TY - BOOK AU - Donnellan,M.Brent AU - Lucas,Richard Eric TI - Great myths of personality T2 - Great myths of psychology SN - 9781118521397 (cloth) PY - 2021/// CY - Hoboken, Nueva Jersey PB - John Wiley & Sons, Inc. KW - Personalidad KW - Psicología KW - Mitos KW - Teorías de la personalidad KW - Rasgos KW - Diferencias N1 - Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índices; Situational factors overwhelm personality when predicting behavior -- Personality measures do not predict consequential outcomes (like health, wealth, and divorce) well enough to be useful -- There is a single gene for a single personality trait -- Evolutionary perspectives are not relevant for personality -- People come in discrete personality types -- Personality is too complicated to be measured -- Personality measures can be faked so they are not valid -- The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the best approach for assessing personality -- Projective tests are the best approach for measuring personality -- Unstructured interviews are the best approach for measuring personality -- Most personality quizzes in magazines and on websites provide accurate information about your personality -- Personality traits do not have much consistency across the life span -- Personality is completely stable (or set like plaster) after age 30 -- Traumatic life events dramatically reshape personality -- Adolescence is the most significant period of personality development -- Birth order is an important influence on personality -- Parenting practices are the major source of personality differences -- Happiness is completely determined by situational factors -- Happiness is unrelated to major life events -- Happiness results primarily from person-environment fit -- There is a 3-to-1 positivity- negativity ratio for flourishing -- Personality trait similarity matters for romantic relationships -- Spouses are especially similar in terms of personality traits or spouses have complementary personality traits -- High self-esteem and narcissism are the same attribute -- Perceptions of national character reflect "real" group differences -- Personality is radically different from culture to culture -- Men are from Mars, women are from Venus (men and women have dramatically different personalities) -- Clinicians can't treat personality disorders ER -