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Personality and Individual Differences
"Personality and Individual Differences is my preferred textbook in the field, because it is comprehensive, up-to-date and versatile. All my students, ranging from undergraduates to postgraduates, have found this book useful and stimulating for an introduction to Individual Differences research.’’—Sophie von Stumm, Lecturer, Goldsmiths University of London, UK "This textbook by Dr Chamorro-Premuzic is an excellent introduction to the myriad aspects of personality research and application. In addition, it provides a unique perspective that relates psychological theory to the use of individual-differences assessments in real-world situations. It is lively, entertaining, and highly informative."—Phillip L. Ackerman, Professor of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA ‘’Selecting adjectives from a checklist is one way to assess key characteristics of personality. My top adjectives for Personality and Individual Differences include authoritative, wise, comprehensive, up to date, succinct, well organized, exciting, enjoyable, accessible, and well produced. You are in safe hands with one of the top researchers in the field.’’—Robert Plomin, MRC Research Professor and Deputy Director, King's College London, UK
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic (Author)
9781118773031, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 5 December 2014
480 pages
24.4 x 18.5 x 1.5 cm, 0.771 kg
Personality 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 can be found at www.wiley.com/college/chamorro-premuzic.
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
Subject Areas: Psychology [JM]
