Introduction to Personality
by Walter Mischel
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Almost half of the material in the Seventh Edition of Introduction to Personality is new for two reasons. First, both its content and organization incorporate the explosion of research and discoveries that the field has experienced since the publication of the last edition. Second, the new edition offers what no other personality text on the market has yet even attempted: an integrated view of the field.Organized around six levels of analysis of personality (trait-dispositional, show more psychodynamic-motivational, phenomenological, behavioral-conditioning, social cognitive, and biological), the text illustrates the concepts, methods, and research that capture the essentials of each level. A new part, Integration of Levels: The Person as a Whole, culminates the text and presents an integrated perspective of all six levels. In addition to numerous concrete life examples and a larger trim size, new pedagogy makes the Seventh Edition the most accessible yet. show lessTags
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Walter Mischel was born in Vienna, Austria on February 22, 1930. After his family fled the Nazis in 1938, they eventually settled in Brooklyn, New York in 1940. He received a bachelor's degree in psychology at New York University and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University. He joined the Harvard University faculty in 1962, the Stanford University show more faculty in 1977, and the Columbia University faculty in 1983. He was best known for the marshmallow test, which challenged children to wait before eating a treat. This study of delayed gratification in young children clarified the importance of self-control in human development. His book, The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control, was published in 2014. He died from pancreatic cancer on September 12, 2018 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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