Personality Psychology: Domains Of Knowledge About Human Nature

Updated inclusive language. Language updates have been made to the Third Canadian Edition to improve gender neutrality, remove potentially stigmatizing language, and to ensure that examples are relevant.

Indigenous content integrated throughout. More Indigenous content has been integrated throughout the Third Canadian edition. One example includes an updated discussion of cultural identity in Indigenous peoples in Canada (Chapter 17).

Relevant examples for Canadians. The Third Canadian edition has added more cross-cultural references, diverse examples, and case studies, and cites fascinating research on the COVID-19 pandemic.

Current statistics and research. Larsen has been thoroughly updated to include the latest Canadian research and statistics. For example, research on COVID-19 and life satisfaction in Canada is included in Chapter 13.

Learning Objectives. Learning objectives have been added to the beginning of each chapter to help guide students through the content.

New Connect Experience. Significant improvements to the instructor workflows in Connect have been made, including the addition of new features designed to make managing your course even easier. New features include the ability to add co-instructors to a section, a new Assignments tab, a redesigned section dashboard, optimizations for mobile use, and improved accessibility.

Domains of Knowledge Framework. Personality Psychology continues to adopt a framework of six important domains of knowledge about personality functioning.These six domains are: the dispositional domain, the biological domain, the intrapsychic domain, the cognitive-experiential domain, the social and cultural domain and the adjustment domain.

Inclusive Language. Care has been taken to ensure inclusive language is used throughout the resource to improve gender neutrality, to remove potentially stigmatizing language, and to ensure that examples are relevant within a modern context.

Coverage of issues that are relevant to Canadians. Larsen follows a contemporary approach, offering salient cross-cultural references, diverse examples and case studies with special attention paid to current social issues that are important to Canadians.

Highlight on Canadian Research. To showcase the latest Canadian contributions to personality research, each chapter includes a Highlight on Canadian Research feature box.