McAdams:

The Person: An Introduction to the Science of Personality Psychology, 5th Edition

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Table Of Contents

Part 1:: The Background: Persons, Human Nature, and Culture 1

Chapter 1: Studying the Person

Chapter 2: Evolution and Human Nature

Chapter 3: Social Learning and Culture

Part 2:: Sketching the Outline: Dispositional Traits and the Prediction of Behavior

Chapter 4: Personality Traits: Fundamental Concepts and Issues

Chapter 5: Five Basic Traits - In the Brain and in Behavior

Chapter 6: Continuity and Change in Traits: The Role of Genes, Environments, and Time

Part 3:: Filling in the Details: Characteristic Adaptations to Life Tasks

Chapter 7: Motives and Goals: What Do We Want in Life?

Chapter 8: Self and Other: Social-Cognitive Aspects of Personality

Chapter 9: Developmental Stages and Tasks

Part 4:: Making a Life: The Stories We Live By

Chapter 10: Life Scripts, Life Stories

Chapter 11: The Interpretation of Stories: From Freud to Today

Chapter 12: Writing Stories of Lives: Biography and Life Course

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