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  2. Biography - Wikipedia

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    Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae , a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of their life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality. Biographical works are usually non-fiction, but fiction can also be used to portray a person's life. One in-depth form ...

  3. Dan P. McAdams - Wikipedia

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    Dispositional traits, a person's general tendencies. For example, the Big Five personality traits lists: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism. Characteristic adaptations, a person's desires, beliefs, concerns, and coping mechanisms. Life stories, the stories that give a life a sense of unity, meaning, and purpose.

  4. List of autobiographies by Indians - Wikipedia

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    The Test of My Life: 2013: M. Karunanidhi: Nejukku Needhi 2013 6 Volumes. 3926 Pages. Covering period from 1924 to 2006 K. Natwar Singh: One Life Is Not Enough: 2014: Sachin Tendulkar: Playing It My Way: 2014: Temsula Ao: Once Upon a Life: Burnt Curry and Bloody Rags: A Memoir: 2014: Sharad Pawar: On my Terms: From the Grassroots to the ...

  5. Psychobiography - Wikipedia

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    One of the first great examples of this field's utility was Dr. Henry Murray's report on the analysis of Adolf Hitler's personality during the end of World War II. Forced to psychoanalyze from a distance, Dr. Murray used multiple sources, including Hitler's genealogy, Hitler's own writings, and biographies of Hitler, so that the Allied forces ...

  6. Portal:Biography - Wikipedia

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    Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae , a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of their life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality. Biographical works are usually non-fiction, but fiction can also be used to portray a person's life. One in-depth form ...

  7. Gordon Allport - Wikipedia

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    Gordon Willard Allport (November 11, 1897 – October 9, 1967) was an American psychologist.Allport was one of the first psychologists to focus on the study of the personality, and is often referred to as one of the founding figures of personality psychology. [1]

  8. Narrative identity - Wikipedia

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    Narrative themes can also depend on the event type. Different event types have varying levels of tension, and researchers posit that tension level is associated with narrative construct scores. For example, a mortality (or life-threatening) event would have a higher tension level than a leisure (i.e. vacation) event.

  9. Wikipedia : Biographies of living persons

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    Example: A politician is alleged to have had an affair. It is denied, but multiple major newspapers publish the allegations, and there is a public scandal. The allegation belongs in the biography, citing those sources. It should state only that the politician was alleged to have had the affair, not that the affair actually occurred.