Perspectives on Personality, 8th Edition

Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier met in graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin, where they both earned doctoral degrees in personality psychology. After graduation, they took positions at the University of Miami and Carnegie-Mellon University, respectively, where they have remained throughout their careers. They’ve collaborated for four decades in work that spans personality, social, motivational, clinical, and health psychology.

• In 1998, they received awards for Outstanding Scientific Contribution (Senior Level) from the Division of Health Psychology of the American Psychological Association.
• In 2007, they received the Donald T. Campbell Award for Distinguished Contributions to Social Psychology from APA’s Division of Personality and Social Psychology.
• In 2011, the first author received the Jack Block Award for Distinguished Contributions to Personality Psychology from APA’s Division of Personality and Social Psychology.
• In 2012, the authors received the Distinguished Lifetime Career Award from the International Society for Self and Identity.
• Mike was the 2003-2004 President of APA’s Division of Health Psychology and served for over 10 years as Department Head at CMU.

Along with seven editions of Perspectives on Personality, the authors have published books on self-regulation and more than 400 articles and chapters.