstruction of Life: An Introduction to Personal Construct Psychotherapy" (HTML)
Instructions: Please read the entirety of this webpage to gain a more in-depth sense of George Kelly’s theory and created form of psychotherapy.
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3.5 Reading: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: “B.F. Skinner”
Link: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: "B.F. Skinner" (HTML)
Instructions: Please note that this reading covers subunits 3.5.1-3.5.2. Please read the entirety of this webpage.
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4.1 Reading: AllPsych Online’s version of Dr. Christopher L. Heffner’s Personality Theory: An Introduction: “Trait Theory” and Personality Project’s Dr. William Revelle’s “Taxonomies of Individual Differences”
Links: AllPsych Online’s version of Dr. Christopher L. Heffner’s PersonalityTheory: An Introduction: "Chapter 7: Trait Theory" (HTML) and Personality Project’s Dr. William Revelle’s "Taxonomies of Individual Differences" (HTML)
Instructions: For the first reading, please read all sections in “Chapter 7: Trait Theory.” For the second reading, please read up until the bullet pointed sections. These brief readings will help to introduce you to the history and current state of trait theory. These readings will cover subunits 4.1.1-4.1.4, and you are also responsible for any readings specified within each subunit.
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4.1.4 Reading: Dr. Scott Acton’s Great Ideas in Personality Website’s version of Dr. Heather M. Fehriinger’s "Contributions and Limitations of Cattell's 16 Personality Factor Model"
Link: Dr. Scott Acton’s Great Ideas in Personality Website’s version of Dr. Heather M. Fehriinger’s "Contributions and Limitations of Cattell's 16 Personality Factor Model" (HTML)
Instructions: Please read the entirety of this article. This reading both provides information regarding Cattell’s 16 Personality Factor Model and provides critiques/comments of this theory.
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4.1.5 Reading: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: “Hans Eysenck”
Link: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: "Hans Eysenck" (HTML)
Instructions: Please read the sections entitled “Biography,” “Theory,” and “Discussion.”
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4.2 Reading: Berkeley Personality Lab’s Version of Dr. Oliver P. John, Dr. Laura P. Naumann, and Dr. Christopher J. Soto’s (2008) “Paradigm Shift to the Integrative Big Five Trait Taxonomy”
Link: Berkeley Personality Lab’s Version of Dr. Oliver P. John, Dr. Laura P. Naumann, and Dr. Christopher J. Soto’s (2008) "Paradigm Shift to the Integrative Big Five Trait Taxonomy" (PDF)
Instructions: This reading will cover subunits 4.2.1-4.2.7. Please click on “Download PDF” to get the PDF version of this chapter. Read the entirety of this chapter to gain a better sense of issues related to the development of the taxonomic 5-factor personality model. You may skim the sections entitled “Cross-Language and Cross-Cultural Studies,” “Defining the Big 5 across Studies: The Prototype Approach,” and “Measurement: Comparing Big 5 Instruments.”
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4.3 Reading: University of Iowa’s Current Research in Social Psychology: Dr. Simon Moss and Ms. Sigmon Ngu’s “The Relationship between Personality and Leadership Preferences” and Blinn College: Dr. Michelle N. Shiota and Dr. Robert W. Levenson’s “Birds of a Feather Don’t Always Fly Farthest: Similarity in Big Five Personality Predicts More Negative Marital Satisfaction Trajectories in Long-Te
Links: University of Iowa’s Current Research in Social Psychology: Dr. Simon Moss and Ms. Sigmon Ngu’s “The Relationship between Personality and Leadership Preferences” (PDF) and Blinn College: Dr. Michelle N. Shiota and Dr. Robert W. Levenson’s “Birds of a Feather Don’t Always Fly Farthest: Similarity in Big Five Personality Predicts More Negative Marital Satisfaction Trajectories in Long-Term Marriages" (PDF)
Instructions: For the first reading, please scroll down the webpage until you reach the hyperlink titled “Volume 11, No. 6.” Then, click on this hyperlink, and read this entire empirical journal article as advised by the readings presented in section 1.2. For the second reading, please scroll down and select the "Shiota and Levenson" link under "Psychology Articles."
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5.1 Reading: Google Scholar: Dr. David M. Buss’s (1990) "Towards a Biologically Informed Psychology of Personality"
Links: Google Scholar: Dr. David M. Buss’s (1990) "Towards a Biologically Informed Psychology of Personality" (PDF)
Instructions: Please click on the hyperlink “[PDF] from utexas.edu” to download the PDF file of the article entitled “Towards a Biologically Informed Psychology of Personality.” Please read this article in its entirety.
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5.2 Reading: University of California, Santa Barbara: Dr. Leda Cosmides and Dr. John Tooby’s “Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer”
Link: University of California, Santa Barbara: Dr. Leda Cosmides and Dr. John Tooby’s "Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer" (HTML)
Instructions: Please read the entirety of this webpage to gain a better sense of the theoretical background and research findings in evolutionary psychology. As you are reading this section, please use the information presented in the previous reading for subunit 5.1 as a framework to reflect on the following question: How can evolutionary psychology inform personality psychology?
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5.3 Reading: Advancing Science Serving Society and the Hastings Center: Catherine Baker’s Behavioral Genetics: “Chapters 1, 6, and 7”
Link: Advancing Sciences Serving Society and the Hastings Center: Catherine Baker’s Behavioral Genetics: “Chapters 1, 6, and 7" (PDF)
Instructions: Please click on the hyperlinks for each chapter on this webpage. Please read these chapters in their entirety. Chapter 1 will address the field of behavioral genetics. Chapter 6 will address how behavioral genetics helps explain the ability to control impulses (a trait-like characteristic). Chapter 7 will address how behavioral genetics helps explain the gene-environment interaction that contributes to intelligence, a cognitive ability often studied in personality psychology.
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6.1.1 Reading: Information on Self-Efficacy: Community of Scholar’s version of Professor Albert Bandura’s “Autobiography”
Link: Information on Self-Efficacy: Community of Scholar’s version of Professor Albert Bandura’s "Autobiography" (HTML)
Instructions: Please read the entirety of this webpage.
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6.1.2 Reading: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: “Albert Bandura” and Emory University: Information on Self-Efficacy: Community of Scholar’s version of Professor Albert Bandura’s “The Role of Imitation in Personality Development”
Links: Dr. C. George Boeree’s Personality Theories: "Albert Bandura" (HTML) and Emory University: Information on Self-Efficacy: Community of Scholar’s version of Professor Albert Bandura’s “The Role of Imitation in Personality Development” (PDF)
Instructions: For the first reading, read the entirety of the webpage for a biography and information on the theories of Albert Bandura. For the second reading, please scroll down the webpage to the hyperlink for Albert Bandura’s 1963 article entitled “The Role of Imitation in Personality Development,” and download the PDF file. Please read this article in its entirety.
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6.1.3 Reading: Emory University: Information on Self-Efficacy: Community of Scholar’s version of Professor Frank Parajes’s “Overview of Social Cognitive Theory and of Self-Efficacy”
Link: Emory University: Information on Self-Efficacy: Community of Scholar’s version of Professor Frank Parajes’s "Overview of Social Cognitive Theory and of Self-Efficacy" (HTML)
Instructions: Please read the entirety of this webpage.
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6.2 Reading: Wikibook’s "Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience/Motivation and Emotion" and University of California, Berkeley: Dr. Robert Levenson’s Psychophysiology’s Lab’s (1999) “The Intrapersonal Function of Emotions”
Link: Wikibook’s "Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience/Motivation and Emotion" (HTML) and University of California, Berkeley: Dr. Robert Levenson’s Psychophysiology’s Lab’s (1999) “The Intrapersonal Function of Emotions” (PDF)
Instructions: For the first reading, please read this overview of some major findings in key research areas related to motivation and emotions. For the second reading, under the date 1999, please select the first PDF file entitled “The Intrapersonal Function of Emotions.” Please read the entirety of this article to learn about the basics regarding the function of emotions.
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6.3 Reading: University of California, Berkeley: Dr. Robert Levenson’s Psychophysiology’s Lab’s “Emotional Suppression: Physiology, Self-Report, and Expressive Behavior,” and “Hiding feelings: The acute effects of inhibiting negative and positive emotion”
Links: University of California, Berkeley: Dr. Robert Levenson’s Psychophysiology’s Lab’s “Emotional Suppression: Physiology, Self-Report, and Expressive Behavior” (PDF) and “Hiding feelings: The Acute Effects of Inhibition Negative and Positive Emotion”(PDF)
Instructions: For the first reading, please scroll down to the date 1993, and click on the PDF file entitled “Emotional Suppression: Physiology, Self-Report, and Expressive Behavior.” Please read this article in its entirety. For the second reading, please scroll down to the date 1997 and click on the PDF file entitled “Hiding Feelings: The Acute Effect of Inhibition, Negative and Positive Emotion.” Please read the entirety of this article to learn about suppression, which is a type of emotion regulation strategy.
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6.4 Reading: University of California, Berkeley: M.N. Shiota’s and Dr. Robert Levenson’s Psychophysiology’s Lab’s “Effects of Aging on Experimentally Instructed Detached Reappraisal, Positive Reappraisal, and Emotional Behavior Suppression,” and Wikipedia’s version of Dr. Laura L. Carstensen and Dr. Joseph A. Mikels’s “At the Intersection of Emotion and Cognition: Aging and the Positivity Effect”
Links: University of California, Berkeley: M.N. Shiota’s and Dr. Robert Levenson’s Psychophysiology’s Lab’s “Effects of Aging on Experimentally Instructed Detached Reappraisal, Positive Reappraisal, and Emotional Behavior Suppression” (PDF) and Wikipedia’s version of Dr. Laura L. Carstensen and Dr. Joseph A. Mikels’s "At the Intersection of Emotion and Cognition: Aging and the Positivity Effect" (HTML)
Instructions: For the first reading, please scroll up to the date 2009, and click on the PDF file entitled “Effects of Aging on Experimentally Instructed Detached Reappraisal, Positive Reappraisal, and Emotional Behavior Suppression.” Please read the entirety of this article to learn about different types of emotion regulation strategies and how they intersect with age. For the second reading, please click on the link above and scroll down to the bottom of the webpage under “External Link.” Then, click on the first hyperlink with the PDF icon to download the PDF file. Read this article in its entirety.
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6.5 Reading: University of California, Berkeley: Dr. Robert Levenson’s Psychophysiology’s Lab’s “Affect in Intimate Relationships: The Developmental Course of Marriage” and The Dana Foundation: Dr. Silvia Helena Cardoso’s “Hardwired for Happiness”
Links: University of California, Berkeley: Dr. Robert Levenson’s Psychophysiology’s Lab’s “Affect in Intimate Relationships: The Developmental Course of Marriage” (PDF) and The Dana Foundation: Dr. Silvia Helena Cardoso’s "Hardwired for Happiness" (HTML)
Instructions: These readings cover subunits 6.5.1-6.5.7. For the first reading, please scroll down to the date 1996, and click on the first PDF file entitled “Affect in Intimate Relationships: The Developmental Course of Marriage.” Please read the entirety of this article to learn about some relationships between emotion and interpersonal processes. Please also read “Hardwired for Happiness” in its entirety.
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