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Personality: Determinants, Dynamics and Potentials, first published
in 2000, is a comprehensive survey of research and theory in
personality psychology. The book provides balanced coverage of
biological, cognitive, affective, social, and interpersonal
determinants of personality functioning and individual differences.
The authors organize these factors within an overarching
theoretical framework that highlights the dynamic transactions
between individuals and the sociocultural environment, and the
human capacities for self-reflection and self-regulation. The
book's broad, integrative approach to the study of personality
reveals how advances throughout the psychological sciences
illuminate the classic questions of personality psychology. The
volume is designed as a textbook for advanced-level courses and as
a reference for professionals in psychology and related
disciplines. The book meets personality psychology's need for an
integrative analysis of the field that reviews recent advances,
places them in their historical context, and identifies
particularly promising avenues for the discipline's future
development.
Few people today would challenge the legitimacy of democracy as the
form of government most congenial to modern-day citizenship, as it
requires its members to treat each other as equals and to cooperate
in the shared pursuit of conditions that maximize both the
individual's potential and the achievement of a public welfare.
However, a number of facts challenge these deeply-rooted ideals:
declining political participation, along with skepticism and
dissatisfaction with the function of democracy has spread;
citizens' increasing capacity to control their own circumstances
within their private, economic, and social spheres is at odds with
their inability to exert control over their elected
representatives; and the shift of opposing radical coalitions
towards more pragmatic and ideologically elusive platforms aimed to
attract a larger constituency of the electorate has greatly diluted
the identity of political parties. In Personalizing Politics and
Realizing Democracy, authors Gian Vittorio Caprara and Michele
Vecchione present the ever-growing reciprocal relationship between
personality and politics, and assert that politics are not only
increasingly dependent on the likes and dislikes of its
citizenship, but ultimately on the personalities of political
candidates attracting these voters' preferences. In this book,
Caprara and Vecchione draw from recent research in personality
psychology that offer a decisive role in understanding the major
changes that have occurred within politics in the last several
decades.
Personality: Determinants, Dynamics, and Potentials is a comprehensive survey of contemporary research and theory in personality psychology. The book provides balanced coverage of biological, cognitive, affective, social, and interpersonal determinants of personality functioning and individual differences. The authors organize these factors within an overarching theoretical framework that highlights the dynamic transactions between individuals and the sociocultural environment, and the human capacities for self-reflection and self-regulation. The book's broad, integrative approach to the study of personality reveals how advances throughout the psychological sciences illuminate the classic questions of personality psychology.
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