Managing Personality

Managing Personality is grounded in the conviction that scientific understanding of personality requires measurement in order to describe phenomena in an objective, systematic fashion and to test theories

Donald W. Fiske

One: What Do We Measure?; Introduction; One: The Roots of Personality Measurement; Two: Orientations and Themes; Three: Personality, Process, and Systematic Observations; Four: The Observational Data of Personology; Five: The Modes of Measuring Personality; Six: The Specification of Constructs; Two: Measuring; Introduction; Seven: Some Fundamentals of Measurement; Eight: Indices: Their Models and Their Evaluation; Nine: Behaving and Changing; Ten: A Human Being Takes a Test; Eleven: The Specificity of Behaviors and of Measurements; Twelve: Measuring a Personality Construct Today; Thirteen: Prospects and Issues