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001			ocn889168889
003			OCoLC
005			20251028093408.0
008			141027s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2014039361
035			_a(Sirsi) i9781462519958
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020			_a9781462519958 _q(hardback ; _qacid-free paper)
020			_a1462519954 _q(hardback ; _qacid-free paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)889168889
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050	0	0	_aBF 698 _b.M347 2015
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100	1		_aMcAdams, Dan P.
245	1	4	_aThe art and science of personality development / _cDan P. McAdams.
264		1	_aNew York : _bThe Guilford Press, _c2015
300			_axiv, 368 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"Integrating state-of-the-art personality and developmental research, this book presents a new and broadly integrative theory of how people come to be who they are over the life course. Preeminent researcher Dan P. McAdams traces the development of three distinct layers of personality--the social actor who expresses emotional and behavioral traits, the motivated agent who pursues goals and values, and the autobiographical author who constructs a personal story for life. Highly readable and accessible to scholars and students at all levels, the book uses rich portraits of the lives of famous people to illustrate theoretical concepts and empirical findings"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"This book is for anybody who has ever asked psychological questions like these: Who am I? How did I become the person I am today? My goal in this book is to tell a compelling story about personality development as it plays out in individual human lives across the human life course. It is a story that recognizes the artistry of individual lives while examining what contemporary science has to tell us about how human lives are psychologically patterned and how these patterns develop over time. I draw upon many of the most illuminating studies and intriguing ideas in psychological science today to describe and explain the development of human personality over the life course. Reflecting the three central metaphors in my theory of personality development, the book is divided into three parts - Becoming the Social Actor, Becoming the Motivated Agent, and Becoming the Autobiographical Author. In the three sections, I move back and forth across the life span to sketch out a full psychological portrait of human personality and trace its development from birth through old age"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 321-352) and index.
505	0		_aI. Becoming an Actor -- 1. In the Beginning. -- 2. The Actor Enters the Stage: How We Perform Emotion -- 3. The Problem of Self-Regulation -- 4. The Actor Grows Up: How Traits Develop into Adulthood -- II. Becoming an Agent -- 5. The Age 5-7 Shift -- 6. The Motivational Agenda: What Agents Want -- 7. How Values Shape Agency: Morality, Religion, and Politics -- III. Becoming an Author -- 8. The Stories We Live By -- 9. Generative Lives, Redemptive Life Stories -- 10. The Sense of an Ending.
650		0	_aPersonality.
650		0	_aSocial psychology.
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