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The Biological Basis of Personality (Hardcover)
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The Biological Basis of Personality (Hardcover)
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This classic is one of the most cited and novel approaches to
psychology ever written. Hans Eysenck presents a descriptive and
causal model of human personality in accord with the major concepts
of experimental psychology and the physiological and neurological
mechanisms that form the biological basis of behavior patterns. His
proposal for an alliance between personality and physiology
represented a major innovation in the field of psychology,
distinguished his research from his contemporaries, and set the
stage for a wealth of research to come. Before this foundational
work, Eysenck had initially constructed a model of personality in
such works as Dimensions of Personality and The Experimental Study
of Personality, but these were primarily descriptive in nature. A
second phase of research included his Dynamics of Anxiety and
Hysteria and Experiments with Drugs, where he provided causal
analysis by reference to concepts then current in experimental
psychology. The Biological Basis of Personality represents
Eysenck's third phase, when he dug deeper to find biological causes
underlying the psychological concepts of emotion, excitation, and
inhibition--which had formed the building blocks of his earlier
efforts. In this work, the causal links he postulates between
personality variables and neurological and physiological
discoveries establish a realistic model that takes theory out of
the field of mere speculation. As Sybil Eysenck makes clear in her
new preface, this book paved the way for a "marriage" of the
experimental and individual difference approach in personality
psychology. As Sybil Eysenck makes clear in her new preface, this
book paved the way for a "marriage" of the experimental and
individual difference approach in personality psychology.
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