Virtue, vice, and personality : the complexity of behavior /
This book offers researchers and students an important resource that explores the rich diversity of personality as both a virtue and a vice. The editors argue that a more balanced persective of personality may help prevent overly biased or unbalance clinical or educational formations and profiles an...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
American Psychological Association,
[2003]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Positive personalities : when virtue can become vice: High self-esteem : a differentiated perspective / Michael H. Kernis
- Optimism as virtue and vice / Christopher Peterson and Robert S. Vaidya
- Intelligence : can one have too much of a good thing? / Robert J. Sternberg
- The hazards of goal pursuit / Laura A. King and Chad M. Burton
- The virtues and vices of personal control / Michael J. Strube, J. Scott Hanson, and Laurel Newman
- Negative personalities : when vice can become virtue: Pessimism : accentuating the positive possibilities / Julie K. Norem
- Rumination, imagination, and personality : specters of the past and future in the present / Lawrence J. Sanna, Shevaun L. Stocker, and Jennifer A. Clarke
- On the perfectibility of the individual : going beyond the dialectic of good versus evil / Edward C. Chang
- Neuroticism : adaptive and maladaptive features / David Watson and Alex Casillas
- Further thoughts: Going beyond (while remaining connected to) personality as virtue and vice / Howard Tennen and Glenn Affleck
- Beyond virtue and vice in personality : some final thoughts / Lawrence J. Sanna and Edward C. Chang.