Personality has been defined as the coherent patterning of affective, behavior, cognition, and desires/goals over time and space. This course will focus on theories of individual coherence and how they predict affective function and dysfunction in individuals. Methodology and current findings from various perspectives will be examined. Controversies that have existed in the field will be elucidated and resolutions examined. Although broad theories will be elucidated, the focus is on current directions in the fields of personality and affective science.
Week 1 – Monday: Introduction to Personality and Emotion (8/18)
- Revelle, W., & Scherer,
K. R. (2009). Personality and emotion. In D. Sanders & K. Scherer (Eds.), Handbook
of personality and affective science (pp. 304-305). New York: Oxford University Press.
- Barenbaum, N. B., &
Winter, D. B. (2008). History of modern personality theory and research. In O. P John, R. W. Robins, & L. A.
Pervin (Eds.). Handbook of personality:
Theory and research. (3rd. ed.). (pp. 3-28). New York: Guilford
Press. [JRP - Ch. 1]
- Funder, D. C. (2001).
Personality. Annual Review of Psychology, 52, 197-221.
Week 1 –
Wednesday: Personality and Emotion –
Where we’ve been, where we’re going (8/20)
- James, W. (1884). What is an emotion? Mind, 9, 188-205.
- Cannon, W.B. (1927). The James-Lange theory of emotions: A critical examination and an alternative theory. The American Journal of Psychology,
39, 106–124.
- Schachter, S., &
Singer, J. E. (1962). Cognitive, social, and physiological determinants of emotional state. Psychological Review, 69(5), 379-399.
- Ekman, P. (1999). Basic emotions. In T.
Dalgleish and M. Power (Eds.), Handbook
of cognition and emotion. (pp.
45-60). Sussex, U.K.: Wiley.
- Clore, G.L. & Robinson, M.D. (2012).
Five new ideas about emotion and their implications for social-personality psychology. In K. Deaux & M. Snyder (Eds.)
Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology (pp. 315-336). Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Week 2 – Monday: Psychometric Approaches to Personality (8/25)
- Allport, G.W. & Odbert, H.S. (1936). Trait-names: A psycho-lexical
study. Psychological Monographs,
47(211), 1 – 171. (you should read
only the first 37 pages).
- Cattell, R. B. (1943). The description of
personality: Basic traits resolved into clusters. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 38(4),
476–506.
- Fiske, D. T. (1949). Consistency of the
factorial structures of personality from ratings from different sources. Journal
of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 44, 329-344.
- Norman, W. T. (1963). Toward an adequate
taxonomy of personality attributes: Replicated factor
structure in peer nomination personality ratings. Journal of Abnormal and
Social Psychology 66(6),
574–583.
- Goldberg, L. R. (1990). An alternative
"description of personality": The Big-Five factor structure. Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, 59(6), 1216–1229.
- Ashton, M. C., & Lee, K. (2001). A
theoretical basis for the major dimensions of personality. European
Journal of Personality, 15, 327-353.
Week 2 – Wednesday: Theory of the Person/Situation Debate (8/27)
- Mischel, W.
(1973). Toward a cognitive social learning reconceptualization of personality. Psychological Review, 80,
252-283.
- Bem, D. J., & Allen, A.
(1974). On predicting some of the people some of the time: The search for cross-situational consistencies in behavior. Psychological
Review, 81, 506-520.
- Funder, D. C. (2008). Persons,
situations, and person-situation interactions. In O. P John, R. W. Robins,
& L. A. Pervin (Eds.). Handbook of personality: Theory and research.
(3rd. ed.). (pp. 568-582). New
York: Guilford Press. [JRP - Ch. 22]
- Fleeson, W., & Noftle, E. (2008).
The end of the person-situation debate: An emerging synthesis in the answer to the consistency question. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2, 1667-1684.
Week 3 – Monday: (9/1)
Labor Day – Rosalind
Franklin Closed
Week 3 –
Wednesday: The Person/Situation Debate and Emotions (9/3)
- Fleeson,
W. (2001). Toward a structure and process-integrated view of personality:
Traits as density distributions of
states. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 1011-1027.
- Revelle, W. (2012). Integrating
personality, cognition and emotion: Putting the dots together? In Eysenck, M. W., Fajkowska, M., and Maruszewski,
T., (eds.), Personality, cognition and
emotion. Warsaw Lectures in Personality and Social Psychology, (pp. 157-177). New York: Eliot Werner Publications,.
- Wiggins, J. S., & Broughton, R.
(1985). The interpersonal circle: A structural model for the integration of personality research. Perspectives in Personality, 1, 1-47.
- Moskowitz, D. S., & Côté, S. (1995). Do interpersonal
traits predict affect? A comparison of three
models. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 69(5), 915-924.
ESSAY #1 POSTED
Week 4 – Monday: More person-situation-emotion-reconciliation
(9/8)
- Tugade, M. M., Fredrickson, B. L., &
Barrett, L. F. (2004). Psychological resilience and emotional granularity: Examining the benefits of positive
emotions on emotion regulation and
health. Journal of Personality, 72,
1161 – 1190.
- Moskowitz,
D. S., & Côté, S. (1995). Do
interpersonal traits predict affect. A comparison of three models. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 69(5), 915-924.
- Mischel,
W., & Shoda, Y. (1998). Reconciling processing dynamics and personality dispositions. Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 229-258.
- Wilt,
J., Noftle, E. E., Fleeson, W., & Spain, J. S. (2012). The dynamic
role of personality states in mediating
the relationship between extraversion and positive affect. Journal of Personality,
80(5), 1205-1236.
Week 4 –
Wednesday: Personality Methodology (9/10)
- Paulhus, D. L., & Vazire, S. (2007). The self-report method. In R. W. Robins, R. C. Fraley,
& R. F. Krueger (Eds.),Handbook of
research methods in personality psychology (pp. 224 239). New York: Guilford.
- Conner, T., Barrett, L.
F., Tugade, M. M. & Tennen, H. (2007). Idiographic personality: The theory and practice of experience
sampling. In R. W. Robins, R. C. Fraley, & R. Kreuger (Eds.), Handbook of Research Methods in Personality
Psychology (pg. 79 – 96).
New York: Guilford Press
- John,
O. P., & Srivastava, S. (1999). The Big Five trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and theoretical perspectives. In L. A. Pervin & O. P. John
(Eds.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research (2nd ed.). (pp. 102-138). New York: Guilford.
- Moskowitz,
D. S., & Zuroff, D. C. (2004). Pulse, flux, and spin. Dynamic additions to
the personality lexicon. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 86(6), 880 – 893.
- West,
S. G., Ryu, E., Kwok, O.-M., & Cham, H. (2011). Multilevel modeling:
Current and future approaches in
personality research. Journal of
Personality, 79(1), 2-50.
ESSAY #1 DUE
Week 5 – Monday: Trait Models (9/15)
- John, O. P., Naumann, L. P., & Soto,
C. J.(2008). Paradigm shifts to the integrative big five trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and conceptual
issues. In O. P John, R. W. Robins,
& L. A. Pervin (Eds.). Handbook of personality:
Theory and research. (3rd. ed.). (pp. 114-158). New
York: Guilford Press. [JRP
- Ch. 4]
- McCrae, R.R., & Costa, P.T., Jr.
(1997) Personality trait structure as a human universal. American Psychologist, 52, 509-516.
- Presentation #1: Lauren Zaluda & Emily Weber
- Russell, J. A. (1980). A
circumplex model of affect. Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, 39(4), 1161-1178.
Week 5 – Wednesday: Emotional Traits and States (9/17)
- Schimmack,
U., & Diener, E. (1997). Affect intensity: Separating intensity and
frequency in repeatedly measured affect. Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology, 73, 1313- 1329.
- Augustine,
A. A & Larsen, R. J. (2012). Is a trait really the mean of states?
Similarities and differences
between traditional and aggregate assessments of personality. Journal
of Individual Differences, 33(3),
131-137.
- Presentation #2: Soyoung Suh & Hillary Gorin
- Diener, E., Larsen, R. J.,
Emmons, R. A. (1983). Person x Situation interactions: Choice of
situations and congruence response models. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 47(3), 580-592.
Week 6 – Monday: Evolutionary
Bases of Personality and Emotion (9/22)
- Buss, D. M. (2008). Human nature and
individual differences. In O. P John,
R. W. Robins, & L. A. Pervin (Eds.). Handbook
of personality: Theory and research. (3rd. ed.). (pp. 29 -60). New York: Guilford Press. [JRP
- Ch. 2]
- Nesse, R. M. (1990). Evolutionary
explanations of emotions. Human Nature, 1, 261-289.
- Presentation #3: Allison Novak & Adam Mathy
- Jonason, P. K., Li, N. P.,
Webster, G. D., & Schmitt, D. P. (2009). The dark triad: Facilitating
a short-term mating strategy in men. European
Journal of Personality, 23, 5-18.
Week 6 –
Wednesday: Evolution and Jealousy (9/24)
- Harris, C. R. (2003). A
review of sex differences in sexual jealousy, including self-report data, psychophysiological responses,
interpersonal violence, and morbid jealousy. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 7, 102-128.
- Sagarin, B. J. (2005).
Reconsidering evolved sex differences in jealousy: Comment on Harris (2003). Personality and Social
Psychology Review, 9, 62-75
- Presentation #4: Samantha Carreon & Chris Omahen
- Sabini, J.,
& Green, M. C. (2004). Emotional responses to sexual and emotional
infidelity: Constants and differences across genders, samples, and
methods. Personality and Social
Psychology Bulletin, 30(11), 1375-1388.
Week 7 – Monday: Behavioral Genetics and Developmental
Processes (9/29)
- Kruger,
R. F., & Johnson, W. (2008). Behavioral genetics and personality: A new
look at the integration of nature
and nurture. In O. P John,
R. W. Robins, & L. A. Pervin (Eds.). Handbook
of personality: Theory and research. (3rd. ed.). (pp.
287-310). New York: Guilford
Press.
- McGue,M.,
Bacon, S., & Lykken, D. T. (1993). Personality stability and change in
early adulthood: A behavioral
genetic analysis. Developmental Psychology,
29(1), 96-109.
- Srivastava
S, John OP, Gosling SD, & Potter, J. (2003). Development of personality in
early and middle adulthood: Set
like plaster or persistent change? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 1041–1053.
- Tellegen,
A., Lykken, D.T., Bouchard, T.J., Jr., Wilcox, K.J., Segal, N.L.
& Rich, S. (1988). Personality
similarity in twins reared apart and together. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 54,
1031-1039.
- Presentation #5: Dana Kelly & Anna Hamm
- Mroczek, D. K., & Spiro,
A., III (2003). Modeling intraindividual changes in personality traits:
Findings from the normative aging study. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences,58B(3),
P153-P165.
Week 7 – Wednesday: Temperament
(10/1)
- Strelau,
J., & Zawadzki, B. (1993). The formal characteristics of Behaviour Temperament Inventory (FCB-TI):
Theoretical assumptions and scale construction. European Journal of
Personality, 7(5), 313-336.
- Zelenski,
J. M. & Larsen, R. J. (1999). Susceptibility to affect: A comparison
of three personality
taxonomies. Journal of Personality,
67, 761-791.
- Presentation
#6: Divya Bhagavatula & Jill
Pevinsky
- Durbin, C.
E., Klein, D. N., Hayden, E. P., Buckley, M. E., & Moerk, K. C.
(2005). Temperamental emotionality in preschoolers and parental mood
disorders. Journal of Abnormal
Psychology, 114(1), 28-37.
ESSAY #2 POSTED
Week 8 – Monday: Attachment
(10/6)
- Pomerantz, E., & Thompson, R. A.
(2008). Parents' role in children's personality development. In O. P John, R. W. Robins, & L. A. Pervin
(Eds.). Handbook of personality:
Theory and research. (3rd. ed.). (pp. 351-374). New York:
Guilford Press. [JRP
- Ch. 13]
- Roberts, B., Wood, D., & Caspi, A.
(2008). The development of personality traits in adults. In O. P
John, R. W. Robins, & L. A. Pervin (Eds.). Handbook of personality:
Theory and research. (3rd.
ed.). (pp. 375-3984). New York: Guilford Press. [JRP
- Ch. 14]
- Fraley, R. C., & Shaver, P. R.
(2008). Attachment theory and its place in contemporary personality theory and research. In O. P John, R. W. Robins, & L. A. Pervin (Eds.). Handbook of
personality: Theory and research. (3rd. ed.). (pp. 518-541). New York: Guilford Press. [JRP
- Ch. 20]
- Presentation #7: Amanda Suttle & Jessica DeBaufer
- Green, J. D., & Campbell,
W. K. (2000). Attachment and exploration in adults. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26(4), 452-461
Week 8 –
Wednesday: Attachment, Emotion, and
Romantic Relationships (10/8)
- Shaver, P. R., &
Hazan, C. (1987). Romantic love conceptualized as an attachment process. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52(3), 511-524.
- Fraley, R. C., &
Waller, N. G. (1998). Adult attachment patterns: A test of the typological
model. In J. A. Simpson & W. S. Rholes (Eds.), Attachment theory and close relationships
(pp. 77-114). New York: Guilford Press.
- Mikulincer, M., &
Shaver, P. R. (2012). Attachment theory expanded: A behavioral systems approach to personality. In K. Deaux
& M. Snyder (Eds.), Oxford handbook of personality and social psychology. New York, NY: Oxford
University Press.
ESSAY #2 DUE
Week 9 – Monday: (10/13)
Columbus Day –
Rosalind Franklin Closed
Week 9 –
Wednesday: Psychoanalytic Thought (10/15)
- Kihlstrom, J. F. (2008). The
psychological unconscious. In O. P
John, R. W. Robins, & L. A. Pervin
(Eds.). Handbook of personality: Theory and research. (3rd. ed.). (pp.
583 602). New York: Guilford Press. [JRP
- Ch. 23]
- Shultheiss, O. C. (2008). Implicit
motives. In O. P John, R. W. Robins,
& L. A. Pervin (Eds.). Handbook
of personality: Theory and research. (3rd. ed.). (pp.
603-633). New York: Guilford
Press. [JRP - Ch. 24]
- Westen,
D., & Blagov, P. (2007). A clinical-empirical model of emotion
regulation: From defenses and
motivated reasoning to emotional constraint satisfaction. In J. Gross (Ed.), Handbook of emotion
regulation. NY: Guilford.
- Meehl,
P. E. (1978). (1978). Theoretical risks and tabular asterisks: Sir Karl, Sir
Ronald, and the slow progress of soft
psychology. Journal of
Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 46, 806-834.
- (while the whole
paper is well-worth reading and is taught again in Theoretical Psychopathology,
pay specific attention to Meehl’s response to Bouchard).
- Presentation #8: Sam Schmelter & Kelsey Snyder
- Greenwald, A. G., McGhee, D.
E., & Scwartz, J. L. K. (1998). Measuring individual differences in
implicit cognition: The Implicit Association Test. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74(6),
1464-1480.
Week 10 – Monday: Social Cognitive Models (10/20)
- Shoda,
Y., & Mischel, W. (1998). Personality as a stable cognitive-affective
activation network: Characteristic
patterns of behavior variation emerge from a stable personality structure. In S. J. Read & L. C. Miller (Eds.), Connectionist and PDP Models of Social Reasoning and Behavior.
NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 175-208.
- Mearns,
J. (2009). Social learning theory. In H. Reis & S. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of human relationships (vol. 3)
(pp. 1537-1540). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
- Presentation #9:
Emily Hoida & Jacey Keeney
- Bandura, A., & Cervone, D. (1984). Differential
engagement of self-reactive influence in cognitive motivation. Organizational Behavior and Decision
Processes, 38, 92-113.
Week 10 –
Wednesday: Social Cognitive Models
(10/22)
- Catanzaro,
S. J., & Mearns, J. (1990). Measuring generalized expectancies for negative mood regulation:
Initial scale development and implications. Journal of Personality Assessment, 54, 546-563.
- Bandura, A. (1961). Psychotherapy as a learning
process. Psychological Bulletin, 58(2),
143-159.
- Presentation #10: Daniel Kern & Rebecca Mayer
- Kassel, J. D., Bornovalova,
M., & Mehta, N. (2006). Generalized expectancies for negative mood
regulation predict change in anxiety and depression among college
students. Behavior Research and
Therapy, 45, 939-950.
Week 11 – Monday: Coping (10/27)
- Gross, J. J. (2008). Emotion and emotion
regulation: Personality processes and individual differences. In O. P John, R. W. Robins, & L.
A. Pervin (Eds.). Handbook of personality: Theory and research. (3rd. ed.). (pp. 701-724). New York:
Guilford Press. [JRP
- Ch. 28]
- Carver, C. S., Scheier, M. F., &
Fulford, D. (2008). Self-regulatory processes, stress, and coping. In O. P John, R. W. Robins, & L. A. Pervin (Eds.). Handbook
of personality: Theory and
research. (3rd. ed.). (pp. 725-742). New York: Guilford Press. [JRP
- Ch. 29]
- Folkman,
S., Lazarus, R. S., Dunkel-Schetter, C., DeLongis, A., & Gruen, R. J.
(1986). Dynamics of a stressful
encounter: Cognitive appraisal, coping, and encounter outcomes. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 50, 992-1003.
- Widiger,
T. A., & Presnall, J. R. (2013). Clinical applications of the five-factor
model. Journal of Personality, 81(6), 515-527.
- Presentation
#11: Scott Klappa & Angie Olsen
- Lopes, P.
N., Nezlek, J. B., Extremera, N., Hertel, J., Fernández-Berrocal, P., Schütz,
A., & Salovey, P. (2011). Emotion
regulation and the quality of social interaction: Does the ability to evaluate
emotional situations and identify effective responses matter? Journal of Personality, 79(2), 429-467.
Week 11 –
Wednesday: Personality and
Psychopathology (10/29)
- Clark,
L. A., & Watson, D. (1991). Tripartite model of anxiety and depression: Psychometric evidence and taxonomic
implications. Journal of Abnormal Psychology,
100, 316-336.
- Joiner,
T. E., Steer, R. A., Beck, A. T., Schmidt, N. B., Rudd,
M. D., & Catanzaro, S. J. (1999).
Physiological hyperarousal: Construct validity of a central aspect of a tripartite
model of depression and anxiety. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 108, 290-298.
- Watson,
D., & Clark, L. A. (1984). Negative affectivity: The disposition to
experience aversive emotional states. Psychological Bulletin, 96(3),
465-490.
- Eaton,
N. R., Krueger, R. F., Docherty, A. R., & Spnheim, S. R. Toward a model based approach to the clinical assessment of
personality and psychopathology. Journal of Personality
Assessment, 96(3), 283-292.
- Presentation
#12: Courtney Nelson & Ashley Taylor
- Trull, T.,
& Scher, K. (1994). Relationship between the five-factor model of
personality and Axis I disorders in a nonclinical sample. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 103(2),
350-360.
Week 12 – Monday: Catch Up and Review (11/3)
- Cramer,
A. O. J., van der Sluis, S., Noordhof, A., Wicherts, M., Geschwind, N., Aggen,
S. H., Kendler, K. S., & Borsboom,
D. (2012). Dimensions of normal personality as networks in search of equilibrium: You can’t like
parties if you don’t like people. European
Journal of Personality, 26,
414-431.
- Boroditsky, L. &
Ramscar, M. (2002). The roles of body and mind in
abstract thought. Psychological Science, 13(2), 185-188.
- Presentation #13: Lenel Reuther & Megan Ott
- Adler, J. M. (2012). Living into
the story: Agency and coherence in a longitudinal study of narrative identity
development and mental health over the course of psychotherapy. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 102(2), 367-389.
Week 12 –
Wednesday: (11/5)
- Paper Presentations
(no power point needed, five minutes per person)
- Papers Due
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