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Explorations in Personality.
Title:
Explorations in Personality.
Author:
Murray, Henry A., the late.
ISBN:
9780198041528
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (810 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- CONTRIBUTORS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PROPOSALS FOR A THEORY OF PERSONALITY -- 3. VARIABLES OF PERSONALITY -- 4. JUDGEMENTS OF PERSONALITY -- 5. THE GENETICAL INVESTIGATION OF PERSONALITY: CHILDHOOD EVENTS -- 6. PROCEDURES -- Conference -- Autobiography -- Family Relations and Childhood Memories -- Sexual Development -- Present Dilemmas -- Conversations -- Predictions and Sentiments Test -- Questionnaires -- Abilities Test -- Aesthetic Appreciation Test -- Hypnotic Test -- Level of Aspiration Test -- The Experimental Study of Repression -- a. Memory for Failures Test -- Violation of Prohibitions -- a. Ethical Standards Test -- Observations and Post-experimental Interviews -- Sensorimotor Learning Test -- Emotional Conditioning Test -- Galvanic Skin Response -- Tremor Responses -- Thematic Apperception Test -- Imaginal Productivity Tests -- Musical Reverie Test -- Dramatic Productions Test -- Rorschach Test -- Miscellaneous Procedures -- Reactions to Frustration -- Social Interaction -- 7. CASE HISTORY: CASE OF EARNST -- 8. CONCLUSIONS -- GLOSSARY -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Explorations in Personality, published by OUP in 1938, established an elaborate agenda for understanding our subjective human nature that is as relevant to students of personality psychology today as it was to its audience then. An antidote to the now fashionable strategy of representing a person as a dot on a scatter plot or burying the individual in an amalgam of statistics, it advocates 'whole person' research and bubbles with suggestions about how to perform such studies. IN addition, it actually executes with empirical and experimental rigor and ingenuity the kind of detailed, engrossing case study approach it recommends, recounting the results of a three-year long study of fifty college-age individuals. This book is, in short, a classic. This reissue, enhanced by Dan McAdams' foreword, which will provide a contemporary evaluation of Murray's achievement, will thus be of great interest to students and researchers in personality psychology in general, and personologists in particular.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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