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Psychology of Personality and Individual Differences: Theory and Applications

Prof. Dilwar Hussain · IIT Guwahati

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Lectures

Module 1: Introduction to Personality Psychology

  1. Lec 1: Personality: Definition, concepts and overview Video
  2. Lec 2: Research methods in personality psychology Video

Module 2: Personality Assessment

  1. Lec 3: Personality Assessment-Introduction Video
  2. Lec 4: Methods of Personality Assessment Video

Module 3: Bio-psychological Perspective

  1. Lec 5: Genetics, Physiology and Personality Video
  2. Lec 6: Evolutionary psychology and personality Video

Module 4: The trait perspective

  1. Lec 7: The concept of traits and the person-situation debate Video
  2. Lec 8: Cattell’s Sixteen Personality Factor and Eysenck’s three super traits Video
  3. Lec 9: The five factor model and beyond Video

Module 5: Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalytic perspective

  1. Lec 10: Psychoanalysis 1 Video
  2. Lec 11: Psychoanalysis 2 Video

Module 6: Behaviorism and learning perspective

  1. "Lec 12: Behaviorism and Personality 1: Classical conditioning and personality" Video
  2. "Lec 13: Behaviorism and personality 2: Operant conditioning and personality" Video

Module 7: Humanistic perspectives

  1. "Lec 14: Humanistic psychology, Maslow and Personality" Video
  2. Lec 15: Rogers theory of Personality Video

Module 8: Cognitive and Social-Cognitive Perspective

  1. Lec 16: Kelly’s personal construct theory Video
  2. Lec 17: Bandura’s social-cognitive theory Video
  3. "Lec 18: Mini cognitive theories of personality" Video

Module 9: Social and cultural aspects to personality

  1. Lec 19: Gender and personality Video
  2. Lec 20: Culture and personality Video

Module 10: Personality Development and Change

  1. Lec 21: Stability and change of personality Video
  2. Lec 22: Personality development 1: Erickson’s Psychosocial Stages of Personality Development Video
  3. Lec 23: Personality development 2: "Attachment and personality development" Video

Module 11: Developing Positive Personality Traits

  1. Lec 24: Positive personality trait: Character strengths Video
  2. Lec 25: Positive personality trait: Resilient Personality Video
  3. Lec 26: Positive personality trait: Empathy Video
  4. Lec 27: Positive personality trait: Kindness Video

Module 12: Specific applications of personality psychology

  1. Lec 28: Personality, Stress, and physical health Video
  2. Lec 29: Personality and mental health Video
  3. Lec 30: Personality, career and workplace Video
  4. Lec 31: Personality and interpersonal relationships Video

Live Session

  1. Live Session 18-02-2025 Video
  2. Live Session 11-03-2025 Video
  3. Live Session 08-04-2025 Video

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Guwahati
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teacher
Prof. Dilwar Hussain
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
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