This unit considers theories and contemporary research addressing both shared features of personality and unique constellations and attributes. We evaluate the adequacy of self-report measures (and their alternatives) in capturing personality. We look at what underpins personality from the start and shapes its development, as well as the joys and costs of the dynamic system of adaption it represents. Special emphasis is given to the way that early deficits in the experience of emotion and attachment to others can have knock-on consequences for the development of empathy and morality (illustrated by exploring personality styles like narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy). The ways... -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Doris McIlwain
Prerequisites: 6cp at 200 level including PSY234(P)
