TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Professor Biography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i

Course Scope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

LECTURE GUIDES

Lecture 1  What Is Personality? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Lecture 2  Key Traits: Extraversion and Neuroticism. . . . . . . . . . . 12

Lecture 3  Are You Agreeable? Conscientious? Open?. . . . . . . . . 21

Lecture 4  Basic Motives Underlying Behavior. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Lecture 5  Intrapersonal Motives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Lecture 6  Positive and Negative Emotionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Lecture 7  Differences in Emotional Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Lecture 8  Values and Moral Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Lecture 9  Traits That Shape How You Think . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Lecture 10  Beliefs about the World and Other People . . . . . . . . 95

Lecture 11  Beliefs about Yourself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Lecture 12  Personality and Social Relationships. . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

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 Lecture 13  Consistency and Stability of Personality . . . . . . . . . 129

Lecture 14  Evolution and Human Nature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Lecture 15  Personality and the Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Lecture 16  Genetic Influences on Personality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Lecture 17  Learning to Be Who You Are. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Lecture 18  How Culture Influences Personality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Lecture 19  Nonconscious Aspects of Personality. . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Lecture 20  Personality and Self-Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Lecture 21  When Personalities Become Toxic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Lecture 22  Avoidance, Paranoia, and Other Disorders. . . . . . . . 227

Lecture 23  The Enigma of Being Yourself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Lecture 24  The Well-Adjusted Personality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Image Credits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

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