{"product_id":"the-importance-of-psychological-traits-a-cross-cultural-study-the-springer-series-in-social-clinical-psychology-0306458896","title":"The Importance of Psychological Traits: A Cross-Cultural Study (The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0306458896\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Williams, John E.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll traits were not created equal. -WORCHEL AND COOPER (1983, p. 180) This book reports the findings from extensive cross-cultural studies of the relative importance ofdifferent psychological traits in 20 countries and the relative favorability of these traits in a subset of 10 countries. While the work is devoted primarily to professionals and advanced students in the social sciences, the relatively nontechnical style - ployed should make the book comprehensible to anyone with a general grasp of the concepts and strategies ofempirical behavioral science. The project grew out of discussions between the first author and third author while the latter was a graduate student at Wake Forest University, U.S.A., in 1990. The third author, a native of Chile, was studying person-descriptive adjectives composing the stereotypes - sociatedwiththe Chilean aboriginal minority knownas Mapuche (Saiz \u0026amp;Williams, 1992). Asweexaminedthe adjectives usedinthisstudy, it was clear that they differed in favorability and also on another dim- sionwhichwe latertermed \"psychologicalimportance,\" i.e., the degree to which adjectives reflected more \"central,\" as opposed to more \"- ripheral,\"personality characteristics. More important descriptors were those which seemed more informative or diagnostic ofwhat a person \"wasreally like\"and, hence, might be ofgreater significance in und- standing and predicting an individual's behavior.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51735565304096,"sku":"NEW0306458896","price":123.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61asEPE0zNL.jpg?v=1779488320","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-importance-of-psychological-traits-a-cross-cultural-study-the-springer-series-in-social-clinical-psychology-0306458896","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}