The Addictive Personality
Does addiction have a genetic factor? Can any type of addiction be treated medically? What steps can family members take to help a loved one struggling with addiction? This program provides answers to several addiction-related questions, focusing on...
The Enduring Self: Personality Inventories
In recent years personality inventories have become an increasingly common assessment tool in searching for a CiO or looking for a date. The key idea of an inventory is to determine the basic underlying dimensions of someone's personality. The use o...
The Enduring Self: Humanistic Perspective, The
Humanistic psychologists came to the forefront in the mid-twentieth century bridging the gap between the Freudian era and contemporary personality research. Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow were the forerunners of today's positive psychologists, empha...
Kids Out of Control
Teenagers are running away from home, dropping out of school, having babies, taking drugs, committing suicide, and going to jail for violent crimes. This program discusses normal adolescence and today’s too-frequent scenarios: a juvenile delinquen...
The Enduring Self: Genetic Links to Personality
There is growing evidence that many personality traits have a genetic basis. Human neuromodulatory systems have set points that regulate such dimensions as how active a person is and whether or not they tend to avoid new experiences. These set point...
The Enduring Self: Exploring the Self
The notion of an enduring self that integrates a person's interactions and experiences continues to capture the attention of psychologists. The self and how it is shaped is at the core of psychological science. Recent research by Hazel Markus and he...
The Enduring Self: Self Esteem
There are two facets to self esteem, one is your sense of self worth, and two is the feedback you receive from other people. The way performance feedback is processed depends on whether someone has high or low self esteem and how stable this assessm...
The Enduring Self: Social-Cognitive Perspective, The
The social-cognitive perspective on personality takes into consideration the interplay between behavior, cognition and the environment. Albert Bandura shares his own background to illustrate why he sees human beings as contributors to their life cir...
The Enduring Self: Personality Traits-The Big Five
Today's personality researchers are mainly interested in investigating the basic dimensions of personality and its connection to behavior. They start with a few characteristics that are stable over time and can be captured by a few dimensions. The m...