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Personality has always been a predictor of performance. This book of original chapters is designed to fulfill a need for a contemporary treatment of human personality in work organizations. Bringing together top scholars in the field, this book provides a comprehensive study of the role of personality in organizational life. Utilizing a personality perspective, scholars review the role of personality in groups, job satisfaction, leadership, stress, motivation, organizational climate and culture, and vocational interests. In addition, the book looks at more classical topics in personality at work, including the measurement of personality, personality-performance linkages, faking, and person-organization fit.

Complete in both conceptual material and reviews of the literature across the variety of domains in which personality plays a role at work, this handbook borrows the idea that personality plays out in many ways in organizations and not just a correlate of task performance. The editors believe that this book supports this belief--that personality in its many conceptualizations is a useful lens through which to shed understanding on the broadest array of contemporary topics in industrial/organizational psychology and organizational behavior. Graduate students and researchers interested in the contributions of personality to almost any topic in which they may have interest will find it valuable. ... Read more

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This easy-to-understand presentation and explanation of basic principles of psychology uses current popular introductory psychology textbooks as a guideline for updates to this edition, including: new combined chapter on Methodologies and Statistics; new information on the effects of the nervous system; expanded chapter on consciousness; updated theories of emotions; revised chapter on Cognitive Processes; and new material on stress and health psychology. ... Read more

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Careless hodgepodge of undergraduate random notes
This poor book is a careless mess of random notes about psychology.There is no systematic theory behind the presentation.Look elsewhere for an intelligent summary of the field. ... Read more

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Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Text reflects the ideas of leading personality experts to consider alternative ways for understanding some of the personality variables and their presumed association with adjustment or maladjustment Discusses self-esteem, optimism, intelligence. and personal control. For researchers and practitioners. ... Read more

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The Psychology of Stalking is the first scholarly book on stalking ever published. Virtually every serious writer and researcher in this area of criminal psychopathology has contributed a chapter. These chapters explore stalking from social, psychiatric, psychological and behavioral perspectives. New thinking and data are presented on threats, pursuit characteristics, psychiatric diagnoses, offender-victim typologies, cyberstalking, false victimization syndrome, erotomania, stalking and domestic violence, the stalking of public figures, and many other aspects of stalking, as well as legal issues. This landmark text is of interest to both professionals and other thoughtful individuals who recognize the serious nature of this ominous social behavior.

Key Features
* First scholarly book on stalking ever published
* Contributions from virtually all major researchers in field
* Discussion of what to do when being stalked
* Uses examples from recent publicized cases ... Read more

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Junk from an all American quack
This is the witch doctor whose second-hand shrinking (he never actually met the patient) led to the imprisonment of Timothy Lee Masters for the murder of Peggy Hettrick, a crime we now know he did not commit.An innocent man went to prison for a decade because of the sexual fantasies of Jerk Reid Meloy who like Nostrodamus imagines his powers of perception to be so acute that he can solve murders by viewing the margin doodles of a normal fifteen year old boy.

Not once in this book, nor any other book, have Meloy's theories been substantiated using a standard double-blind scientific method.This is wacko academia at its worst:loud talking and unsubstantiated fantasy on the same level as palmistry or phrenology.

Good Read!
Great intro to stalking behavior and the signs, symptoms, and preventive measures one can take. I found this book informative, well-researched, and insightful. Certainly, a good resource for anyone interested in stalking, domestic violence, or general offender behavior.

great book
great book.good look from a psychological standpoint.Very imformative.He ties together information on threats, stalking and assassination.

This book does not treat cases of multiple stalkers,....
I am a licensed psychotherapist with a personal and professional interest in 'multiple stalking' cases, in which a perpetrator organizes other individuals, likely strangers to the victim, to stalk and harass a feared or hated target individual, often over the internet.

This is a basic, beginning book, written in 1998 and way behind in filling the need, considering the proliferation of actual crimes originating on the internet especially those in which a single website recruits or incites multiple individuals, usually strangers, as stalkers against one individual. In addition, unfortunately, this well-meaning but limited book has likely set back law enforcement help for victims of multiple-stalker, internet-originating crimes by years:

In particular, the chapter on 'false victimization' is unnecessary and could well have been left out as it gives inexperienced, overburdened or uncaring law enforcement personnel, as they read the chapter about a variety of cases which at first sound like legitimate stalking cases but turn out to be false alarms, rationale to superimpose them upon all pleas to law enforcement for help, and justification to dismiss out of hand legitimate cases as illegitimate -- without investigation.

Other examples of little or no cyberstalking training (in the LAPD; there is no cyberstalking section though the law now mandates it): A lone law enforcement individual manning the phone at LAPD's 'cyberstalking' section has said, 'cyberstalking is threatening e-mails -- period!'(2001).(This misapprehension is not discredited in Meloy's book.)Another LAPD detective, a woman, said, 'Just don't go on line', and when she heard about skin-burning chemicals inserted in the victim's newspapers, 'Just stop taking the newspaper'. Another detective, when hearing about a rationally-described but complicated case of internet-originated stalking and harassment insisted that the victim go into a psychiatric facility for a three-day hold in order to 'determine what is going on' -- this is without the first attempt at interview or investigation. Other detectives, more restrained, have explained that they need 'proof' before even beginning an investigation and gathering proof,leaving the victim in a helpless, catch-22 situation (and, being put off by the multiple-stalker nature of the crime as described refused to look at the evidence at hand).

There are now many published accounts of individuals who have been targeted by people who want them dead or distracted (or, in some cases, discredited, as victims are often disbelieved when there are no witnesses and the harassment takes forms which leave little in the way of evidence)and who use the internet to accomplish such a crime without their risking being an actual part of it. One was of a woman who, working for Housing and Urban Development, had tried to integrate an all-white neighborhood. A white-supremicist set up a website and put her and her 18-year old daughter's personal information on it, inciting others to go after them. They had to move from house to house, state to state; each time the website updated their new, 'secret' information. (Finally, HUD sued this operator on the woman's behalf and won; it is unclear if he has stopped his mischief.) Another is of an editor of a progressive Jewish publication which has criticized Israel for being too hard on the Palestinians; he had death threats and had his address, phones, family names, published on a radical fundamentalist Israeli website, inciting strangers to make frequent death threats. Another victim, a grown woman, who confronted her paranoid and psychopathic father with the fact of her childhood sexual abuse by him later found herself a target of unknown people for years before finding out her father, who was afraid without reason of being incarcerated was behind it; she was forced to move from house to house, ending up incarcerated inside her own home due to the types of 'non-provable', 'high-tech' harassment techniques used by her father's cohorts (paid, or recruited over the internet)and cut off from other members of her family by her father's making sure everyone knew about his previously respected daughter's 'delusions of persecution'. --In this case, virtually every technique used, when spoken about, did sound like the delusions of a paranoid schizophrenic; such discrediting was the point of the crime, though the facts in this case were true.(Psychotherapists, take heed.)

Meloy doesn't mention multiple stalkers in his book, in fact, denigrates such stories by default and by being too vague in describing the differences between false and real cases (investigators 'had the feeling' the case was false), doing nothing to prevent law enforcement, with little more in the way of studies to go on, from concluding that more often than not a given case is 'self-harm' or simply a lie.

Psychotherapists: Many or most psychotherapists also have no choice, not hearing or knowing about the increasing multiple stalking cases (and being themselves too shocked at such stories and in denial -- as the society was about child abuse, wife-beating and one-person stalking for decades before acknowledging the seriousness and actuality of these crimes; and as we all were about the reality of terrorist threats to our nation though there was plenty of evidence for years apparently that these threats were real) they leap to the conclusion that their client is delusional. In fact, to be fair, most multiple-stalking cases are burgeoning exponentially, at the same rate as the internet, and all of this is new. (As Meloy, to his credit, attests, and he gives sound reasons why a person, who might not have been a criminal before the advent of the internet, might resort to deadly and terrorizing tactics when he thinks the internet will allow him impunity. p. 12)

There are now two cyberstalking laws in California (written after the book was written); one convicted a man (named Delapenta) who had set up a website in the name of a woman he had been turned down by for a date. He had published her name, address, phone, and ways to bypass her security system on this site; he said (as if he was she) 'she' wanted to be raped and to ignore any calls for help she might make -- that this was just part of 'her' game. The young woman was terrified at the calls and visits by strange men and remained so for at least a year after the perpetrator was caught (by her father spending weeks searching on line at first and then pretending to be a website visitor, and by two men who came to her door admitting what was going on; not by any police investigation).

There are many such stories which have been published, which make use of personal identity information on the internet, including photographs (in one known case, brazenly taken head-on of the victim by strangers with long-distance lenses in food stores, concerts, in an empty hotel lobby after a conference, across a children's playground of herself and her grandchild -- the stunned victim found that the photographers drove away in cars which had no license plates), to recruit and evoke stranger-stalkers to target one individual. Some sites might be 'dead pool' sites, which include gambling on the person's death date --this is an effective come-on as, unlike 'hate sites', 'players' have the impetus of winning money or earning it through individual assaults or 'attacks'. These may be like a computer game, but in which a real person has been chosen (likely by a known perpetrator, maybe a family member -- like the father who was afraid without cause that he, himself, would become incarcerated or abandoned if his abuse of his daugher came to light)to be the target in real life. Some of the sites may require illicitly shared software in order to 'play' and the website may not be findable by ordinary search techniques. A person playing this 'game' might get points for making one or more assaults of some kind on the victim, terrorizing her/him and possibly hastening his/her death by suicide or homicide. There was one such report (1997) of a Dungeons and Dragons game, originating on the internet but played out on the street, which resulted in the suicides of three terrified teenagers.

Clearly a new book needs to be written, and soon, incorporating all the now-known cases of multiple (stranger)stalkers elicited on the internet targeting a single individual as well as the continued gap in law enforcement between what needs to be known about how to investigate these cases (sophisticated cyber-training and sections in police departments devoted to such crimes) and how victims are being treated today. Likely legistatures need to vote money toward these sections and not just make new cybercrime laws.

This book does not treat cases of multiple stalkers,....
I am a licensed psychotherapist with a personal and professional interest in 'multiple stalking' cases, in which a perpetrator organizes other individuals, likely strangers to the victim, to stalk and harass a feared or hated target individual, often over the internet.

This is a basic, beginning book, written in 1998 and way behind in filling the need, considering the proliferation of actual crimes originating on the internet especially those in which a single website recruits or incites multiple individuals, usually strangers, as stalkers against one individual. In addition, unfortunately, this well-meaning but limited book has likely set back law enforcement help for victims of multiple-stalker, internet-originating crimes by years:

In particular, the chapter on 'false victimization' is unnecessary and could well have been left out as it gives inexperienced, overburdened or uncaring law enforcement personnel, as they read the chapter about a variety of cases which at first sound like legitimate stalking cases but turn out to be false alarms, rationale to superimpose them upon all pleas to law enforcement for help, and justification to dismiss out of hand legitimate cases as illegitimate -- without investigation.

Other examples of little or no cyberstalking training (in the LAPD; there is no cyberstalking section though the law now mandates it): A lone law enforcement individual manning the phone at LAPD's 'cyberstalking' section has said, 'cyberstalking is threatening e-mails -- period!' (2001)(This misapprehension is not discredited in Meloy's book.)Another LAPD detective, a woman, said, 'Just don't go on line' and when she heard about skin-burning chemicals inserted in the victim's newspapers, 'Just stop taking the newspaper'. Another detective, when hearing about a rationally-described but complicated case of internet-originated stalking and harassment insisted that the victim go into a psychiatric facility for a three-day hold in order to 'determine what is going on' -- this is without the first attempt at interview or investigation. Other detectives, more restrained, have explained that they need 'proof' before even beginning an investigation and gathering proof,leaving the victim in a helpless, catch-22 situation (and, being put off by the multiple-stalker nature of the crime as described refused to look at the evidence at hand). (...) ... Read more

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Why, during the Holocaust, did some ordinary people risk their lives and the lives of their families to help others--even total strangers--while others stood passively by? Samuel Oliner, a Holocaust survivor who has interviewed more than 700 European rescuers and nonrescuers, provides some surprising answers in this compelling work. ... Read more

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The Rescue of (Mostly Polish) Jews, Future Extermination of Poles, "Jewish Passivity", etc.
The head author, Samuel Oliner, was a rescued Polish Jew when a boy. This work analyzes the motives and attitudes of those who rescued Jews, and attempts to compare them with a control group of co-nationals who did not engage in such rescue. In addition, this book presents excellent historical context to the events it describes, and it is this historical context that is the focus of this review.

The authors have a good grasp of the chief cause of prewar Polish-Jewish tensions: "The conspicuous roles of Jews as merchants, money-lenders, estates supervisors, and tax collectors in medieval Poland eventually attracted the hostility of Poles from social classes either aspiring to these positions or suffering under the policies Jewish middlemen enforced for kings and nobles." (p. 27).

Oliner and Oliner place the destruction of 90% of Poland's Jews in the context of German exterminatory policies against Poles: "From the outset of the occupation, German rule in Poland was direct and brutal...Since the Nazi regarded the Poles as untermenschen (subhumans) destined for immediate enslavement and future liquidation, they did not restrain their oppression of Jews or Poles in deference to local public opinion." (p. 25).

Most individuals of virtually all nationalities tend to proceed to their executions without resisting or attempting to escape, and "Jewish passivity" has commonly been misrepresented in this regard. In contrast, Oliner and Oliner correctly understand the actual nature of "Jewish passivity": "To the Polish Underground, the compliance of the Jewish councils with German decrees cast doubts on the value of forging an alliance with the Jews...Judenrat leaders based their compliance with German orders on the assumptions that it might placate the Nazis...Outside the ghettos, however, these strategies were interpreted as expressions of Jewish servility or collaboration with the enemy...Since the primary goal of the AK was to build a secret army capable of rising against Germany later in the war when the Reich was on the verge of defeat, the leadership of the AK believed that arming the Jews would be a wasteful diversion of scarce weapons to a group that had failed to manifest any overt resistance to the Germans up to that point." (pp. 28-31).

A common motive for Poles not helping Jews was the fear of the German-imposed death penalty (p. 140). So was the extreme privation faced by Poles themselves. For instance, urban Poles had a legal ration of only about 1,200 calories daily (p. 76), causing obvious problems for any feeding of fugitives.

The inflammatory role played by the Zydokomuna (Jewish Communism) is recounted: "For example, Lithuanian nationalism contained a significant anti-Semitic streak that intensified under German influence during the 1930s and in reaction to Jewish collaboration with Soviet occupation forces in 1940."(p. 18). Of course, the same was true, to a much less severe extent, of Polish nationalism.

On numerous occasions (e. g., p. 53, 94-95, 101, 130, 139), Oliner and Oliner point out that Polish rescuers of Jews included members of the AK and close associates of the same. This adds refutation to the scurrilous charges of some (e. g., Yaffa Eliach) who have asserted that the AK was implementing some sort of secret plan to exterminate Poland's remaining Jews.

A seldom-discussed factor in the occasional Polish killings of fugitive Jews was the fact that the latter sometimes attacked Poles, as described in the following: "Another Pole complained bitterly that his household was stripped bare of its belonging by a Jewish partisan group. Learning that he was actually involved in a Jewish [rescue] network, they returned some of his possessions--`but only a fraction', he said." (p. 72).

The reader may be surprised to learn that informers for the Germans included Jews: "Lured by promises of postponed deportations for themselves or their families, or hope of avoiding torture, individual Jews also became informers, betraying rescuers and rescued. Several rescuers relate such incidents...they [suspicions of Jewish collaboration] were sufficient to make rescuers wary even of Jews themselves." (p. 103). (Not mentioned is the fact that many Polish informers had earlier been broken by Gestapo tortures. In fact, members of the Polish Underground who had once fallen into the hands of the Gestapo were labeled "burned up", and never fully trusted again.)

On balance, Oliner and Oliner suggest that both Poles and Jews misrepresent history: "The totality of German domination in Poland was undoubtedly the key factor that doomed the Polish Jews. Nevertheless, pro-Polish sources generally exaggerate Polish solidarity with the Jews and minimize Polish anti-Semitism as a cause for the relatively low numbers of rescued Jews, whereas pro-Jewish sources often commit the opposite errors. Although Nazi terror made it more difficult and dangerous to help Jews in Poland then anywhere else in Europe, it still appears that many Poles did not feel obligated to protect the Jews, whom they either disliked or dismissed as aliens." (p. 31).

Perhaps ironically, just two pages earlier, Oliner and Oliner (p. 29) point out that only 12% of Poland's Jews had, just before the war, indicated Polish as their native language. The remainder spoke either Yiddish or Hebrew, either chiefly or exclusively. This, plus the self-imposed cultural apartheid of Polish Jewry and the fact that many prewar Jewish political leaders had attempted to make Jews a (privileged) nation-within-nation, may help the reader understand why Poles tended to see their Jews as aliens.

Finally, Oliner and Oliner conclude: "Whatever the figure, it does seem clear that tens of thousands of Jews were saved by Polish individuals or networks like Zegota. Moreover, it is equally certain that thousands of Poles were executed or died in concentration camps for trying to help Jews." (p. 29).

Excellent insights
Every teacher, social service provider and parent should read this book.It is not an easy read, but well worth the effort.One key conclusion is that discipline techniques in early childhood have profound, lasting effecton adult personalities and values. ... Read more

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The increasing focus on children's welfare has given rise to tremendous growth in the field of child psychology, and the past decade has witnessed significant advances in research in this area. ... Read more

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Thank you
As one of the authors of a chapter in this book, I am humbled by the reviews I have read. Now I am going to spend my money to get a copy, lol!

Highly recommended for pediatric clinical workers.
I am writing about the 3rd edition, which is the most current volume.The only disappointment that I have about this text is that I did not obtain it much earlier.The chapters are well written with many references for further study.The practitioner can keep abreast of the current literature on topics that s/he may already be familiar, or obtain authoritive information about other clinical areas not part of one's regular practice.This text is not written in the style of a dictionary, that is, the reader is given a summary in the style and length of a journal article.The book compliments the older volumes of the American Handbook of Psychiatry for which I have still found much use.

I also give strong recommendation for the Social Worker's Desk Reference that is available on Amazon.This latter book is a 2002 text that for some disorders gives a better summary than the Handbook.The Desk Reference is of value regardless of one's clinical license.

Is it worth it?
The strength of the book is that it summarizes the main issues on assessment and treatment quite well. Certainly worthwhile for a quick reference to current opinion on topics but if you're after the finer detail of theory this may not be your book and you might want to try "Child Psychopathology" by Mash & Barkley. The question to ask is, is this book worth $170USD new? If you don't mind spending this money then the book is a useful addition to a professional library for advanced students and professionals.

Handbook of clinical child psychology
This is indeed the "Bible" for the clinical child psychologist. As a pediatrician, who through all my professional life have worked closely with child psychologists, permit me to review this very serious and professional handbook. It is edited by C Eugene Walker from Oklahoma and Michael C Roberts from Kansas with 114 contributors (all from United States). The first edition of the handbook was published 18 years ago and it has since turned into a reference and guide for students, adademics and clinicians in the field. The book is divided into seven sections with a total of 55 chapters. The first section deals with child development and the first chapter with families and children in history with a focus on American history, but I especially liked the chapter by Judith A Chafel and Kathryn Gold Hadley on poverty and well-being of children and their families. This is a new addition to this edition, but a very important one. Poverty and hunger are old phenomena, but only recently become a subject of research and interest to politicians. They should be interested, because poverty is a major public health problem in many developed countries. Data from 1996 in the United States estimate that 20.5% of the children were living in poverty. This well researched paper will give you information on definition of poverty, effects on development, health and psychosocial risks, resiliency and implications for clinical intervention. Section two provides different diagnostic assessments of children and adolescents, section three deals with problems of early life and clinical problems of birth, neonatology, infant and preschool period and section four about problems of childhood. This last section has 16 chapters with some interesting entries. I especially liked the chapter on mental retardation, which takes into account the 1992 American Association on Mental Retardation (AMMR) definition of mental retardation, where not only IQ, but multidimential classification was used as a novel way to look upon mental retardation. I would have liked an entry on the use of the word "mental retardation", which is very much debated (sometimes very hotly like at the last international conference in Seattle in August 2000) and at all not in use in many parts of the world, where instead the term "intellectual disability" is preferred. Section five has nine relevant chapters on adolescence, but I would like to see a chapter on teenage pregnancy in the next edition, because that is especially a problem in United States and United Kingdom, where we are talking about potential psychological risks for the next generation also. Section six conveys intervention strategies with good chapters on hospitalization and pharmacotherapy among others. The last section has special topics like cultural issues, divorce, grief, ethics and forensic evaluation. The chapter on impact of a parent chronic illness is very interesting and I would also suggest a chapter on chronic illness or disability in the child for the next edition. This topic is mentioned in another chapter (on contemporary issues), but deserves a full chapter. The words disability and intellectual disability are not mentioned even in the index. In this section I especially like the chapter on child maltreatment by Barbara L Bonner and collegues, which is a good review of the field of child abuse and neglect, but again the focus in on the United States and international work in the field not mentioned. A chapter on research in child psychology and the use of internet should be added for the next edition. The effects of the internet on children and adolescents should also be added. We recently had a case here in Israel, where an internet connection between two adolescents (a Jewish male and Arab female) were used by terrorists to capture and murder the 14 year old boy. I would have liked to see a section eight with chapters on the future of infancy, childhood and adolescence both in the United States, but also a chapter on international work and research in the field of child psychology. All in all a very positive review for a very useful handbook that can be used by both psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and physicians and thanks for a good editing job. It was a pleasure to read and use this handbook.

Professor Joav Merrick, MD, DMSc Medical Director, Division for Mental Retardation, Box 1260, IL-91012 Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: jmerrick@aquanet.co.il

An Important Text on Clinical Child Psychology
Although this text could use a new edition, it remains one of the more complete collections of reviews of literature in the clinical dhild psychology. The Handbook of Clinical Child Psychology stands as thestandard reference guide for practitioners, students, professors, andresearchers in the field, and likely will until it is replaced with a thirdedition. ... Read more

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The 8 Colors of Fitness: Discover Your Color-Coded Fitness Personality and Create an Exercise Program You'll Never Quit! (Oakledge Press, 2008)

The 8 Colors of Fitness is a personality-based approach to a physically active lifestyle based on 8 sets of preferences each corresponding to a Color - The 8 Colors. By identifying your Color - and each of us falls into one of the 8 Colors, readers get a snapshot of their exercise personality.Whether you're trying to include physical activity in your basic wellness program, an exercise enthusiast, or training for peak performance--this book is for you.

The 8 Colors of Fitness begins with a short personality assessment to guide readers in discovering their Color-Coded Fitness Personality.By identifying these preferences, readers will be well on their way to achieving their fitness goals in the most enjoyable and effective way possible. Each of the 8 color chapters includes an overall description of the personality, and follows with the approach, motivation, focus, preferred environments, roadblocks, tips and favorite activities.

Through her six years of research, the author has collected fitness success stories from people around the world.The stories are delightfully sprinkled throughout the book enabling readers to meet real people describing in their own words how they maintain a physically active lifestyle in keeping with their personality.

The book also includes a separate section for personal trainers and employee fitness professionals with suggestions on how best to communicate with each personality type for maximum results.

The 8 Colors of Fitness is based on the framework of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® assessment.The 8 Colors of Fitness program is breaking new ground in the application of the MBTI® instrument. ... Read more

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Selecting a Long Term Excersize Program for Your Persoality
When I finished reading my copy of this book, I purchase 14 more. So that I could distribute them to salesmen at our national sales meeting. I tied the book's personality tyep and stratgies into a motivational speech on health and fitness and overall life adn sles success. Unlike me, most of our sales force is under 40, and still searching for their "life strategies". I offered this book as a great starting place to learn how their personality traits can be used to help them determine the effective long term exercise programs that they could stay with throughout their lives.I expanded on this and used the personality trait analyses that the book defines to branch into other areas such as how to make a an effective sales presentation and howto ask for the order, i.e. the "CLOSE".I found the book well written and and extremely useful.

I suggest you take the "Personality Quiz" at the author's website at: [...] to determine your personality type and what it means in terms of exercise and strategies and lifestyles.
PS. I am"Silver Efficient".

MG, Cherry Hill,The 8 Colors of Fitness: Discover Your Color-Coded Fitness Personality and Create an Exercise Program You'll Never Quit! NJ

Just the Answers I Needed...Great Information
This book gave me the answers I needed as to why I could not/would not stick to an exercise program. I am an MBTI enthusiast and know my type fairly well and knew my personality was a missing link to my fitness problem but could never put this missing piece into place.Straightforward, to the point, practical examples for all the types.Worth the price.

8 Colors Takes an Innovative and Fresh Look at Fitness
The 8 Colors is the first ever book that looks at the person who is engaging in exercise and what might make the person tick, rather looking at exercise as something that is one-size fits all.I have often picked up a fitness magazine or an article on exercise, only to put it down as quickly as I picked it up, because I could not relate to the age old advice.For instance, as an ENFJ Purple Harmony, I don't do well with an exercise pal, deplore accountability as I KNOW what I have to do, and like to take a familiar path so my thoughts are free to wander.I hate tracking my progress on a spread sheet, am thrown off by "changing up" my routine and would never contemplate engaging what I see as "high risk" sports activites such as white water rafting, snow skiing or hiking in unknown terrain.Now I know why; its of course based on typology.Suzanne Brue has charted new and exciting territory in world of the MBTI(r), psychological type and exercise and fitness.

Thanks to Suzanne!

Great Motivational Book To Exercise for Physical and Mental Health
I strongly recommend The 8 Colors of Fitness.
It is a very readable book, and well researched.
If you want to exercise more,
you will see yourself in some of the excellent examples of the 8 personality types,
and be inspired to exercise.
I am the Roaring Red color and it certainly helped me.
You also become a lot more perceptive about your family and friends
personality types.

Essential reading
This book should be the first reference for anyone looking to start a fitness program, and is essential reading for anyone involved in improving the fitness of others.

As a personal trainer, I thought that over eight years experience working with hundreds of individuals had given me a great insight into how to motivate people and ensure that they achieve their goals. The information contained in the book has enabled me to have an even greater understanding of what makes my clients tick. The 8 colors of fitness uses Myers Briggs Type Indicator (one of the most widely used personality tests) to help determine the best approach to exercise motivation, favourite activities and preferred environments as well as identifying specific barriers to exercise for each of the personality types.

The author demonstrates an exceptional ability to simplify such an in-depth subject into an easily useable system. Whatever your current level of fitness or motivation, this book will help you to get started or achieve greater results from your current training. ... Read more

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This 7th Edition helps students unravel the mysteries of human behavior through its highly readable introduction to the ideas of the most significant personality theorists.

Engaging biographical sketches begin each chapter, and unique capsule summaries help students review key concepts.  Theories come alive through the inclusion of quotations from the theorists’ writings and numerous applications such as dream interpretation, psychopathology, and psychotherapy.

Significant changes in the 7th edition include an extended discussion of the practical applications of personality theory, with an emphasis on guidelines that can help people increase their self-knowledge, make better decisions, and live more fulfilling lives.

Fictionalized but true-to-life examples illustrating the perils of inadequate self-knowledge include college students, parents, terrorists, business executives, and politicians, while other examples show the positive outcomes that can result from a better understanding of one’s unconscious.

This 7th edition also includes a more extensive discussion of how a lack of self-understanding caused difficulties for such noted theorists as Freud and Erikson, and a new section that explains how behavior can be strongly influenced by the situation as well as by one’s personality.

Finally, a new interactive web site provides practice test questions and other topics of interest.

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An edited collection of essays on the origins, nature, and effects of hate. This groundbreaking book brings together experts on the psychology of hate to present their diverse viewpoints in a single volume. ... Read more

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Very Poor
Unfortunately, this book failed miserably as an empirical attempt to understand hate, and instead leaned heavily towards simplistic formulations to try and eliminate hate by merely describing it, and implicating Whites most often in its cause and effect on others. I really didn't expect anything else, but occasionally surprises do happen. I know Robert J. Sternberg's work, and he comes from the Marxist wing of the deniers of racial differences. With Sternberg as editor, I suspected this book would be biased, and I was correct. So the best I can do, rather than shed any more light on the evolutionary basis of hate, anger, fear and disgust, is to shed some light on how even today's psychology is very close to the Standard Social Science Model (SSSM), and therefore unable to produce good research.

I am reading the book Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature, by David J. Buller, 2005, and he states, "But Gould's argument fails to substantiate even this weaker charge. For Evolutionary Psychologists answer Gould's question by claiming that there are three sources from which we can obtain information about the [Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation] EEA: the design of our adaptations, studies of extant hunter-gatherer societies, and primate studies. Therefore, showing that we can't possibly have any evidence for Evolutionary Psychology's adaptive hypotheses requires more than Gould's rhetorical question about how we can know what our ancestors did two million years ago; it requires examining the three sources of evi­dence that Evolutionary Psychologists claim can substantiate their adap­tive hypotheses. Gould, however, fails to discuss these sources of evidence and their relevance to his argument."

Likewise, as the introduction to The Psychology of Hate admits, "Psychologists have not generated a lot of theories of hate, certainly fewer than theories of love. A survey of some recent introductory social psychology texts revealed love as an index term in all of them but hate as an index term in none of them. The goal of this book is to help redress an imbalance--to propose a number of different theories that answer questions about hate in related, but different, ways. The theories proposed in this book cover the gamut, including clinical, cognitive, social, and eclectic emphases on understanding hate.

"Authors have been asked to address a common set of questions to ensure unity of their contributions: How do you conceptualize hate?; What evidence is there for this conceptualization?; How does your view relate to other views?; What do you see as the role of hate in terrorism, massacres, and genocides?; How, if at all, can hate be assessed?; How, if at all, can hate be combated?"

Note how they did not include "is there a genetic component to hate," or "how do we know that hate was not just as important as love in human evolution, and continues today as a mechanism for protecting a group's or an individual's self interests and resource acquisition?" No, the agenda was a more dialectical one, one conveniently used to establish fighting hate as a political tool for furthering an egalitarian agenda. That is Sternberg's style, set out a political agenda, then use pseudoscience to support it.

In psychometrics, the leading method for factoring behavioral traits is the Big Five or OCEAN: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. If any person is evaluated on these five factors, their personalities can be defined using the five scales. So why doesn't a book like The Psychology of Hate at least touch upon a supposed behavioral trait profile for haters or racists or authoritarian type people? Apparently, having primarily a political agenda and not a scientific one, such obvious questions would get in the way.

Sternberg then looks at "hate propaganda" as a process for persuading others to behave in a certain way. It seems his logic is what is heard every day on talk radio between Democratic and Republican advocates. The hate is venomous on both sides, it is devoid of empirical evidence, and it could easily fall into Sternberg's description of "hate propaganda." It is hard to unravel, because Sternberg has a habit of defining psychological mechanisms out of whole cloth, conjuring up new terms and labels, and then pathologizing anyone who disagrees with him on moral grounds.

An Important Read
The contents of this book make the book's academic style almost disappear. This is an important read that educates, fascinates and should motivate the reader. There are probably over a dozen doctoral dissertation opportunities within the book, as well.
We must all learn to understand hate and have a plan that we follow to overcome it and prevent it from operationalizing. This book can help us all.

William C. McConkey, Ph.D.

Great Comedy, Poor Scholarship
I have only finished the first four chapters. There are some great knee-slappers here, but most people would not seek out such a work for the humor.

Here all the tired baseless assumptions are trotted out one after another. Hate "caused" by people not liking each other...gosh, what an insight! Hate "caused" by people having bad things happen to them as children; yes, if only we can somehow guarantee that nothing bad will ever happen to any more children, then we might have a peaceful utopia! Hate "caused" by "devaluing" those who are different. So, like, we hate people because we hate them? And if only the two sides knew each other better...like for example in Bosnia where they had lived together and married each other for centuries? Yeah, that worked out great.... Of course, what they need is therapy! If only we can methodically destroy their illusions about themselves and others with "cognitive therapy," then we will manage to create people too depressed and suicidal to kill others! (Trivers, 2002, Taylor and Brown, and Mele, 1997, show that self-deception is adaptive and that those with an accurate view of themselves invariably suffer from depression, but that means more clients for these quacks!)

Meanwhile they work far harder to avoid knowledge than to find it. Staub cites 14 of his own works, while Beck and Pretzer manage to prove they are incompetent. Guys, a study that "shows" the effectiveness for "cognitive therapy" by comparing a treated group and a completely untreated group, without any sort of "blind" for subjects or researchers, and completely dependant on self-reporting, is not an "empirical" source of evidence for anything. Ever hear of the placebo effect? Researcher bias? I guess not. Real research has shown that none of the psychology models is more effective than another, and that minimally trained high school grads that offer an empathetic ear are also as good as any of them (see Dawes in Codes of Conduct, 1996). If any of the mound of garbage that they all pass off for an academic field was valid, surely one method would prove superior. How is it that two methods based on completely opposite views produce the same results? Why not just give everyone a sugar pill and save time?

One sees the wheels turning madly as they try to avoid any hint of the knowledge that humans have evolved psychologies which just happen to have a lot to do with the topic of hate, especially group hate. Guys, it is not all culture and how sucky a childhood we had.

Beyond the gross errors and the absurd, like Sternberg actually starting his paper with a dictionary definition (not OK after 9th grade...), the standard misunderstandings are all there as well. Conflation of individual level hate with group hate, for one (Ummmm, one is based on prejudice and one is not, one can be built on pro-social emotions towards one's group or nation, the other one cannot, etc.), and the jaw dropping inability to see that there are plenty of "others" that we are fine with, it is not just that they are "other" that starts the ball of hate rolling.

Then it just gets sad when they trot out their little solution kits. Yeah, let's go give therapy to Bin Laden so he can see our side of things and hear about our suffering. That's the ticket! It would be hilarious to seem them try. Let's see, Staub's grocery list would do any late '60's hippy proud..."love and affection...constructive fulfillment of basic human needs; humanizing the other...self-awareness...healing from past victimization..." Of course we must also toss in "Helping young people who come from difficult backgrounds or who have had painful experiences..." Well, who has not had a painful experience? Strange that there is no correlation between such a background and one's being willing to become a suicide bomber. College degrees, on the other hand, do make one more likely to blow oneself up. If they had one of these winners for a professor, I guess I can understand.

Great book if you want to laugh hard. If you want to understand the topic, the contents of this book have only negative value. The more you read, the less you will know, just like watching Faux New's coverage of Iraq. ... Read more

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I had read Personality Plus previously and it helped me understand my personality strengths and weaknesses. Then I bought Personality Puzzle to help me understand people in the workplace. I found it very easy to understand and apply the concepts. In fact, I have been giving presentations to small groups based on my research and this book is the basis for my presentation.

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I had read Personality Plus previously and it helped me understand my personality strengths and weaknesses. Then I bought Personality Puzzle to help me understand people in the workplace. I found it very easy to understand and apply the concepts. In fact, I have been giving presentations to small groups based on my research and this book is the basis for my presentation.

If you manage people at work, this book is a must. You will learn how to lead your staff into their strengths and hire your weaknesses. By understanding the four basic personality types, you can manage people better, reduce on-the-job stress and conflicts, improve workflow, and meet deadlines better. Even if you do not completely belive in the theory of personality typing, this book will help you understand why people behave in predictable way.

If you are an employee who is having personality conflicts with coworkers, read this book. It will help you to first understand your own personality (by taking the included test) and then you can understand your coworker's personality. When you know your strengths, you can use them to your advantage and you will understand your weaknesses so that you can minimize them.

A must for learning how to get along with people at work
I had read Personality Plus previously and it helped me understand my personality strengths and weaknesses. Then I bought Personality Puzzle to help me understand people in the workplace. I found it very easy to understand and apply the concepts. In fact, I have been giving presentations to small groups based on my research and this book is the basis for my presentation.

If you manage people at work, this book is a must. You will learn how to lead your staff into their strengths and hire your weaknesses. By understanding the four basic personality types, you can manage people better, reduce on-the-job stress and conflicts, improve workflow, and meet deadlines better. Even if you do not completely belive in the theory of personality typing, this book will help you understand why people behave in predictable way.

If you are an employee who is having personality conflicts with coworkers, read this book. It will help you to first understand your own personality (by taking the included test) and then you can understand your coworker's personality. When you know your strengths, you can use them to your advantage and you will understand your weaknesses so that you can minimize them.

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Great book for assessment class!
This book by Ganellen is an excellent resource for two of the personality assessment classes I teach at the graduate level.Integrating MMPI-2 and Rorschach findings is a critical aspect of good assessment, and this book is an outstanding resource in helping the reader effectively integrate the two instruments. It uses well-selected and instructive cases to highlight the processes involved.I would recommend it highly to anyone interested in this topic--for teaching or for practicing psychological assessment. A must read.Hale Martin, Ph.D.

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Very simply this is the best resource book on integration of the Rorschach and MMPI-2.Scholarly, very well researched, and well reasoned, this book assists clinicians with the complexities of working with the two most highly studied personality tests, offering a clear and comprehensive basis for what each test can and cannot do. Be sure to read the glowing Editorial Reviews above, written by some of the top scholars on both the Rorschach and MMPI-2.

Not so great for integrating
This book has more case studies than useful chapters for learning how to integrate the Rorschach and MMPI.The case studies do all the work for you instead of leading you through it or allowing you to do it for yourself.Not useful for my assessment course, I felt. ... Read more

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This comprehensive, balanced guide to personality assessment, written by two of the foremost experts in the field, is sure to become the gold standard of texts on this topic. The Handbook of Personality Assessment covers everything from the basics, including a historic overview and detailed discussion of the assessment process and its psychometric foundations, to valuable sections on conducting the assessment interview and the nature, interpretation, and applications of the most popular self-report (objective) and performance-based (projective) measures. A concluding section of special topics such as computerized assessment, ethical and legal issues, and report writing are unique to this text. ... Read more

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This introductory book provides an accessible, systematic introduction to the major theoretical approaches to understanding the human personality. For each approach, a brief biographical outline of the originating theorist is given. Following these outlines, Pennington provides us with straightforward descriptions of the major aspects of each theory, clear definitions of key concepts, evaluations that address the 'model' of humans underlying the approach, and research evidence both in support of and in opposition to the theory at hand. Personality assessment and therapeutic applications of the theory or approach are also covered. The individual chapters include figures, diagrams and tables to further elucidate the theory and research under discussion. A summary and suggestions for further reading follow each chapter. ... Read more

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This trusted text centers on the premise that personality theories are a reflection of the unique cultural background, family experiences, personalities, and professional training of their originators. The book begins by acquainting students with the meaning of personality and providing them with a solid foundation for understanding the nature of theory, as well as its crucial contributions to science. The chapters that follow present twenty-three major theories: coverage of each theory also encompasses a biographical sketch of each theorist, related research, and applications to real life. The new edition includes greater coverage of the Big Five theory, a new organization, and updated research throughout. ... Read more

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super intersting!
I can open this book to any page and start reading up on a different interesting theory. The authors extensively describe the background of each theorist, and what their life and experiences were like, and how that could have influenced how they came to view the world the way they do. 23 major theories are discussed in depth, and philosophy is mixed in as well. Not another boring textbook by any means! If you're interested in learning what makes people the way they are, and want to learn about yourself along the way, you would enjoy this text.

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The Personality Puzzle offers everything students need to gain a sure understanding of personalitypsychology—balanced coverage of classic andcontemporary theories, accessible organizationand pedagogy—and the lively, often humorousprose of experienced teacher David Funder.Organized around the field's majordomains/paradigms—trait, biological,psychoanalytic, humanistic and crosscultural,and cognitive and learning—the text outlines the foundations of personality psychology andemphasizes the significance of contemporaryresearch. A new capstone chapter on personalitydisorders synthesizes thesedomains/paradigms.

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This was required reading!?
I couldn't believe this was a required text for my Personality Theories undergraduate course...it read like a novel! Unbelievably easy to read book, highly organize with bits of humor scattered throughout. You'll enjoy this book for both class and personal reading.

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This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between gender, the experience of psychological distress that we currently call borderline personality disorder, and the borderline diagnosis as a classification of psychiatric disorder. It offers a new emphasis on elements of female socialization as critical to the understanding of the development of symptoms currently labeled borderline, and should appeal to psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and other mental health professionals as well as graduate students in these disciplines. The book will also be valuable to those involved in the fields of women's studies, psychology of women, sociology, and the history of medicine. ... Read more

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Thoroughly updated to include the latest research references, Richard Ryckman's "theory by theory" approach to personality carefully guides students through major theories in a way that helps them develop a comprehensive understanding of personality. Ryckman's personal writing style presents the major theories in a straightforward way helping readers more easily distinguish between them. At the beginning of the text, Ryckman provides a framework that defines personality, and emphasizes the science of personality (including the interrelation between research and theory). Then, he introduces each major theoretical position with an objective overview of the theorist's basic concepts and principles. Ryckman concludes by noting the ways in which the different theories stimulate additional research efforts, and by presenting five current research trends that have resulted from the work of these earlier theorists. The result is a text that merges the best of classic and contemporary research in the field leaving students with a solid working knowledge of personality. ... Read more

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I am not very happy with some of the books ordered.I have been waiting over 3 weeks for a book to be shipped and it still has not arrived.Theories of Personality by the time I get the book my daughter will not be able to use it.All other books that we have ordered came with in like 7 days or less.This book I still have not received and not very happy.I guess I will order someplace else the next time I need books.

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I used this book for my Theories of Personality class in college and really liked this book.It is easy to navigate, understand and is written simplistically.I like how at the end of each chapter has a glossary of terms for easy reference and each chapter has subheadings, which make reading easier.The perfect book for a psych major and college student!

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I used this book for my Theories of Personalities class. It was very informative and help me with all of my assignments. The text goes into detail about the Psychologists' lives and their theories about the development of personality. There is a glossary at the end of each chapter which is very convenient, instead of flipping back to the end of the book to find definitions. I recommend this text to anyone who would like to learn about different theories of personality, and if they need help with the psychology class. ... Read more