Part 1: Examining Personality
Chapter	Recommended Film	Comments
Chapter 1: What Is Personality?	"Generation Me"	An interview with Jean Twenge, a personality psychologist who looks at generational cohort effects. A discussion starter about "What do personality psychologists know?" and "What can they tell us?" (See "Finding Google Video Clips" below).
	Ladd, C. (2005). "i" -- a short film by Chris Ladd. New York: IronCLadd Productions.	A film project by Chris Ladd (www.hirechrisladd.com), in which he explores his identity. Noteworthy are its accuracy, focus on the applied aspects of identity (i.e., he wants to figure out what he will do after graduating from college) and interviews -- with a psychic, and with two of his psychology professors at Skidmore college. It makes for an entertaining 32 minutes (To obtain the clip, see "Finding Google Video Clips" below).
Chapter 2: Evaluating Personality Research	Against All Odds (Program on Correlation) PBS/Annenberg Communications	Great review of correlation. You can get by with just the first 25 minutes or so, or let it run its full length. Also, great footage of identical twins
Chapter 3: Perspectives On Personality	Personality Theories (Insight Media #PHE-117)	Serviceable presentation of psychodynamic, humanstic, and social cognitive approaches. Uses Nelson Mandela as example. Many famous personality psychologists on tape.

 

Part 2: Personality's Parts
Chapter	Recommended Film	Comments
Chapter 4: Motivation and Emotion in Personality	The Face, Vol. 1, BBC, with John Cleese	Fabulous video concerning emotion and the face. The entire video spans four programs. I find that Volume 1 is the most focused on psychological principles relevant to this chapter.
Chapter 5: Interior Selves; Interior Worlds	Discovering Psychology (with Phil Zimbardo). Parts 1-26. The Self	Depressed selves, happy selves, id, ego, superego (a little). Models of the self with Phil Zimbardo inter “acting” with an acting coach. Enactment of different relationship styles. But see Chapter 9 below, where this might work better...
Chapter 6: Mental Abilities and Skills	None yet identified.
Chapter 7: The Conscious Self	None yet identified.

 

Part 3: Personality Organization
Chapter	Recommended Film	Comments
Chapter 8: How the Parts of Personality Fit Together	None yet identified.
Chapter 9: The Dynamics of Action	Discovering Psychology (with Phil Zimbardo). Parts 1-26. The Self	Depressed selves, happy selves, id, ego, superego (a little). Models of the self with Phil Zimbardo interacting with an acting coach. Enactment of different relationship styles.
Chapter 10: The Dynamics of Self-Control	Discovering Psychology (with Phil Zimbardo). Parts 1-26: The Mind Hidden and Divided	Great footage of hypnotic sessions…Hilgard ice water tests (with hidden observer). Phil Zimbardo conducting sessions.

 

Part 4: Personality Development
Chapter	Recommended Film	Comments
Chapter 11: Personality Development in Childhood and Adolescence	Worlds of Childhood Series: 12. Interactional styles and attachment (1992). GPN Educational Media.	The early portions of this film provide excellent footage of mother/infant interactions and attachment. Very good for Chapter 11.
	Alternate: Erik H. Erikson: A life’s Work	Very dated, but not bad. Might be better off with any generic developmental film.
Chapter 12: Personality Development in Adulthood	None yet identified.