Personality Dynamics ─ Meaning Construction, The Social World, and the Embodied Mind

This collection of individually authored chapters brings together the latest research on personality and social psychology in the context of the embodied nature of mind. The chapters are tied together by three themes: the construction of meaning, personality dynamics in a social world, and embedded personality dynamics. Each chapter is well-structured, most with an introduction or a conclusion. They explore knowledge and appraisal, dialogical self-theory, transference as a meaning-making mechanism, perceived isolation, need and ability in the process of knowledge formation, social anxiety and performance, human smiles and processing similarities to cultural differences, and finding patterns in the stream of consciousness. The contributors, some working individually and some in collaboration on a chapter, are mostly professors of psychology at universities from Europe and the US. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Daniel Cervone, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Ma?gorzata Fajkowska, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities and Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Michael W. Eysenck, Roehampton University, Whitelands College, London, United Kingdom Tomasz Maruszewski, Polish Academy of Sciences and Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland