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Key Thinkers in Individual Differences: Ideas on Personality and Intelligence book cover

1st Edition

Key Thinkers in Individual Differences Ideas on Personality and Intelligence

By Alex Forsythe Copyright 2019
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge
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Key Thinkers in Individual Differences introduces the life, work and thought of 25 of the most influential figures who have shaped and developed the measurement of intelligence and personality. Expanding on from a résumé of academic events, this book makes sense of these psychologists by bringing together not only their ideas but the social experiences, loves and losses that moulded them. By... Read more

Dedication

Acknowledgment

Preface

  1. Francis Galton (1822-1911)

    2. ‘Hereditary Genius’

  2. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

    3. "I can most highly recommend the Gestapo to everyone"

  3. Alfred Binet (1857-1911)

    4. ‘The constructionist’

  4. Charles Edward Spearman (1863-1945)

    5. ‘The intelligence factor’

  5. Goddard, Henry Herbert (1866-1957)

    6. "As luck would have it"

  6. Alfred Alder (1870-1937)

    7. ‘The individualist’

  7. Jung, Carl Gustav (1875-1961)

    8. ‘We cannot change anything unless we accept it’

  8. Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922)

    9. ‘Faces staring back at us’

  9. Karen Horney (1885-1952)

    10. ‘Upending Freud’

  10. Henry Alexander Murray (1893-1988)

    11. ‘Revealing the personal narrative’

  11. David Wechsler (1896-1981)

    12. ‘Factorial analysis alone is not the answer’

  12. Katherine Cook-Briggs & Isabel Myers-Briggs

    13. ‘The indicator’ Myers-Briggs (1897-1980)

    Cook-Briggs (1875-1968)

  13. John Carlyle Raven June (1902-1970)

    14. ‘Elegant design’

  14. Hathaway, Starke Rosecrans (1903–1984)

    15. ‘The Minnesota Normals’

  15. Raymond Bernard Cattell (1905-1998)

    16. Psychology: "describing things which everyone knows in language which no one understands"

  16. George Alexander Kelly (1905-1967)

    17. A multi-dimensional man

  17. Hans Jurgen Eysenck (1916-1997)

    18. The truth as he sees it

  18. Arthur Jensen (1923-2012)

    19. A King among Men

  19. Walter Mischel (1930-2018)

    20. Oh, what a lovely war

  20. Lewis Robert Goldberg (1932-)

    21. The Big-5, OCEAN and the language of personality

  21. Howard Gardner (1943–)

    22. "One of a kind"

  22. John Philippe Rushton (1943-2012)

    23. The incendiary device

  23. Peter Francis Saville (1946-)

    24. ‘Global Gold Standard’

  24. Daniel Goleman (1946)

         Emotionally intelligent

References

Index

Biography

Alex Forsythe is Head of Certification for the Association for Business Psychology, Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool and Head of Psychology at the University of Wolverhampton. Among her various accomplishments, she is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, BPS Specialist in test use, and in 2018 was awarded both Principal Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy and the prestigious National Teaching Fellowship. With extensive organisational experience working at senior levels in the private, public and voluntary sectors, Alex’s specialisms include improving work performance through goal setting and by helping individuals develop healthy self-regulatory behaviours and relationships with feedback.

"This book lifts the curtain to explore the backgrounds and personal lives of some influential psychologists in the fields of personality, intelligence and their measurement. This brief book helps us understand how and why their backgrounds and private lives may have influenced their theories--and the controversies which frequently erupted.　 The book is engagingly written with a wry, light touch, such as describing Eysenck’s 'physics envy'. It provides fascinating background to some influential theories and will appeal to both specialists and non-specialists." - Colin Cooper, School of Psychology, Queen’s University, Belfast.

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