Based on addresses of a symposium given at Rice University on November 5th and 6th, 1966. Includes bibliographies.
Contents:
Psychological views of personality and contributions to its study / Gardner Murphy -- Anthropological contributions to the theory of personality / Anthony F.C. Wallace -- Sociological views and contributions / Anselm Strauss -- Personality from a psychoanalytic viewpoint / Weston La Barre -- Philosophy of science and the study of personality / Douglass Price-Williams -- National character revisited: a proposal for renegotiating the concept / Daniel Bell -- The method of the study of persons / Bert Kaplan -- Personality and the biological nature of man / John O. Ellefson -- Toward a neuropsychological theory of person / Karl H. Pribram -- Genetics and personality / William R. Thompson -- Influences of childhood and adolescence / Mary Ellen Goodman -- The self and adult socialization / Howard S. Becker -- Personality change in middle and old age / William E. Henry -- The consequences of early bilingualism in cognitive development and personality formation / A. Richard Diebold, Jr. -- The study of personality in primitive societies / John J. Honigmann -- Cultural factors in mental illness / E.D. Wittkower [and] G. Dubreuil -- The family and personality in crisis / A.B. Hollingshead -- The personality of social deviants / William M. McCord -- Psychocultural adaptation / George D. Spindler -- Achievement and innovation in culture and personality / George A. De Vos -- Problems and progress in the study of personality / Margaret Mead -- Biographical sketches of authors.
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