Theories of Personality

By: Lawrence Pervin and Daniel Cervone and John Oliver

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Synopsis: "Why should you take a course in personality? Why are some people so taken by the field that they decide to become personality psychologists? A basic attraction of the field is that it addresses the questions "Why are people the way they are? Why am I the way I am?" We are all fascinated by such questions, and personality psychology promises to answer them. Admittedly, this text and the scientific field it reviews may not definitively answer all of your questions. Yet much scientific progress has been made in understanding persons and the differences among them. This book will introduce you to some of the answers that contemporary scientific research can provide, while also introducing you to the best and most influential theoretical frameworks that have been developed for studying people." From Chapter 1