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Why You Are Who You Are: Investigations into Human Personality

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<p>Award-winning Professor Mark R. Leary explores the many ways our behavior affects our life through the intriguing science of our personalities.</p>

Syllabus

  • 01: What Is Personality?
  • 02: Key Traits: Extraversion and Neuroticism
  • 03: Are You Agreeable? Conscientious? Open?
  • 04: Basic Motives Underlying Behavior
  • 05: Intrapersonal Motives
  • 06: Positive and Negative Emotionality
  • 07: Differences in Emotional Experience
  • 08: Values and Moral Character
  • 09: Traits That Shape How You Think
  • 10: Beliefs about the World and Other People
  • 11: Beliefs about Yourself
  • 12: Personality and Social Relationships
  • 13: Consistency and Stability of Personality
  • 14: Evolution and Human Nature
  • 15: Personality and the Brain
  • 16: Genetic Influences on Personality
  • 17: Learning to Be Who You Are
  • 18: How Culture Influences Personality
  • 19: Nonconscious Aspects of Personality
  • 20: Personality and Self-Control
  • 21: When Personalities Become Toxic
  • 22: Avoidance, Paranoia, and Other Disorders
  • 23: The Enigma of Being Yourself
  • 24: The Well-Adjusted Personality
  • By This Professor

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Mark Leary

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