Readings for Psychology 740/U740: Personality



Psychology 740

Personality Psychology

Fall 2013

Dr. Claudia Brumbaugh

Office 369 Razran

E-mail Claudia.Brumbaugh@qc.cuny.edu

Office hours Tuesdays 5:00 – 7:00, and by appointment

Course Description The course focus is on contemporary research in personality and individual differences. Topics include measurement, the nature of dispositions, motivation, behavioral genetics, the brain, relationships, temperament, personality change, intelligence, health, work, and culture.

Exams (60%) Three examinations will be designed to test your understanding of the material in the text and readings. The exams will include multiple choice and short-answer essay questions. The three exams will not be cumulative and will be worth 60% of your course grade (at 20% each).

Reaction Blog (20%) In order to encourage class discussion and critical thinking, I would like you to post a reaction (equivalent to 1-page double-spaced) to 5 presentation articles, and comment on 1 other student’s post each week at . The reaction posts should include your thoughts, critiques, and questions regarding the week’s presentation article. The posts should not include summaries of the articles. Please post your online reactions each week by Saturday (by 8 pm) and your comments by Monday (by 5 pm). The posts and comments will be worth 20% of your course grade (5 posts at 1 point each & 10 comments at .50 each = 10 points possible).

Presentation (20%) Each student will be responsible for a 30-minute presentation on one of the articles that are listed as presentations. You can approach the presentation in your own way, but the main goal should be to encourage class discussion (do not go into detail on the procedures). You will be graded on three factors: 1) style, 2) knowledge of the material, and 3) discussion efforts. All students, presenting or not, should read the presentation article.

Academic Integrity Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to: Unacknowledged appropriation of the work of others, including plagiarism, the abuse of confidentiality with respect to unpublished materials, or other conduct which seriously deviates from accepted ethical standards in scholarship. Failure to comply with these standards of academic integrity will result in referral to the chair of the Psychology department and the Queens College administration. If a student is found to be cheating on an exam, he or she will receive a failing grade for that exam.

Schedule of Classes and Readings

Text: Corr, P. J. & Matthews, G. (2009). The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology.

Cambridge University Press.

Chapters marked supplemental are recommended for deeper understanding of the week’s topic.

Articles: All on e-reserve. PW = bru740

9/3 INTRODUCTION, HISTORY, AND MEASUREMENT

Text: Ch. 1: History and Conceptual Issues

Ch. 7: Methods of Personality Assessment

9/10 THE TRAIT APPROACH

Text: Ch. 9: Five-Factor Model

Ch. 6: Trait Approach (supplemental)

Articles: Gallagher, P., Fleeson, W., & Hoyle, R. H. (2011). A self-regulatory mechanism for personality trait stability: Contra-trait effort. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2, 335-342.

(Presentation) Cuperman, R., & Ickes, W. (2009). Big Five predictors of behavior and perceptions in initial dyadic interactions: Personality similarity helps extraverts and introverts, but hurts “disagreeables.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 667-684.

9/17 SITUATIONS

Text: Ch. 3: Traits and Situations

Ch. 2: Psychology of Situations (supplemental)

Articles: Geukes, K., Mesagno, C., Hanrahan, S. J., & Kellmann, M. (2012). Testing an interactionist perspective on the relationship between personality traits and performance under public pressure. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 13, 243-250.

(Presentation) Marshall, M. A., & Brown, J. D. (2006). Trait aggressiveness and situational provocation: A test of the traits as situational sensitivities (TASS) model. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 1100-1113.

9/24 TEMPERAMENT, DEVELOPMENT, AND GENES

Text: Ch. 11: Temperament

Ch. 18: Behavioral Genetics

Ch. 12: Lifespan Development (supplemental)

Articles: Nave, C. S., Sherman, R. A., Funder, D. C., Hampson, S. E., & Goldberg, L. R. (2010). On the contextual independence of personality: Teachers' assessments predict directly observed behavior after four decades. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1, 327-334.

(Presentation) Holder, M. D., Coleman, B., & Singh, K. (2012). Temperament and happiness in children in India. Journal of Happiness Studies, 13, 261-274.

10/1 FIRST EXAMINATION

10/8 ATTACHMENT THEORY, SOCIAL RELATIONS, AND EMOTION

Text: Ch. 4: Emotion

Ch. 14: Attachment

Articles: Eisenkraft, N., & Elfenbein, H. A. (2010). The way you make me feel: Evidence for individual differences in affective presence. Psychological Science, 21, 505-510.

(Presentation) Friedman, M., Rholes, S. W., Simpson, J., Bond, M., Diaz-Loving, R., & Chan, C. (2010). Attachment avoidance and the cultural fit hypothesis: A cross-cultural investigation. Personal Relationships, 17, 107-126.

10/15 no class

10/22 EVOLUTIONARY THEORY

Text: Ch. 16: Evolution

Ch. 17: Animal Models (supplemental)

Articles: Gosling, S. D., Kwan, V.S., & John, O. P. (2003). A dog’s got personality: A cross-species comparative approach to personality judgments in dogs and human. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 1161-1169.

(Presentation) Simpson, J. A., Griskevicius, V., Kuo, S., Sung, S., & Collins, W. (2012). Evolution, stress, and sensitive periods: The influence of unpredictability in early versus late childhood on sex and risky behavior. Developmental Psychology, 48, 674-686.

10/29 THE BRAIN

Text: Ch. 20: Neuroscience

Ch. 19: Neuroimaging (supplemental)

Articles: Cohen, M. X., Schoene-Bake, J. Elger, C. E., & Weber, B. (2009). Connectivity-based segregation of the human striatum predicts personality characteristics. Nature Neuroscience, 12, 32-34.

(Presentation) Hane, A. A., & Fox, N. A. (2006). Ordinary variations in maternal caregiving influence human infants’ stress reactivity. Psychological Science, 17, 550-556.

11/5 INTELLIGENCE AND COGNITION

Text: Ch. 10: Intelligence

Ch. 23: Cognition (supplemental)

Articles: Kell, H. J., Lubinksi, D., & Benbow, C. P. (2013). Who rises to the top? Early indicators. Psychological Science, 24, 648-659.

(Presentation) Mayer, J. D., Panter, A. T., & Caruso, D. R. (2012). Does personal intelligence exist? Evidence from a new ability-based measure. Journal of Personality Assessment, 94, 124-140.

11/12 SECOND EXAMINATION

11/19 MOTIVES, GOALS, AND WORK LIFE

Text: Ch. 25: Motivation

Ch. 43: Work (supplemental)

Articles: Van Kleef, G. A., Homan, A. C., Beersma, B., & Knippenberg, D. (2010). On angry leaders and agreeable followers: How leaders’ emotions and followers’ personalities shape motivation and team performance. Psychological Science, 21, 1827-1834.

(Presentation) Taubman - Ben-Ari, O., & Yehiel, D. (2012). Driving styles and their associations with personality and motivation. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 45, 416-422.

11/26 SOCIAL SUPPORT AND SOCIAL PAIN

Text: Ch. 30: Social Support

Ch. 31: Social Pain (supplemental)

Articles: DeWall, C. N., MacDonald, G., Webster, G., et al., (2010). Acetaminophen reduces social pain: Behavioral and neural evidence. Psychological Science, 21, 931-937.

(Presentation) Kaplan, S. A., Bradley, J. C., & Ruscher, J. B. (2004). The inhibitory role of cynical disposition in the provision and receipt of social support: The case of the September 11th terrorist attacks. Personality and Individual Differences, 37, 1221-1232. Elizabeth

12/3 CULTURE

Text: Ch. 32: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Ch. 33: Culture (supplemental)

Articles: Campbell, W. K., Miller, J. D., & Buffardi, L. E. (2010). The United States and “the culture of narcissism”: An examination of perceptions of national character. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1, 222-229.

(Presentation) Borkenau, P., McCrae, R., & Terracciano, A. (2013). Do men vary more than women in personality? A study in 51 cultures. Journal of Research in Personality, 47, 135-144.

12/10 HEALTH AND CONCLUSIONS

Text: Ch. 13: Health

Articles: Sutin, A. R., Costa, P. T., Chan, W., Milaneschi, Y., Eaton, W. W., Zonderman, A. B., Ferrucci, L., & Terracciano, A. (2013). I know not to, but I can’t help it: Weight gain and changes in impulsivity-related personality traits. Psychological Science, 24, 1323-1328.

McAdams, D. P., & Pals, J. L. (2006). A new big five. American Psychologist 61, 204-217.

Epstein, S. (2007). Problems with McAdams and Pals's (2006) proposal of a framework for an integrative theory of personality. American Psychologist, 62, 59–60.

Maddi, S. R. (2007). Personality theories facilitate integrating the five principles and deducing hypotheses for testing. American Psychologist, 62, 58–59.

Wood, A., & Joseph, S. (2007). Grand theories of personality cannot be integrated. American Psychologist, 62, 57–58.

12/17 THIRD EXAMINATION (11-1:00)

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