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Fitch, Trey; Marshall, Jennifer – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this study was to apply psychobiography to the lives of Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice. Psychobiography can be applied as a method of teaching personality theory and it can also be used as a research method. Most political personas are crafted through 20 second sound bites from the radio, Internet, and television. However, a…
Descriptors: Personality, Personality Theories, Current Events, Research Methodology
Samuel, William; McNall, Sidne J. – 1981
Self-evaluation is thought to play a major role in personality and motivation. Preliminary experience with success or failure, levels of aspiration, attributions for performance, and locus of control may all be interrelated factors in human motivation. After receiving success, failure, or no feedback on a concept formation task, subjects (N=90)…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Attribution Theory, Expectation, Experience