 
Personality: Theory and Research, 10th Edition
February 2007, ©2008
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Chapter 2. The Scientific Study of People.
Chapter 3. A Psychodynamic Theory: Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality.
Chapter 4. Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory: Applications, Related Theoretical Conceptions, and Contemporary Research.
Chapter 5. A Phenomenological Theory: Carl Roger's Person-Centered Theory of Personality.
Chapter 6. Rogers's Phenomenological Theory: Applications, Related Theoretical Conceptions, and Contemporary Research.
Chapter 7. Trait Theories of Personality: Allport, Eysenck, and Cattell
Chapter 8. Trait Theory: The Five-Factor Model;
Applications and Evaluation of Trait Approaches to Personality.
Chapter 9. Biological Foundations of Personality.
Chapter 10. Behaviorism and the Learning Approaches To Personality.
Chapter 11. A Cognitive Theory: George A. Kelly's Personal Construct Theory of Personality.
Chapter 12. Social-Cognitive Theory: Bandura and Mischel.
Chapter 13. Social-Cognitive Theory: Applications, Related Theoretical Conceptions, and Contemporary Research.
Chapter 14. Personality in Context: Iinterpersonal Relations, Culture, and Development Across the Course of Life.
Chapter 15. Assessing Personality Theory and Research.
- The overall format of the text remains the same, retaining the renowned strength of the book.
- Updated and expanded coverage of recent research and theories!
- The presentation of material within individual chapters has been improved with greater uniformity of coverage across the chapters.
- Focuses on the major theoretical perspectives on personality, rather than covering every possible theory.
- Integrates theory and research to emphasize how they inform one another.
- Illustrates theory with rich case material, including a running case throughout the text that shows how the various theories relate to the same person.
- Treats each theoretical approach objectively and even-handedly, encouraging students to weigh the evidence and come to their own conclusions.
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