Personality Psychology
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Personality Psychology is well-written, and more important, it is engaging. I would even go so far as to say that the student reading this will feel like he or she is involved in a conversation with the author. Even better, Jim McMartin manages this without being condescending and without piling on irrelevant anecdotes. . . . Another strength of the book is its format. I only recently examined a whole pile of undergraduate personality texts . . . and I do not believe I encountered even one that was not organized around major theorists/theories. Personality Psychology was thus a refreshing change. . . . And needless to say, I feel the past-present-future organization of the book is not only different but sensible and effective. --Leonard Bickman, University of Illinois at Chicago "Student-friendly and absolutely readable! Personality Psychology puts the theories into focus, into a compact and understandable form." --Liz Orrell, Student, California State University, Northridge,
Jim McMartin is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, California State University, Northridge. He began his career as a Research Associate at the Institute for Developmental Studies in New York City. He helped to collect and analyze seminal data showing the academic benefits of pre-school experiences. The data from this well-controlled field experiment, as well as replicated findings from similar research programs across the United States, led to federal funding for the Head Start Program. He earned degrees in psychology from Fordham University (B.S.), Brooklyn College (M.A.), and the University of Minnesota (Ph.D.). He has published in such journals as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Human Relations, Sociometry, among others, as well as invited articles for the International Encyclopedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Neurology. He lives in Camarillo, California, with his wife, Rory Ann, who created the illustrations throughout this book, as faithful servants to our fine feline, Samantha, a.k.a. She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed.