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Eros, Ludus, Storge, Pragma, Mania, and Agape -- sociologist John Alan Lee's six love styles, how the three primary and three secondary types combine, and how the theory is measured.
Personality βHigh self-monitors versus low self-monitors: psychologist Mark Snyder's theory of how much people adjust their behavior to fit social situations, with the traits and trade-offs of each style.
Personality βFrom amotivation to fully intrinsic motivation, a breakdown of Self-Determination Theory's six-stage motivation continuum and the three basic psychological needs behind it, developed by psychologists Edward Deci and Richard Ryan.
Personality βPsychologist David McClelland's theory that people are driven by three learned social needs -- achievement, power, and affiliation -- including how he measured them and how the theory is applied in workplace and leadership settings.
Personality βLeon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance, the classic one-dollar-versus-twenty-dollar experiment, effort justification, induced compliance, post-decision dissonance, and the three ways people resolve the discomfort.
Personality βPsychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's theory of flow -- the challenge-skill balance, clear goals and feedback, loss of self-consciousness, time distortion, and autotelic experience that define being fully absorbed in an activity.
Personality βA guide to psychologist Marvin Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS) and its four factors -- thrill and adventure seeking, experience seeking, disinhibition, and boredom susceptibility -- plus how it differs from Type T personality.
Personality βA guide to psychologist James Marcia's identity status theory -- diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, and achievement -- and how exploration and commitment combine to shape identity development.
Personality βA guide to psychologist E. Tory Higgins's regulatory focus theory -- the difference between promotion focus (pursuing gains) and prevention focus (avoiding losses), and how the two combine in the idea of 'regulatory fit.'
Personality βA guide to psychologist Clayton Alderfer's ERG theory -- existence, relatedness, and growth needs -- plus the frustration-regression and satisfaction-progression principles that set it apart from Maslow's hierarchy.
Personality βA guide to psychologist Shalom Schwartz's theory of basic human values -- self-direction, stimulation, hedonism, achievement, power, security, conformity, tradition, benevolence, and universalism -- and the two axes that organize them.
Personality βPsychologist Philip Zimbardo's Time Perspective Theory explains how people orient toward past, present, or future β past-negative, past-positive, present-hedonistic, present-fatalistic, future, and the ideal of a balanced time perspective.
Personality βPsychologist Robert Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence argues that real-world success depends on three distinct abilities β analytical, creative, and practical intelligence β not just the kind measured by IQ tests.
Personality βPsychologist Leon Festinger's Social Comparison Theory explains why people judge themselves against others β upward and downward comparison, lateral comparison, the social media effect, and how to compare in healthier ways.
Personality βNeuroscientist Stephen Porges's Polyvagal Theory explains how the autonomic nervous system shifts between three hierarchical states β safety, fight-or-flight, and shutdown β plus neuroception, the fawn response, and the window of tolerance.
Personality βThe halo effect is the cognitive bias where one standout trait β often looks or a first impression β skews how every other trait is judged. Its origin, real-world examples in appearance and branding, the opposite horn effect, and how to counteract it.
Personality βThe Zeigarnik effect explains why interrupted or unfinished tasks are remembered better and keep resurfacing in your thoughts than completed ones β its origin, everyday and marketing examples, and how it applies to studying.
Personality βPsychologist Sandra Bem's Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) measures masculinity and femininity as two independent dimensions rather than opposite ends of one scale, producing four types: masculine, feminine, androgynous, and undifferentiated.
Personality βThe Thinker, Persister, Harmonizer, Imaginer, Rebel, and Promoter types from Taibi Kahler's Process Communication Model, and why different people need to be communicated with differently.
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