Making the Connection: Strategies to Build Effective Personal Relationships (Collection) (78 page)

Klein, Joe

description of Barack Obama,
26-27

description of Bill Clinton,
7-9

Kluckhohn, Clyde,
139

L

life stories.
See
personal stories

loners, examples of,
33
,
36

Lorenz, Konrad,
82

M

Madoff, Bernard,
42

male brain development,
81

MAOA gene,
88-90

McAdams, Dan,
124
,
137

McCrae, Robert,
19
,
32

Meaney, Michael,
90

melanin, changes in,
60

mercurial style,
49

Millon, Theodore,
44

mirror neurons,
170

monoamine oxidase-A,
88

Monroe, Marilyn,
37

moral instincts, emotions and,
108-112

moralistic anger,
111

moral judgments in personality appraisals,
143-144

Morris, Lois
49

mouse research on hereditability of personality traits,
68-69

Mundy, Lisa,
146

Murray, Henry,
139

myelin,
81

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI),
154

N

Nader, Ralph,
39-40

Napoleon,
41

narcissism, invulnerable vs. vulnerable,
40-41
,
157

narcissistic personality pattern

as character flaw,
107

defined,
31

example of,
38-41
,
44

opinion of self and others,
51

natural selection,
58-61

environmental influences on,
72-75

of moral instincts,
108-112

nature versus nurture

childhood abuse and antisocial behavior traits,
87
,
90

epigenetic effect,
90-93

twins research,
61-66

negative moral emotions,
111

NEO-PI R,
19-22

neuroD2 gene,
58

neurons,
79-82

Neuroticism

advantages/disadvantages of,
74

association with compulsiveness,
45

Barack Obama example,
26

Bill Clinton example,
25

defined,
18

facets,
22

high Neuroticism patterns,
46-50

representative words,
16

neurotransmitters,
80

No Country for Old Men
(film),
43

Noitrix,
32-35

O

Obama, Barack

comparison with Bill Clinton,
26-27
,
140-147

personality appraisal of,
140-147

obsessive-compulsive disorder,
155

obsessive-compulsive personality pattern.
See
compulsive personality pattern

Odbert, H.S.,
10

Oldham, John,
49

Openness

advantages/disadvantages of,
74-75

Barack Obama example,
26

Bill Clinton example,
25

defined,
18

facets,
23

representative words,
16

opinions of self and others,
50-53

Origin of Species
(Darwin),
58-61

others, opinion of,
50-53

P

paranoid personality pattern

as character flaw,
107

defined,
31

example of,
38-41
,
44

opinion of self and others,
52

parenting and peer effects on personality,
164-166

perfectionism,
44-45

personality appraisal, conscious and unconscious,
1-2
,
151

personality appraisal, methodical approach to,
140-148

personality development, childhood predictors,
84-86

personality disorder,
32

personality patterns in personality appraisals,
141-143

troublesome personality patterns,
29-30
,
33
,
106

Agreeableness, low end of,
38-41
,
44

Conscientiousness, high end of,
44-45

Extraversion, high end of,
36-37

Extraversion, low end of,
33-36

Neuroticism, high end of,
46-50

opinions of self and others,
50-53

usefulness of,
53-54

personality styles (Oldham and Morris),
156

personality test, internet,
23

personality traits

Big Five domains

descriptions of,
15-19

facets of,
19-22

changes in and stabilization,
96
,
148-150

children’s brain development and,
84-86

defined,
9

gene variants and

environmental influences on selection,
72-75

mouse research on,
68-69

human research on,
69-72

personal stories,
123-125

changes in,
149

in personality appraisals,
144-147

Oprah Winfrey,
125-129

selective reconstruction in,
129-133

Steve Jobs,
133-137

Peterson, Christopher,
113

positive moral emotions,
110-111

promoters (DNA),
67

prototypical personality patterns,
156

psychopath, example of,
41-44

psychotherapy,
50
,
149

puberty, brain development during,
93

R

reciprocal altruism,
109

Reed College,
134

Roberts, Brent,
96

risk-taking, genes for,
57

Ross, Diana,
127

S

schizoid personality pattern

avoidant personality pattern versus,
46

as character flaw,
107

defined,
31

example of,
33
,
36

opinion of self and others,
53

schizotypal personality pattern

as character flaw,
107

defined,
31

example of,
33
,
36

opinion of self and others,
53

Sculley, John,
134-136

selective reconstruction in personal identity,
129-133

self, opinion of,
50-53

self-directedness, as major component of character,
114

self-improvement program, Franklin,
100-193

selfishness, overriding,
111

self-transcendence, as major component of character,
114

Seligman, Martin,
113

sense of identity.
See
identity

serotonin effect on personality,
69
,
72

SERT gene,
70-71

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
(Covey),
117

sexual expression and Extraversion,
36-37

Shawn, Allen,
47

Shawn, William,
47

Shweder, Richard,
115-117

Simpson, Nicole,
42

Simpson, O.J.,
42-43

skin color and sunlight,
60

SLC24A5 gene,
60

sociopath, example of,
41-44

songbirds, vocalizations of,
83

The Sopranos
,
81

speech development,
83

stabilization in brain development,
95-96

statistical analysis of personality trait correlations,
13
,
16

Steinem, Gloria,
37

stories.
See
personal stories

synapses,
79

synaptic signaling,
80

T

temperament,
85
,
103

temperaments of children,
84-86

temperance

analysis of Benjamin Franklin’s,
120

as core universal virtue,
113

as defined by Benjamin Franklin,
100-101

testosterone,
81

Thomas, Alexander,
84

Top Ten,
30-33

colloquial names,
31

dimensional vs. categorical view of,
32
,
156

thumbnail sketches,
30-31

relationship to personality disorders,
32

thymine,
66

transcendence

analysis of Benjamin Franklin’s,
120

as core universal virtue,
114

Trivers, Robert,
109

“The Trouble with Steve Jobs” (Elkind),
136

troublesome personality patterns,
30-33

low Agreeableness patterns,
38-44

low Extraversion patterns,
33-36