Summary, integration, and a look toward the future |  |
Learning ObjectivesUpon completing this chapter, you will 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. |
| 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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