Optimal Human Being: An Integrated Multi
β Kennon M. Sheldon
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π English
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Optimal human being: an integrated multi-level perspective
β Scribed by Kennon Marshall Sheldon
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 250
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Ken Sheldon's comprehensive new book addresses two questions: how can individuals best integrate the different facets of themselves to achieve "optimal human being", and how can researchers best integrate the different levels of analysis within the human sciences to understand "optimal human being" in general? In the process, the book supplies two new frameworksβone for viewing the human sciences as a group, and the other for viewing personality theory within that group. Optimal Human Being features a multi-level model that moves from biologically based levels of analysis to higher, socially based levels, and demonstrates how these different levels interact to determine behavior. The author then proposes a new way of looking at personality by examining four "tiers": organismic foundations, personality traits, goals/intentions, and self-concepts, and demonstrates how these levels relate to the state of optimal human being. The book concludes with two higher levels of analysis relevant to personalityβsocial interaction and cultureβand proposes a new profile of optimal human being.Intended for researchers and students in social and personality, clinical, developmental, and industrial psychology and other social sciences, the book will also serve as a supplement in a variety of courses including personality, positive psychology, well being, personal development, and motivation.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
1 What Is Optimal Human Being?......Page 12
2 Hierarchies and Levels of Analysis: Locating Behavior in the Physical World and Seeking Integration Between the Human Sciences......Page 25
3 Focusing on the Personality Level: Comprehensive Models of Personality......Page 45
4 The Universal Human Organism: Species-Typical Human Nature......Page 61
5 Personality Traits and Individual Differences: The Meaning of Variability......Page 83
6 Goals and Intentions: The Method of Self-Organization......Page 107
7 The Self-Homunculus: Fictional but Functional......Page 128
8 Social and Group Interaction: Game and Role Theory Perspectives......Page 154
9 The Cultural Level of Analysis: Memes, Genes, and Other Themes......Page 175
10 Optimal Human Being and Optimal Human Science: Summary Prescriptions......Page 194
References......Page 214
B......Page 232
G......Page 233
K......Page 234
P......Page 235
S......Page 236
Z......Page 237
A......Page 238
C......Page 239
D......Page 240
G......Page 241
H......Page 243
I......Page 244
N......Page 245
P......Page 246
S......Page 247
T......Page 249
W......Page 250
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