Making Sense of People Detecting and Understanding Personality Differences |
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| Author:
| Barondes, Samuel |
| ISBN: | 978-0-13-421438-2 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2015 |
| Publisher: | Pearson Higher Education & Professional Group
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | AUD $28.95 |
Book Description:
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What really bothers you about your boss--or your daughter's boyfriend? Why are you so attracted to the person you're dating? Can you rely on your intuition about people? This book will help you find out.
Drawing on extensive research, renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist Samuel Barondes gives you powerful tools for understanding what people are really like and how they got that way.
Now improved with easy, step-by-step "practical summaries," these tools will...
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What really bothers you about your boss--or your daughter's boyfriend? Why are you so attracted to the person you're dating? Can you rely on your intuition about people? This book will help you find out.
Drawing on extensive research, renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist Samuel Barondes gives you powerful tools for understanding what people are really like and how they got that way.
Now improved with easy, step-by-step "practical summaries," these tools will help you quickly assess anyone's tendencies, patterns, character, and sense of identity. You'll learn how to combine these into a unified picture of who that person is. With these insights, you can choose more satisfying relationships, recognise telltale signs of dysfunction and danger, and savour the complexity and uniqueness of everyone you meet.
A quick, easy system for understanding anyone!
- Supplement your intuition
- Identify character strengths and weaknesses
- Make better decisions about whom to seek out and whom to avoid
- Find out how all personalities are shaped by two great chance events: the set of genes we happen to be born with, and the world we happen to grow up in
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