A Physiological Basis for Personality Traits: A New Theory of Personality 0398030782, 9780398030780
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BASIS FOR NEW THEORY OF PERSONALITY DAVID LESTER, Ph.D. Richard Stockton State College Pomona, New Jersey
CHARLES C THOMAS • PUBLISHER • SPRINGFIELD • ILLINOIS
A PHYSIOLOGICAL BASIS FOR PERSONALITY TRAITS This book proposes a new theory of personality that integrates many hitherto disparate theories and dimensions of personality. The theory takes as its basic concept the balance in the auto nomic nervous system and relates this variable to such personality dimensions as: reducing-augmenting, extraversion-introversion, repressing-sensitizing, field dependence-independ ence, and thrill seeking. The theory provides a physiologi cal basis for Sheldon’s theory of personality, and it incorporates previously proposed theories of psychopathy and schizophrenia. In addition, the theory is applied to: alcoholism, neuroses, manic-depressive psychoses, psychosomatic disorders, smoking and lung cancer, suicide and homicide, and voodoo death. Finally, the theory is related to recent hypotheses about the causes of sex differences in cog nitive abilities. (continued on back flap)
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