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Discusses how and why people are different from each other with respect to personality traits, and how these differences impact behavior

Table of Contents

1. Basic Concepts in Psychological Measurement2. Personality Traits and the Inventories that Measure Them3. Personality Structure: Classifying Traits 4. Developmental Change and Stability of Personality5. Biological Bases of Personality6. Genetic and Environmental Influences on Personality7. The Evolutionary Function of Personality8. Personality Disorders9. Personality and Life Outcomes10. Mental Ability11. Vocational Interests12. Religion and Politics13. Sexuality

About the Author

Michael C. Ashton is a professor of psychology at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario in 1998. As a grad student in the late 1990s, together with Kibeom Lee, he did some cross-cultural research to find out whether the “Big Five” personality dimensions found in North America could be recovered in other cultures. Using their own work and that of other researchers, they found that there were actually six personality dimensions. The “new” one was the H factor, or the Honesty-Humility Factor, was discovered and is now considered one of the six dimensions of human personality. In addition to the second edition of the textbook, Individual Differences and Personality, he is the author of numerous articles in scientific journals, and co-authored with Kibeom Lee The H Factor of Personality.