Description
Book SynopsisPersonality and Individual Differences is a state-of-the-art undergraduate textbook that covers the salient and recent literature on personality, intellectual ability, motivation and other individual differences such as creativity, emotional intelligence, leadership and vocational interests.
This third edition has been completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date and cutting-edge data and analysis. As well as introducing all topics related to individual differences, this book examines and discusses many important underlying issues, such as the psychodynamic approach to latent variables, validity, reliability and correlations between constructs.
An essential textbook for first-time as well as more advanced students of the discipline, Personality and Individual Differences provides grounding in all major aspects of differential psychology.
A companion website containing additional teaching and learning resources
Table of Contents
Preface to Third Edition xiii
Preface to Second Edition xiv
Preface to First Edition xv
Acknowledgments xvii
About the Author xviii
Chapter 1 Introducing Individual Differences – From Everyday to Psychological Questions 1
Chapter 2 Personality, Part I 23
Chapter 3 Personality, Part II – Validating Personality Traits 61
Chapter 4 Psychopathology 109
Chapter 5 Intelligence, Part I 145
Chapter 6 Intelligence, Part II – Validating Intelligence and Correlates of IQ (Causes and Consequences) 175
Chapter 7 Behavioral Genetics 205
Chapter 8 Beyond IQ – Theories of Hot Intelligence 239
Chapter 9 Mood and Motivation 269
Chapter 10 Creativity 303
Chapter 11 Leadership 337
Chapter 12 Vocational Interests 369
Glossary 391
References 399
Index 447
