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Peer reviewedCarlson, Janet F. – Teaching of Psychology, 1992
Describes a series of writing assignments in which entry level graduate students in a personality theory class wrote four short papers interpreting the personality of a character from a children's story or comic strip. Explains that each paper utilized a different theoretical orientation: psychoanalytic, dispositional, phenomenological, and…
Descriptors: Characterization, Comics (Publications), Fairy Tales, Graduate Students
