"A new, diverse collection of source materials for personality psychology that provide context and instruction to students. Readings in Personality Psychology is designed to strengthen students' understanding of personality psychology. Students are exposed to a variety of relevant readings and are provided with pedagogical features that will help them better understand and more fully appreciate the readings included. This text has sixteen chapters of key readings from a diversity of sources. Included in the readings are contemporary theoretical articles, historical theoretical articles, reviews of important books and tests, and humorous writings."--Publisher's website.

A current collection of articles that define the field of motivational science.

Recognizing the importance of empirical research to support theoretical claims in contemporary psychology, the anthology Readings on Personality Theories: The Research Behind the Claims introduces readers to original research articles corresponding to each of the major twentieth-century personality theorists. The selected readings familiarize students with prominent, representative research investigations and directly address claims made by these theorists. The eight sections of the anthology address topics such as birth order, dream theory, subjective perception, and the psychosocial stages of adolescent and young adult development. Students also learn about the hierarchy of needs, positive psychology, client-centered therapy, introversion and extroversion, and self-efficacy. These topics are explored through research into the work of seminal thinkers in the field including Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Rollo May, and Albert Bandura. Readings on Personality Theories solves a common problem in undergraduate psychology classes by compiling the studies and research to complement content in the primary text. Featuring thoughtful, perceptive articles that support and enhance standard textbooks, it is well-suited to courses in introductory, clinical, and social psychology. Holly Hazlett-Stevens earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Pennsylvania State University, while also working at the Penn State Stress and Anxiety Disorders Institute. She went on to complete a post-doctoral fellowship at the Anxiety Disorders Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles before joining the faculty at the University of Nevada, Reno where she is an associate professor and regularly teaches on the topics of personality and mindfulness. A licensed psychologist and certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction instructor, Dr. Hazlett-Stevens is the author of the books Women Who Worry Too Much and Psychological Approaches to Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

The Fourth Edition of Pieces of the Personality Puzzle features insightful readings in personality psychology from a wide range of voices, with nearly a third of the readings new to this edition.

"Randy Larsen and David Buss demonstrate how scientists approach the study of personality."--Back cover.

These timely, cutting-edge articles allow instructors to bring their students real-world perspective from a reliable source about today's most current and pressing issues in personality psychology.