• Cloninger, S. (2004). Theories of Personality: Understanding Persons (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NY: Prentice Hall.
• The text illustrates theories with psychobiographies of various people. To supplement the analyses offered in the text, you may wish to look at various resources on the web, including those listed on this page:
  Psychobiography links

Instructors who have adopted this text may obtain Powerpoint presentations by contacting the publisher, Prentice Hall.

Links for students in my personality course:

psychobiography term paper assignment (pdf format)

psychobiography term paper advice and hints

The syllabus is found on the course Blackboard website.

Other Personality Links (on this website):

• Journals in personality
• About dreams and symbols

Personality links on the web:

Here are some general links to personality-related web sites. Links that are more closely related to the various chapters can be found at the bottom of each page of chapter notes.

Society for Personality and Social Psychology
http://www.spsp.org/what.htm



What is a personality/social psychologist? (Society for Personality and Social Psychology)
http://www.spsp.org/what.htm



The Personality Project (many links)
http://personality-project.org/personality.html



The Personality Project (links to other pages)
http://pmc.psych.nwu.edu/perproj/other.html



Great Ideas in Personality
http://www.personalityresearch.org/



Personality Psychology (links)
http://www.socialpsychology.org/person.htm



Personality and Consciousness Bookstore (associated with Amazon.com)
http://www.wynja.com/personality/theorists.html

CLICK ON A CHAPTER TITLE BELOW TO LINK TO NOTES FOR THAT CHAPTER.

Chapter 1:  Introduction to Personality Theory

Part I: The Psychoanalytic Perspective

Chapter 2:  Freud: Classical Psychoanalysis

Chapter 3:  Jung: Analytical Psychology

Part II: The Psychoanalytic-Social Perspective

Chapter 4:  Adler: Individual Psychology

Chapter 5:  Erikson: Psychosocial Development

Chapter 6:  Horney and Relational Theory: Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Theory

Part III: The Trait Perspective

Chapter 7:  Allport: Personological Trait Theory

Chapter 8:  Cattell and the Big Five: Factor Analytic Trait Theories

Chapter 9:  Evolution, Eysenck, Gray, and Others: Biological Theories

Part IV: The Learning Perspective

Chapter 10:  Skinner and Staats: The Challenge of Behaviorism

Chapter 11:  Dollard & Miller: Psychoanalytic Learning Theory

Part V: The Cognitive Social Learning Perspective

Chapter 12:  Mischel & Bandura: Cognitive Social Learning Theory

Chapter 13:  Kelly: Personal Construct Theory

Part VI: The Humanistic Perspective

Chapter 14:  Rogers: Person-Centered Theory

Chapter 15:  Maslow: Need Hierarchy Theory

Chapter 16:  Conclusion

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