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Cari koleksi dengan cepat sesuai kebutuhan Anda.This book is about personal names, something of abiding interest to specialists and lay readers alike. Over a million people have checked the American Name Society website since 1996, for instance. Many philosophers and linguists suggest that names are 'just' labels, but parents internationally are determined to get their children's names 'right'. Personal names may be given, lost, traded, stol…
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This volume provides an extensive review of the literature on personality and intelligence research (in the past 100 years), looking not only at the independent theoretical and empirical developments of both constructs, but also their interactions?namely, the psychometric interface between personality traits and cognitive ability measures. Nevertheless, it is argued that this interface (which h…
This book had its inception in the seminar I taught on ?Psychological Studies of Arab-Muslim Societies? at Harvard?s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and I thank Professors Susan Miller, Robert LeVine, Byron Good, and Mary-Jo Good there for their support. Research for the book was supported by a sabbatical leave from Kalamazoo College in the 2002?2003 academic year. A Visiting Scholar appoint…
Personality is that which makes us what we are and that which makes us different from others. People who are especially different, for example, are said to have ?personality? or be ?quite a character.? Other people have ?no personality at all.? Depending on how someone affects us, he or she may be viewed as having a ?good personality? or a ?bad personality.? In the past several decades, the stu…