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Thinking Clearly about Psychology : Personality and Psychopathology.
Title:
Thinking Clearly about Psychology : Personality and Psychopathology.
Author:
Cicchetti, Dante.
ISBN:
9780816683567
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (475 pages)
Series:
Thinking Clearly about Psychology
Contents:
Contents -- Personality and Abilities -- The Originating Self -- Personality Traits: Issues of Definition, Evidence, and Assessment -- Personality Structure and the Trait-Situation Controversy: On the Uses of Low Correlations -- Not Personality Scales, Personality Items -- Deception, Rational Man, and Other Rocks on the Road to a Personality Psychology of Real People -- Agency and Communion as Conceptual Coordinates for the Understanding and Measurement of Interpersonal Behavior -- Some Unfinished Business -- Are Intelligence Tests the Only Way to Assess Intelligence? -- Some Unconventional Analyses of Resemblance Coefficients for Male and Female Monozygotic and Dizygotic Twins -- A Twice-Told Tale: Twins Reared Apart -- Methodology -- Construct Validity: History and Application to Developmental Psychopathology -- Bootstrapsing Taxometrics: On the Development of a Method for Detection of a Single Major Gene -- Mixed and Mixed-Up Models for the Transmission of Schizophrenia -- Validity of Taxometric Inferences Based on Cluster Analysis Stopping Rules -- Psychopathology -- The Psychodiagnosis of Everyday Conduct: Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Its Components -- Toward the Development of a Scientific Nosology of Child Maltreatment -- Depression and Extreme Violence in Adolescence -- Environment, Schizophrenia, and Academic Psychology -- A Developmental Model for the Etiology of Schizophrenia -- Control Groups in Schizophrenia Research: A Neglected Source of Variability -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
This is the second volume of a two-volume compendium which presents the contributions of some of the most influential theorists and researchers in clinical psychology and relevant disciplines. Topics in this volume address the psychology of personality and abilities, psychological methodology and psychopathology. The essays are also designed to provide a forum for discussion of the work of Paul Meehl, one of the most influential clinical psychologists of the 20th century.
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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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