Psychology of Personality

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Expositive. Demonstration, practice and implementation of research, analysis and information sharing procedures through the construction of a project with an individual and group component that combines the promotion of knowledge and self-knowledge from a theory or topic of personality psychology and translates into written group work, a self-knowledge promotion task, and a presentation in class.

Learning Outcomes

To provide a theoretical and practical training.

– To study how a person works as a whole.

– To recognize the complexity of the study of personality;

– To reflect on the history and theoretical assumptions of the field

- To understand trends in contemporary psychology of personality

- To promote the interest in understanding the personality of oneself of the other.

- Critically choose ways to search, summarize and share information about Personality Psychology.

- Prepare ways to communicate information about Personality Psychology.

- Differentiate conceptual knowledge and self-knowledge about Personality Psychology.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

I. The complexity of studying Personality

1. What is personality?

2. ‘Personality’ from a transcultural and historical perspective

3. Theories and Meta-theories of personality

II. Trends in contemporary psychology of personality.

1. Topics that remain actual

2. New units of analysis and their historical contexts  

3. Inter and transdisciplinary trends

4. Eclecticism and methodological pluralism

5. Personality and the emerging epistemological paradigm.

Head Lecturer(s)

Margarida Maria Batista Mendes Pedroso Lima

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 25.0%
Exam: 75.0%

Bibliography

-Pervin, L.A., Cervone, D., & John, O.P. (2005). Personality: Theory and research. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

-McCrae, R. R., Terracciano, a., & Members of the Personality Profiles of Cultures Project. (2005b). Personality profiles of cultures: aggregate personality traits. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 407-425.

-McAdams, D. P. (1994), The person, EUA, Harcourt Brace College Publishers.

-Hall, C. S. & Lindsey, G. (1984), Teorias da Personalidade, São Paulo, EPU.

-Hansenne, M. (2003). Psicologia da Personalidade. Climepsi. Lisboa.

-Lima, Margarida P. (1997). NEO-PI-R Contextos teóricos e psicométricos – "Ocean" ou "Iceberg"?, tese de doutoramento, Coimbra.

- Little, B. R. (2014). Well-doing: Personal projects and the quality of lives. Theory and Research in Education. doi:10.1177/1477878514545847

-McMartin, J. (2016). Personality psychology: A student-centered approach. LA: SAGE Publications, Inc.