Steven Reiss

Sex? Social standing? Social justice? With this breakthrough study of the motivational forces behind human behavior, and grounded in the most up-to-date psychological research available, Dr. Steven Reiss explains the 16 desires and values that shape our behavior-and shows how the ways we prioritize them determines our personality. "Well-explained in lay readers' terms." ( Library Journal ) "An exciting new way to think about ourselves, an authoritative, research-based understanding of why we do the things we do." (Ellen Langer, Ph.D., author of Mindfulness) "Offers valuable insight into such matters as why some interpersonal relationships are enduringly satisfying and others are not." (Professor Richard J. McNally, Harvard University) "Reiss' system can improve our working relationships and enhance our professional lives." (Ruth Luckasson, J.D., Regents' Professor and Professor of Special Education, University of New Mexico)

16 Basic Desires that Motivate Our Actions Define Our Persona

Who Am I?

Many Psychologists regard personality and mental illness as closely related. The shadow of Freudian analysis looms over modern psychopathology, driving many psychologists to try to understand their clients' personal troubles and personalities using constructs developed to study mental illness. They believe that dark, unconscious mental forces that originated in childhood cause personality traits, personal troubles, and mental illnesses. Steven Reiss thinks problems are a normal part of life. In The Normal Personality, Reiss argues that human beings are naturally intolerant of people who express values significantly different from their own. Because of this intolerance, psychologists and psychiatrists sometimes confuse individuality with abnormality and thus over-diagnose disorders. Reiss shows how normal motives, not anxiety or traumatic childhood experiences, underlie many personality and relationship problems, such as divorce, infidelity, combativeness, workaholism, loneliness, authoritarianism, weak leadership styles, perfectionism, underachievement, arrogance, extravagance, stuffed shirt-ism, disloyalty, disorganization, and overanxiety. Based on a series of scientific studies, this book advances an original scientific theory of psychological needs, values, and personality traits. Reiss shows how different points on motivational arc produce different personality traits and values. He also shows how knowledge of psychological needs and values can be applied in counseling individuals and couples. The author describes new, powerful methods of assessing and predicting motivated behavior in natural environments including corporations, schools, and relationships.

A New Way of Thinking about People

The Normal Personality

mit dem Reiss-Profile die 16 Lebensmotive erkennen und nutzen

Wer bin ich und was will ich wirklich?

Bruce D. Shriver

Gul Agha

David Beech

Peter Wegner

Daniel G Bobrow

Ole-Johan Dahl

Joseph A Goguen

Brent Hailpern

Kenneth M Kahn

Ole Lehrmann Madsen

David Maier

Andrea Skarra

Harold L Ossher

Herbert Schwetman

Reid Smith

Alan Snyder

Stanley Zdonik

Once a radical notion, object-oriented programming is one of today's most active research areas. It is especially well suited to the design of very large software projects involving many programmers all working on the same project. The original contributions in this book will provide researchers and students in programming languages, databases, and programming semantics with the most complete survey of the field available. Broad in scope and deep in its examination of substantive issues, the book focuses on the major topics of object-oriented languages, models of computation, mathematical models, object-oriented databases, and object-oriented environments.The object-oriented languages include Beta, the Scandinavian successor to Simula (a chapter by Bent Kristensen, whose group has had the longest experience with object-oriented programming, reveals how that experience has shaped the group's vision today); CommonObjects, a Lisp-based language with abstraction; Actors, a low-level language for concurrent modularity; and Vulcan, a Prolog-based concurrent object-oriented language.New computational models of inheritance, composite objects, block-structure layered systems, and classification are covered, and theoretical papers on functional object-oriented languages and object-oriented specification are included in the section on mathematical models.The three chapters on object-oriented databases (including David Maier's "Development and Implementation of an Object-Oriented Database Management System," which spans the programming and database worlds by integrating procedural and representational capability and the requirements of multi-user persistent storage) and the two chapters on object-oriented environments provide a representative sample of good research in these two important areas.Bruce Shriver is a researcher at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Peter Wegner is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Brown University. Research Directions in Object-Oriented Programming is included in the Computer Systems series, edited by Herb Schwetman.

Research Directions in Object-oriented Programming

What do we want? What makes us tick? From acceptance to vengeance to curiosity, this book explains the 16 basic and universal desires that shape our behavior—and shows how the ways we prioritize them determines our personalities. Grounded in up-to-date psychological research, this book can help parents comprehend their children’s needs and behavior couples understand each other better employers motivate their employees employees become more effective in their work YOU achieve greater satisfaction and happiness in life

16 Basic Desires that Motivate Our Actions Define Our Personalities

Who am I?

Die meisten Menschen sind sich der eigenen Motive nicht bewusst und bleiben daher in Beruf und Alltag hinter ihren eigentlichen Wünschen zurück. Und viele verstehen aber auch die Triebfedern ihrer Mitmenschen nicht. Die Folgen sind kommunikative Missverständnisse und Unstimmigkeiten, aber auch Schwierigkeiten, die anderen für die Ziele des Unternehmens zu begeistern. Das einzigartige Reiss-Profile ermöglicht es anhand von 16 grundlegenden Werten, individuelle und aussagekräftige Motivationsprofile zu erstellen, mit denen eine Gesamtpersönlichkeit abgebildet werden kann. Firmen wie die Metro Group AG, REWE AG, Douglas Holding u.a. schwören ebenso auf diese Methode wie die deutsche Handball-Nationalmannschaft – also das optimale Werkzeug für Personaler und alle, der mehr über sich und andere erfahren möchte.

Mit dem Reiss-Profile die 16 Lebensmotive erkennen und nutzen

Was ist Ihnen wichtig, was treibt Sie an? Was macht Sie glücklich? Wo kollidieren Wertvorstellungen in Ihnen oder in Ihrem Verhältnis zu anderen? – Das Verständnis der 16 Lebensmotive kann Sie in diesen Fragen weiterbringen. In seinem aktuellsten Buch (USA 2008) zeigt Steven Reiss, wie sich die Ausprägung bestimmter Lebensmotive auf die Persönlichkeit und auf Beziehungen auswirkt und wie man diese Kenntnisse berufl ich und privat, in der Beratung, bei Jugendlichen, in Paarbeziehungen und in der alltäglichen Interaktion nutzen kann., Was ist Ihnen wichtig, was treibt Sie an? Was macht Sie glücklich? Wo kollidieren Wertvorstellungen in Ihnen oder in Ihrem Verhältnis zu anderen? – Das Verständnis der 16 Lebensmotive kann Sie in diesen Fragen weiterbringen. In seinem aktuellsten Buch (USA 2008) zeigt Steven Reiss, wie sich die Ausprägung bestimmter Lebensmotive auf die Persönlichkeit und auf Beziehungen auswirkt und wie man diese Kenntnisse berufl ich und privat, in der Beratung, bei Jugendlichen, in Paarbeziehungen und in der alltäglichen Interaktion nutzen kann.

die 16 Lebensmotive ; welche Werte und Bedürfnisse unserem Verhalten zugrunde liegen

Das Reiss Profile

This ground-breaking work will change the way we understand religion. Period. Previous scholars such as Freud, James, Durkheim, and Maslow did not successfully identify the essence of religion as fear of death, mysticism, sacredness, communal bonding, magic, or peak experiences because religion has no single essence. Religion is about the values motivated by the sixteen basic desires of human nature. This is the first comprehensive theory of the psychology of religion that can be scientifically verified. Reiss proposes a peer-reviewed, original theory of mysticism, asceticism, spiritual personality, and hundreds of religious beliefs and practices. Written for serious readers and anyone interested in psychology and religion (especially their own), this eminently readable book will revolutionize the psychology of religious experience by exploring the motivations and characteristics of the individual in their religious life.

The New Psychology of Religious Experiences

The 16 Strivings for God

Steven Reiss, PhD

The author of Who Am I? shows how human beings are naturally intolerant of people who express values significantly different from their own, in a study that describes new, powerful methods of assessing and predicting motivational behavior in natural environments. 15,000 first printing.

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