John E Williams

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The Importance of Psychological Traits: A Cross-Cultural Study (2002)Paperback - 2002, 6 December 2010

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Part of Series
The Springer Social Clinical Psychology
Part of Series
Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
Print Length
193 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Springer
Date Published
6 Dec 2010
ISBN-10
1441932984
ISBN-13
9781441932983

Description

All traits were not created equal. -WORCHEL AND COOPER (1983, p. 180) This book reports the findings from extensive cross-cultural studies of the relative importance ofdifferent psychological traits in 20 countries and the relative favorability of these traits in a subset of 10 countries. While the work is devoted primarily to professionals and advanced students in the social sciences, the relatively nontechnical style - ployed should make the book comprehensible to anyone with a general grasp of the concepts and strategies ofempirical behavioral science. The project grew out of discussions between the first author and third author while the latter was a graduate student at Wake Forest University, U.S.A., in 1990. The third author, a native of Chile, was studying person-descriptive adjectives composing the stereotypes - sociatedwiththe Chilean aboriginal minority knownas Mapuche (Saiz &Williams, 1992). Asweexaminedthe adjectives usedinthisstudy, it was clear that they differed in favorability and also on another dim- sionwhichwe latertermed "psychologicalimportance," i.e., the degree to which adjectives reflected more "central," as opposed to more "- ripheral,"personality characteristics. More important descriptors were those which seemed more informative or diagnostic ofwhat a person "wasreally like"and, hence, might be ofgreater significance in und- standing and predicting an individual's behavior.

Product Details

Authors:
John E WilliamsRobert C SatterwhiteJosé L Saiz
Book Edition:
2002
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
6 December 2010
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 1.12 cm
ISBN-10:
1441932984
ISBN-13:
9781441932983
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
193
Publisher:
Weight:
299.37 gm

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