The Coherence of Personality: Social-Cognitive Bases of Consistency, Variability, and Organisation - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1572304367 ISBN 13: 9781572304369

Publisher: Guilford Press, 1999

Synopsis

This volume reveals how social-cognitive structures and processes serve as a basis of personality coherence--the unique patterns of experience and action that make each of us who we are. In doing so, the volume demonstrates how a personality theory can be built on psychology's broader foundation of knowledge about cognitive and affective systems and the interactions between persons and the sociocultural environment. Presenting novel theoretical developments from leaders in personality, social, cultural, and developmental psychology, chapters show how personality coherence arises from the ways people assign meaning to social information, gain causal agency over their lives through self-knowledge and self-reflective processes, and organize multiple life events within a framework of goals and life tasks. The book stands as the most definitive presentation to date of the social-cognitive theories of personality.

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About the Author

Daniel Cervone, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He earned his doctorate in psychology from Stanford University in 1985. He is a former Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA.

Yuichi Shoda, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington, Seattle, was born in Japan and studied geophysics at Hokkaido University. He then studied psychology at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Stanford University, and Columbia University, and received his doctorate at Columbia in 1990.

Edition details

• Publisher: Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1572304367
• ISBN 13: 9781572304369
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 413
• Editor: Cervone Daniel, Shoda Yuichi