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After studying Chapter 20, you should be able to

discuss the current status of the field of personality psychology;

discuss the contention that comprehensive understanding of the whole of personality requires the study and subsequent integration of different domains of knowledge about personality;

review some of the key findings and theories with each of the six domains of knowledge about personality;

identify several likely future directions for research and theory in each of the six domains of knowledge about personality;

discuss the contention that the six domains of knowledge should be viewed as complementary, not competing or conflicting; and, finally,

discuss the contention that some of the most interesting work in personality psychology in the future will occur at the boundaries of the six domains of knowledge.







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