Personality and Intelligence

A 1994 collection of essays which explore the work now being done at the interface of intelligence and personality.

Robert J. Sternberg (Edited by), Patricia Ruzgis (Edited by)

9780521428354, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 April 1994

352 pages, 9 b/w illus. 4 tables
23.4 x 15.6 x 1.9 cm, 0.49 kg

"...should be of interest to graduate students and professionals in the areas of personality, social, developmental, cognitive, cross-cultural, and educational psychology....This book is a useful source of ideas and proves that there are many connections to be drawn between personality and intelligence." Barbara A. Woike, Contemporary Psychology

Motivated by their belief that the most interesting work on intelligence is now being done at the interface of intelligence and personality, Robert Sternberg and Patricia Ruzgis have collected a body of essays exploring the interconnections and interdependencies between these two constructs. The essays selected for this 1994 volume form a history of the fields of intelligence and personality, from the period of 'grand theories', in which researchers sought to formulate overarching theories of the constructs as a whole, to the psychometric approach of factor analysis, to the development of situational and domain-specific theories, and finally to current research on person-situation interactions. Including work from prominent researchers such as Eysenck, Baltes, Dwek, Cantor, Ford, Smirnov, and Salovey, the book comprises an overview of the current state of the literature on the integration of the emotional and cognitive sides of a person's life.

Part I. Personality Traits and Intelligence: 1. Personality and intelligence: psychometric and experimental approaches H. J. Eysenck
2. Intelligence, personality, and prudence Nick Haslam and Jonathan Baron
Part II. Personality Development and Intelligence: 3. A life-span perspective on the interface between personality and intelligence Anna G. Maciel, Jutta Heckhausen and Paul B. Baltes
4. Toward an integrative model of personality and intelligence: a general framework and some preliminary steps Chi-Yue Chiu, Ying-Yi-Hong and Carol S. Dwek
Part III. Personality and the Manifestations of Intelligence: 5. Social intelligence and personality: flexible life task pursuit Nancy Cantor and Robert Harlow
6. Thinking styles: theory and assessment at the interface between intelligence and personality Robert J. Sternberg
7. A living systems approach to the integration of personality and intelligence Martin E. Ford
Part IV. Personality, Intelligence And Culture: 8. Intelligence and personality in the psychological theory of activit Sergei D. Smirnov
9. Cultural meaning systems, intelligence, and personality Patricia Ruzgis and Elena L. Grigorenko
10. Morality, authoritarianism, and personal agency in cultural contexts Elliot Turiel
Part V. Integration: 11. Some final thoughts about personality and intelligence Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer
Author index
Subject index.

Subject Areas: Social, group or collective psychology [JMH]