Psychology of Personality
1
2021-2022
01008911
Psychology
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Compulsory
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
None.
Teaching Methods
Expositive.
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.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
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
Exam: 100.0%
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.
-Pervin, L.A., Cervone, D., & John, O.P. (2005). Personality: Theory and research. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Little, B. R. (2014). Well-doing: Personal projects and the quality of lives. Theory and Research in Education. doi:10.1177/1477878514545847