The Resource The cult of personality : how personality tests are leading us to miseducate our children, mismanage our companies, and misunderstand ourselves, Annie Murphy Paul
The cult of personality : how personality tests are leading us to miseducate our children, mismanage our companies, and misunderstand ourselves, Annie Murphy Paul
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The item The cult of personality : how personality tests are leading us to miseducate our children, mismanage our companies, and misunderstand ourselves, Annie Murphy Paul represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
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- Summary
- This book tells the surprising and disturbing story of the tests that claim to capture human nature. It goes behind the scenes to discover how personality tests are used in America's companies, its courts, its schools, and in organizations from churches to community centers to dating services. It exposes the serious flaws of personality tests, explaining why their results are often invalid, unreliable, and unfair
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xv, 302 pages
- Contents
-
- Introduction
- 1. A most typical American
- 2. Rorschach's dream
- 3. Minnesota normals
- 4. Deep diving
- 5. First love
- 6.0 Child's play
- 7.0 The stranger
- 8.0 Uncharted waters
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the author
- Isbn
- 9780743243568
- Label
- The cult of personality : how personality tests are leading us to miseducate our children, mismanage our companies, and misunderstand ourselves
- Title
- The cult of personality
- Title remainder
- how personality tests are leading us to miseducate our children, mismanage our companies, and misunderstand ourselves
- Statement of responsibility
- Annie Murphy Paul
- Subject
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- Employees -- Psychological testing -- United States
- Kinderen
- Personality Tests -- Child -- United States
- Personality Tests -- United States
- Personality tests
- Personality tests -- United States
- Employees -- Psychological testing
- Personality tests for children -- United States
- Persoonlijkheidstests
- Psychology, Industrial -- United States
- United States
- Werknemers
- Personality tests for children
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This book tells the surprising and disturbing story of the tests that claim to capture human nature. It goes behind the scenes to discover how personality tests are used in America's companies, its courts, its schools, and in organizations from churches to community centers to dating services. It exposes the serious flaws of personality tests, explaining why their results are often invalid, unreliable, and unfair
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Paul, Annie Murphy
- Dewey number
- 155.2/8
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BF698.5
- LC item number
- .P38 2004
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
- BF 698.5 P324 2004
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Personality tests
- Personality tests for children
- Employees
- Employees
- Personality tests
- Personality tests for children
- United States
- Persoonlijkheidstests
- Kinderen
- Werknemers
- Personality Tests
- Personality Tests
- Psychology, Industrial
- Label
- The cult of personality : how personality tests are leading us to miseducate our children, mismanage our companies, and misunderstand ourselves, Annie Murphy Paul
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-291) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. A most typical American -- 2. Rorschach's dream -- 3. Minnesota normals -- 4. Deep diving -- 5. First love -- 6.0 Child's play -- 7.0 The stranger -- 8.0 Uncharted waters -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the author
- Control code
- ocm55044778
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xv, 302 pages
- Isbn
- 9780743243568
- Lccn
- 2004047186
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o55044778
- (OCoLC)55044778
- Label
- The cult of personality : how personality tests are leading us to miseducate our children, mismanage our companies, and misunderstand ourselves, Annie Murphy Paul
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-291) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. A most typical American -- 2. Rorschach's dream -- 3. Minnesota normals -- 4. Deep diving -- 5. First love -- 6.0 Child's play -- 7.0 The stranger -- 8.0 Uncharted waters -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the author
- Control code
- ocm55044778
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xv, 302 pages
- Isbn
- 9780743243568
- Lccn
- 2004047186
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o55044778
- (OCoLC)55044778
Subject
- Employees -- Psychological testing -- United States
- Kinderen
- Personality Tests -- Child -- United States
- Personality Tests -- United States
- Personality tests
- Personality tests -- United States
- Employees -- Psychological testing
- Personality tests for children -- United States
- Persoonlijkheidstests
- Psychology, Industrial -- United States
- United States
- Werknemers
- Personality tests for children
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