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Can personality change?

Title
  1. Can personality change? / Todd F. Heatherton & Joel L. Weinberger, editors.
Published by
  1. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, ©1994.

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Additional authors
  1. Heatherton, Todd F.
  2. Weinberger, Joel L.
Description
  1. xiv, 368 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
Summary
  1. "Can personality change?", is a question that has absorbed psychologists since William James first proposed that personality was "set in plaster". Here, leading figures in personality research examine provocative theories of change and stability and present the results of important new data.
Subject
  1. Personality change
  2. Change (Psychology)
  3. Personality
  4. Life change events
  5. Adaptability (Psychology)
  6. Personality
  7. Life Change Events
  8. Adaptation, Psychological
  9. Life change events
  10. Personality change
  11. Persönlichkeitsentwicklung
  12. Persönlichkeitspsychologie
  13. Persönlichkeitsveränderung
  14. Aufsatzsammlung
  15. Persoonlijkheidsontwikkeling
Contents
  1. Conceptual issues in assessing whether personality can change / Todd F. Heatherton and Patricia A. Nichols -- Set like plaster? Evidence for the stability of adult personality / Paul T. Costa, Jr., and Robert R. McCrae --Personality evoked : the evolutionary psychology of stability and change / David M. Buss -- 5 + -.5 : continuity and change in personal dispositions / Nathan Brody -- Personality change : metatheories and alternatives / Roger D. Davis and Theodore Millon -- Assessing constancy and change / John R. Nesselroade and Steven M. Boker -- Using growth curve analyses to assess personality change and stability in adulthood / A. George Alder and Steven J. Scher -- If behaviors change, can personality be far behind? / Carlo C. DiClemente -- Personality change in adulthood / Ravenna Helson and Abigail Stewart -- Does thought content change as individuals age? A longitudinal study of midlife adults / Carol E. Franz -- Quantum change : toward a psychology of transformation / William R. Miller and Janet C'deBaca.
  2. (cont) The crystallization of discontent in the process of major life change / Roy Baumeilster -- Can personality change? levels of stability and growth in personality across the life span / Dan P. McAdams -- Personality stability, personality change, and the question of process / Lawrence A. Pervin -- Can personality change? / Joel L. Weinberger.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.