Title:
Why you are who you are : investigations into human personality.
Author:
Leary, Mark, author.
Teaching Company.
Publication Information:
Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2018]
©2014
Call Number:
BF698 .L43 2018
Abstract:
Discover how your personality shapes your life with an award-winning professor of psychology and neuroscience.
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ISBN:
9781629975078
Series:
Great courses. Science, psychology
Great courses (DVD)
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Title from disc surface.
Course No. 1648.
24 lectures (30 min. each).
Contents:
What is personality? -- Key traits : extraversion and neuroticism -- Are you agreeable? Conscientious? Open? -- Basic motives underlying behavior -- Intrapersonal motives -- Positive and negative emotionality.
Differences in emotional experience -- Values and moral character -- Traits that shape how you think -- Beliefs about the world and other people -- Beliefs about yourself -- Personality and social relationships.
Consistency and stability of personality -- Evolution and human nature -- Personality and the brain -- Genetic influences on personality -- Learning to be who you are -- How culture influences personality.
Nonconscious aspects of personality -- Personality and self-control -- When personalities become toxic -- Avoidance, paranoia, and other disorders -- The enigma of being yourself -- The well-adjusted personality.
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