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The Person provides psychologists with an organizational scheme for personality psychology. This sets the study of the person into evolutionary and cultural context and divided personality up into three broad areas: dispositional traits, characteristic adaptations, and integrative life stories. The fifth edition has been updated to reflect advances that have occurred in the field of psychology in the past few years. It presents new findings that have been obtained with respect to the correlates of personality traits, the dynamics of motives and goals in human lives, and the meanings and manifestations of life stories. Discussions are included on the new ideas on evolution and morality as well as the role of culture in personality. Psychologists will also find a much stronger and detailed discussion of psychophysiology of extraversion, neuroticism, and the train of sensation-seeking.
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THE PERSON AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY Fifth Edition DAN P. McADAMS Northwestern University -v{ \J I ( (J (! . ' ! (,lI � WILEY A JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. Publisher Jay O'Callaghan Executive Editor Christopher Johnson Assistant Editor Eileen McKeever Senior Production Editor Valerie A. Vargas Marketing Manager Danielle Torio Creative Director Harry Nolan Cover Designer Kevin Murphy Production Management Services Pine Tree Composition, Inc. Senior Photo Editor Hilary Newman Media Editor Lynn Pearlman Cover art ©Paul Giovanopoulos/theispot.com This book was set in Minion by Laserwords Private Limited, Chennai, India and printed and bound by Hamilton Printing Company. The cover was printed by Phoenix Color Corp. Copyright© 2009, 2006, 2001, 1994, 1990 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, website www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774, (201)748-6011, fax (201)748-6008, website http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions. To order books or for customer service please, call l-800-CALL WILEY (225-5945). ISBN-13: 978-0-470-12913-5 Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 TO THE MEMORY OF MY TWO TEACHERS George W. Goethals (1920-1995) David C. McClelland (1917-1998) About the Author Dan P. McAdams received his PhD in personality and developmental psychology from Harvard University in 1 979. He is a Professor of Psychology and of Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University, where he also directs the Foley Center for the Study of Lives. Dr. McAdams has won numerous teaching awards at Northwestern, including the Charles Deering McCormick endowed chair in Teaching Excellence. A leading personality researcher, he has written over 150 scientific articles and chapters, as well as written or edited 13 books, on such topics as the nature of intimacy and identity in human lives, the development of generativity in adulthood, themes of redemption and contamination in American life stories, and other aspects of personality structure and process, human motivation, and psychological development across the human life course. Dr. McAdams's 2006 book, The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By, won the American Psychological Association's William James Award for best g