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- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Editors’ general introduction
- Editors’ introduction to Parts I to VIII
- Part I Foundation Issues
- 1 Conceptual issues in personality theory
- 2 Personality psychology of situations
- 3 Personality:
- 4 Personality and emotion
- 5 The characterization of persons:
- Part II Personality Description and Measurement
- Part III Development, Health and Personality Change
- Part IV Biological Perspectives
- Part V Cognitive Perspectives
- Part VI Social and Cultural Processes
- Part VII Psychopathology
- Part VIII Applied Personality Psychology
- Index
5 - The characterization of persons:
some fundamental conceptual issues
from Part I - Foundation Issues
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Editors’ general introduction
- Editors’ introduction to Parts I to VIII
- Part I Foundation Issues
- 1 Conceptual issues in personality theory
- 2 Personality psychology of situations
- 3 Personality:
- 4 Personality and emotion
- 5 The characterization of persons:
- Part II Personality Description and Measurement
- Part III Development, Health and Personality Change
- Part IV Biological Perspectives
- Part V Cognitive Perspectives
- Part VI Social and Cultural Processes
- Part VII Psychopathology
- Part VIII Applied Personality Psychology
- Index
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology , pp. 72 - 86Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009