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Acknowledgments

Making Sense of People
grew out of my lifelong curiosity about personality differences. Writing this book gave me the opportunity to organize my thoughts and find out what’s new in the field.

In surveying the vast literature on personality, I benefited greatly from the writings of many scholars, a few of whom I’d like to single out. On personality traits: Paul Costa, Lewis Goldberg, Robert McCrae, and Walter Mischel. On troublesome personality patterns: Aaron T. Beck, Theodore Millon, John Livesley, John Oldham, and Thomas Widiger. On the genetics of personality: David Goldman, Ken Kendler, Robert Plomin, and Daniel Weinberger. On stability and change in personality: Avshalom Caspi and Brent Roberts. On morality and character: Robert Cloninger, Jonathan Haidt, Christopher Peterson, Martin Seligman, Richard Shweder, and Frans de Waal. On identity and life stories: Dan McAdams. Thank you all.

This book was made possible by longstanding support from the University of California, which has provided me with an exceptional intellectual environment for more than forty years—first at its San Diego campus (UCSD) and, since 1986, at its San Francisco campus (UCSF). Throughout this period I also benefited greatly from research funding from
the National Institutes of Health and from private foundations, especially The McKnight Foundation. I would also like to acknowledge the friendship and support of Jeanne and Sandy Robertson, who helped me establish the Center for Neurobiology and Psychiatry at UCSF, and of Shari and Garen Staglin, who assisted in its further development through grants from The Staglin Music Festival for Mental Health and The International Mental Health Research Organization (IMHRO).

I discussed this book with many colleagues and received valuable suggestions from Steve Hamilton, Adrienne Larkin, John Livesley, Liz Perle, and Steve Rosen. I am also grateful for personal help from other colleagues: Peter Carroll, Glenn Chertow, Kerry Cho, Arkady Gendelman, James Ostroff, and Lisa Vail. And I thank Jody Williams for assistance with the bibliography.

Special thanks go to my agent, Lisa Queen, for her perseverance, wisdom, thoughtfulness, good humor, and for guiding me through the changing world of book publishing. I also thank my editor, Kirk Jensen, who first persuaded me to start writing trade books twenty years ago when he commissioned
Molecules and Mental Illness
for Scientific American Library. Kirk keeps telling me that I have other books in me, and I thank him for helping me bring this one to life. I also thank the outstanding professionals at Pearson/FT Press, especially project editor Lori Lyons, copy editor Krista Hansing, cover designer Chuti Prasertsith, and senior compositor Gloria Schurick.

Finally I’d like to thank a few members of my family, who each keep teaching me a lot about personality. I am fortunate to have my daughters, Elizabeth and Jessica, who are so close to each other and so close to me. I am fortunate to have my loving grandchildren, Jonah, Ellen, and Asher, my son-in-law Benjamin, and my stepson Whitney. And I am particularly fortunate to have my wife and soul mate, Louann Brizendine, who finishes my sentences, reads my mind, and keeps me continually inspired and entertained. My cup runneth over.

About the Author

Samuel Barondes
is the Jeanne and Sanford Robertson Professor and Director of the Center for Neurobiology and Psychiatry at the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco. He was trained in psychiatry and neuroscience at Columbia, Harvard, and the National Institutes of Health and has been at the University of California since 1970. He is the author of more than 200 research articles and has held many administrative and advisory positions, including Director of UCSF’s Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, President of the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience, and Chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Institute of Mental Health. He has received many honors, including membership in the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition to his research publications, Barondes has written three books about psychiatry for a general audience:
Molecules and Mental Illness
;
Mood Genes
; and
Better Than Prozac
. He lives in Sausalito, California, with his wife, Louann Brizendine.

Index

A

abuse in childhood, antisocial behavior and,
87-90

Adams, John,
119

adenine,
66

adolescence, brain development during,
93-95

Agreeableness

advantages/disadvantages of,
73-74

Barack Obama example,
27

Bill Clinton example,
24

defined,
17

dependent personality pattern and,
48

facets,
22

low Agreeableness patterns,
38-44

Allport, Gordon,
9-13
,
105
,
121
,
173

personality trait research,
9-13

separating character and personality,
105-106

American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV),
30

amygdala,
71
,
80
,
86
,
94

animal breeding, natural selection and,
58
,
61

antisocial behavior, childhood abuse and,
87-90

antisocial personality pattern

as character flaw,
107

defined,
30

examples of,
38-41
,
44

opinion of self and others,
51

apoptosis,
81

Apple,
134

The Audacity of Hope
(Obama),
147

autonomy in culture-based values,
115-117

avoidant personality pattern

as character flaw,
107

defined,
30

example of,
46-47

opinion of self and others,
52

axons,
79-81

B

Bardem, Javier,
43

Beck, Aaron T.,
50

Big Five domains,
16

Bill Clinton example,
23-27

Barack Obama example,
26-27

discovery of,
15

descriptions of,
16-19

facets of,
19-22

stabilization of,
96

borderline personality pattern

as character flaw,
107

defined,
30

example of,
48-50

opinion of self and others,
52

Bouchard, Thomas,
64

brain development

critical periods in,
82-84

during adolescence,
93-95

epigenetic effects on,
90-93

gene-environment dialogues in,
87-90

MRI studies of,
94

remodeling in,
80-81

stabilization in,
95-96

Brando, Marlon,
37

breeding animals with different personalities

dogs,
59

mice,
68-70

foxes,
161

Bush, George W.,
39

C

Caspi, Avshalom,
96

Chamberlain, Lisa,
40

changes in personality,
96
,
148-150