Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Personality Psychology 1th edition
ISBN:0078050006
ISBN13:9780078050008
Publisher:McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
Authors:Laurel Newman, Randy J. Larsen, Randy Larsen
Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Personality Psychology Description
Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Personality Psychology 1 Edition TAKING SIDES: Clashing Views in Personality PsychologyTable of ContentsClashing Views in Personality PsychologyUnit 1 Personality TraitsIssue 1. Is the Five-Factor Model an Adequate Theory of Personality?YES: Robert R. McCrae and Oliver P. John, from An Introduction to the Five-Factor Model and Its Applications, Journal of Personality (vol. 60, 1992)NO: Jack Block, from A Contrarian View of the Five-Factor Approach to Personality Description, Psychological Bulletin (vol. 117, 1995)Robert McCrae and Oliver John present the historical development and contemporary status of the five-factor model as an adequate and sufficient theory of personality. Jack Block argues that there are methodological, theoretical, and conceptual reasons to believe that the five-factor model is not a theory at all, is not as consensual as we are led to believe, and is limited to a small part of the domain that is personality psychology.Issue 2. Is Personality Stable Across the Life Span?YES: Robert R. McCrae and Paul T. Costa, Jr., from The Stability of Personality: Observation and Evaluations, Current Directions in Psychological Science (1994, vol. 3, pp. 173175)NO: Sanjay Srivastava, Oliver P. John, Samuel D. Gosling, and Jeff Potter, from Development of Personality in Early and Middle Adulthood: Set Like Plaster or Persistent Change? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2003, vol. 84, pp. 10411053)Robert McCrae and Paul Costa, Jr. summarize that peoples personalities are basically fixed by age 30. Sanjay Srivastava and colleagues suggest that many people experience predictable changes in personality at particular times in life.Issue 3. Is Neuroticism a Purely Negative Trait?YES: Jerry Suls and René Martin, from The Daily Life of the Garden Variety Neurotic: Problem Exposure, Hyperreactivity, Mood Spillover and Maladaptive Coping, Journal of Personality (vol. 73, 2005)NO: David Watson and Alex Casillas, from Neuroticism: Adaptive and Maladaptive Features, Virtue, Vice, and Personality: The Complexity of Behavior. E. C. Chang & L. J. Sanna, eds. (American Psychological Association, 2003)Jerry Suls and René Martin explain how the increased emotional distress that is associated with neuroticism can be traced back to a few maladaptive psychological habits common to people who are highly neurotic. David Watson and Alex Casillas argue that the emotional oversensitivity that leads highly neurotic people to experience emotional distress can also have important self-protective benefits.Issue 4. Is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) a Valid Tool for Career Selection?YES: Mary H. McCaulley and Charles R. Martin, from Career Assessment and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Journal of Career Assessment (vol. 3, no. 2, 1995)NO: Randall J. Larsen and David M. Buss, from Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge about Human Nature, 4th ed. (McGraw-Hill, 2010)Mary McCaulley and Charles Martin describe how the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBRI) works and claim that it is a useful tool for helping people choose their careers. Randy Larsen and David Buss review the psychological literature on the MBTIs reliability and validity, and conclude that it is not a valid tool for career selection.Unit 2 Biological Bases of PersonalityIssue 5. Do Animals Have Personalities?YES: Samuel D. Gosling and Oliver P. John, from Personality Dimensions in Nonhuman Animals: A Cross-Species Review, Current Directions in Psychological Science (1999, vol. 8, pp. 6975)NO: Clive D. L. Wynne, from What Are Animals? Why Anthropomorphism Is Still Not a Scientific Approach to Behavior, Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews (2007, vol. 2, pp. 125135)Samuel Gosling and Oliver John present the case tha