Table of Contents

Preface; Editors' general introduction; Part I. Foundation Issues: 1. Conceptual issues in personality theory; 2. Personality psychology of situations; 3. Personality: traits and situations; 4. Personality and emotion; 5. The characterization of persons: some fundamental conceptual issues; Part II. Personality Description and Measurement: 6. The trait approach to personality; 7. Methods of personality assessment; 8. Structural models of personality; 9. The Five-Factor Model of personality traits: consensus and controversy; 10. Personality and intelligence; Part III. Development, Health and Personality Change: 11. Childhood temperament; 12. The development of personality across the lifespan; 13. Models of personality and health; 14. Attachment theory: I. Motivational, individual-differences and structural aspects; 15. Attachment theory: II. Developmental, psychodynamic and optimal-functioning aspects; Part IV. Biological Perspectives: 16. Evolutionary theories of personality; 17. Animal models of personality and cross-species comparisons; 18. Behavioural genetics: from variance to DNA; 19. Neuroimaging of personality; 20. Personality neuroscience: explaining individual differences in affect, behaviour and cognition; 21. The reinforcement sensitivity theory of personality; Part V. Cognitive Perspectives: 22. Semantic and linguistic aspects of personality; 23. Personality and performance: cognitive processes and models; 24. Self-regulation and control in personality functioning; 25. Self-determination theory: a consideration of human motivational universals; 26. Traits and the self: toward an integration; 27. Personality as a cognitive-affective processing system; Part VI. Social and Cultural Processes: 28. The storied construction of personality; 29. Personality and social relationships; 30. Personality and social support processes; 31. Social pain and hurt feelings; 32. Personality in cross-culture perspective; 33. Culture and personality; 34. Personality and politics; Part VII. Psychopathology: 35. Mood and anxiety disorders: the hierarchical structure of personality and psychopathology; 36. Personality and psychosis; 37. Diagnosis and assessment of disorders of personality; 38. Psychopathy and its measurement; 39. Personality and eating disorders; 40. Personality and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Part VIII. Applied Personality Psychology: 41. Personality in school psychology; 42. Personality in educational psychology; 43. Personality at work; 44. Workplace safety and personality; 45. Personality and crime; 46. Treatment of personality disorders.

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An invaluable one-stop resource summarising cutting-edge personality research, from DNA to political influences on its development, expression and applications.

About the Author

Philip J. Corr is Professor of Psychology at Swansea University. Gerald Matthews is Professor of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati.

Reviews

'Personality is the core discipline of psychology and to be a personality psychologist requires a broad understanding of the subject's diverse fields. The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology expertly demonstrates this breadth, bringing together some of the leading young as well as established researchers in personality. Corr and Matthews, two well-known personality researchers, show how personality is an international discipline with a diversity of approaches but one common goal: excellent science.' William Revelle, Northwestern University

'Thoroughly up-to-date and all-encompassing, with impeccable authorship - this volume is a must for the shelves of all personality researchers and teachers.' Glenn Wilson, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London