Annie Murphy Paul

Broschiertes Buch

The Cult of Personality Testing

How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves

Beschreibung

The first book to thoroughly explore the phenomenon of personality testing.

Autor

Annie Murphy Paul is a magazine journalist and book author who writes about the biological and social sciences. Born in Philadelphia, she graduated from Yale University and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. A former senior editor at Psychology Today magazine, she was awarded the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, Slate, Discover, Health, O: The Oprah Magazine, and many other publications. She is the author of Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives and The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Free Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9780743280723
• ISBN-10: 0743280725
• Artikelnr.: 21485070