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Personality Psychology

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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 Personal Projects Analysis: Trivial Pursuits, Magnificent Obsessions, and the Search for Coherence
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    Chapter 3 Exploring the Relations Between Motives and Traits: The Case of Narcissism
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    Chapter 4 Cognitive Strategies as Personality: Effectiveness, Specificity, Flexibility, and Change
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    Chapter 5 An Alternative Paradigm for Studying the Accuracy of Person Perception: Simulated Personalities
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    Chapter 6 On the Continuities and Consequences of Personality: A Life-Course Perspective
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    Chapter 7 Life Paths of Aggressive and Withdrawn Children
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    Chapter 8 Emotional Adaptation to Life Transitions: Early Impact on Integrative Cognitive Processes
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    Chapter 9 Performance Evaluation and Intrinsic Motivation Processes: The Effects of Achievement Orientation and Rewards
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    Chapter 10 The Problem of Life’s Meaning
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    Chapter 11 Conditional Patterns, Transference, and the Coherence of Personality Across Time
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    Chapter 12 The Development of a Narrative Identity
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    Chapter 13 A Process Approach to Personality Psychology: Utilizing Time as a Facet of Data
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    Chapter 14 Metatraits: Interitem Variance as Personality Assessment
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    Chapter 15 Socially Desirable Responding: Some New Solutions to Old Problems
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    Chapter 16 Accuracy in Personality Judgment and the Dancing Bear
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    Chapter 17 Construct Validity in Personality Assessment
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    Chapter 18 Why I Advocate the Five-Factor Model: Joint Factor Analyses of the NEO-PI with Other Instruments
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    Chapter 19 The Optimal Level of Measurement for Personality Constructs
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    Chapter 20 Towards a Taxonomy of Personality Descriptors
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    Chapter 21 Identity Orientations and Self-Interpretation
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    Chapter 22 Using Traits to Construct Personality
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    Chapter 23 Personality Theory and Behavioral Genetics: Contributions and Issues
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    Chapter 24 A Biosocial Perspective on Mates and Traits: Reuniting Personality and Social Psychology
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    Chapter 25 The Evolutionary History of Genetic Variation: An Emerging Issue in the Behavioral Genetic Study of Personality
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    Chapter 26 Levels of Explanation in Personality Theory
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Chapter title
Towards a Taxonomy of Personality Descriptors
Chapter number 20
Book title
Personality Psychology
Published by
Springer US, January 1989
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4684-0634-4_20
Book ISBNs
978-1-4684-0636-8, 978-1-4684-0634-4
Authors

Oliver P. John

Editors

David M. Buss, Nancy Cantor

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Unknown 60 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 11 18%
Researcher 8 13%
Student > Master 8 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 10%
Other 4 7%
Unknown 17 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 22 36%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 8%
Social Sciences 4 7%
Computer Science 3 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 3%
Other 4 7%
Unknown 21 34%