Reading in the sciences is becoming an increasingly challenging affair. Readings in Personality Psychology offers welcome help. The book includes a diverse collection of source materials in personality psychology and provides support for students about how to read them. Readings In Personality Psychology is a book of readings for the undergraduate course in personality psychology. In addition to source readings, the book includes (new) original content that provides support, context, and instruction to students abouthowto read in the field. The book's first chapter describes a rationale for reading in the discipline and discusses some of the major issues and challenges in doing so. Each subsequent chapter describes a different sort of reading (e.g., original research report, theoretical review, book review, etc.) and the special challenges involved in reading and studying them. The primary Table of Contents organizes readings according to a systems approach: (a) introduction, (b) parts of personality, (c) personality organization, and (d) personality development. The alternate Table of Contents organizes the readings according to major theoretical perspectives of the field: (a) introductory issues; (b) biological bases, dispositions, and traits; (c) psychodynamics and social cognition; and (d) humanistic and developmental approaches. Readings include: Classics, such as a selection from Freud'sIntroductory Lectures Contemporary selections such as Arnett'sEmerging Adulthoodand McAdams'What Do We Know When We Know a Person? Student-relevant articles such as, Study Habits and Eysenck's Theory of Extraversion-Introversion, Provocative case studies such asPossible False Confession in a Military Court Martial Review articles such as Markus & Nurius'Possible Selves Original essays introducing each chapter such asReading an Empirical Research Report

A Systems Organization

INTRODUCTORY ISSUES
1. Reading Personality Psychology: Frequently Asked Questions What Does It Mean to Read Personality Psychology? Why Read Primary and Secondary Source Material? Concluding Comments
2. Teaching Personality Psychology: The Professors' Debate Reading a Professional Newsletter Teaching Personality(Brief comments by) M. Leary, J.D. Mayer, R. Hogan, R. Wheeler, R. Osborne, R. Baumeister, and D. Tice Concluding Comments
3. Thinking Big about Personality Psychology Encountering the Big Picture What Do We Know When We Know a Person?D.P. Mcadams Concluding Comments
4. The Proper Use of Psychological Tests: An Expert Speaks An Expert's Expert What Counselors Should Know about the Use and Interpretation Psychological TestsA. Anastasi Concluding Comments

PARTS OF PERSONALITY
5. Exploring Parts of Personality with a Quasi-Experimental Design Reading an Empirical Research Report Sensations Seeking and the Need for Achievement among Study-Abroad StudentsM. Schroth Concluding Comments
6. Exploring Parts of Personality with a Field Study Reading about Field Study Study Habits and Eyesenck's Theory of Extraversion-IntroversionJ. B. Campbell & C. Hawley Concluding Comments
7. Reading Programmatic Research: Studies about the Self Reading Programmatic Research Possible SelvesH. Markus And P. Nuris Concluding Comments
8. How Good Is the Measure of the Parts? Reading a Test Review Review of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for ChildrenJ.P. Braden Concluding Comments
9. Some Funny Stuff On Professional Humor The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality InventoryA. Rosen; A Brief Report on Clinical Aspects of ProcrastinationK. Alberding, D. Antonuccio, & B.H. Tearnan Concluding Comments

PERSONALITY ORGANIZATION
10. Reading Freud on Psychodynamics Reading Freud and The Early-20th Century Grand Theorists Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis( From Lectures II, III and IV) S. Freud Concluding Comments
11. Personality Dynamics in a Clinical Case Study Reading a Case Study Possibly False Confession in a Mil