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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: American Psychological Association
Other Authors: Chang, Edward C. (Edward Chin-Ho), Sanna, Lawrence J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, [2003]
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.