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The intertwined roles of genes, nurture, and education in personality development.    How to recognize troublesome personality patterns such as narcissism, sociopathy, and paranoia.    How much a child's behavior predicts their adult personality, and how personality stabilizes in young adulthood.    How to assess integrity, fairness, wisdom, and other traits related to morality.    What genetic testing may (or may not) teach us about personality in the future.    General strategies for getting along with people, with specific tactics for special circumstances.        Kirkus Reviews  A succinct look at personality psychology.    As a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at the University of California, Barondes (Molecules and Mental Illness, 2007, etc.) has spent years studying human behavior, and this book reflects his systematic, scientific approach for personality assessment. The average person isn't likely to have time to research a difficult boss or potential love interest, but the author supplements intuition with a useful cornerstone for gauging human behavior: a table of the \"Big Five\" personality traits, among them Extraversion vs. Introversion and Agreeableness vs. Antagonism. To learn how to apply the Big Five, Barondes supplies a link for a professional online personality test, in addition to a basic introduction of troubling personality patterns–e.g., narcissism and compulsiveness. While genetics may play a heavy hand in influencing personality, Barondes writes, it's awareness of a person's background, character and life story that is paramount in unearthing reasons for adult behavior. Readers might like to see the author weave more everyday examples into the text–his exercise in fostering compassion by imagining an adult as a 10-year-old child is a gem–but there is plenty here to ponder.    Those looking for traditional \"self-help\" advice won't find it here, but this book clearly lays the groundwork for deeper human interaction and better life relationships.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49594673332497,"sku":"GOR005829184","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50479781282065,"sku":"CIN0132172607G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50493165371665,"sku":"CIN0132172607VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0132172607.jpg?v=1750843719"},{"product_id":"making-sense-of-people-book-samuel-barondes-9780134215006","title":"Making Sense of People","description":"A NEW, MORE PRACTICAL EDITION OF THE POPULAR SCIENTIFIC GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING OTHER PEOPLE       What really bothers you about your boss—or your daughter’s boyfriend? Why are you so attracted to the person you’re dating? Can you rely on your intuition about people? This book will help you find out.        Drawing on extensive research, renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist Samuel Barondes gives you powerful tools for understanding what people are really like and how they got that way.       Now improved with easy, step-by-step “practical summaries,” these tools will help you quickly assess anyone’s tendencies, patterns, character, and sense of identity. You’ll learn how to combine these into a unified picture of who that person is. With these insights, you can choose more satisfying relationships, recognize telltale signs of dysfunction and danger, and savor the complexity and uniqueness of everyone you meet.       A quick, easy system for understanding anyone!      Supplement your intuition    Identify character strengths and weaknesses    Make better decisions about whom to seek out and whom to avoid    Find out how all personalities are shaped by two great chance events: the set of genes we happen to be born with, and the world we happen to grow up in","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50663518404881,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50663519060241,"sku":"CIN0134215001VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0134215001.jpg?v=1751132788"},{"product_id":"neuronal-recognition-book-samuel-barondes-9781468422078","title":"Neuronal Recognition","description":"An outstanding characteristic of the nervous system is that neurons make selective functional contacts. Each neuron behaves as if it recog nizes the neurons with which it associates and rejects associations with others. The specific interneuronal relationships that result define the innate neuronal circuits that determine the functioning of this system. The purpose of this volume is to present some approaches to the problem of neuronal recognition. The volume has been somewhat arbitrarily divided into three sections. In the first section, the overrid ing theme is the degree of specificity of neuronal recognition. How specific is specific? Is the specificity so precise that the neurites of one neuron will only make synaptic contact with a unique target neuron? If less precise, within what range? Are the rules for specification that are operative in the embryo still operative at the same level of precision when connections regenerate in the mature organism? Are they still operative in dissociated tissue grown in culture? 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