Personality Traits

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Cambridge University Press, 29 oct 2009 - 568 páginas
Now in its third edition, this dynamic textbook analyses the traits fundamental to human personality: what they are, why they matter, their biological and social foundations, how they play out in human life and their consequences for cognition, stress and physical and mental health. The text also considers the applications of personality assessment in clinical, educational and occupational settings, providing the reader with a detailed understanding of the whole field of personality traits. This edition, now with improved student features, includes the latest research from behavioural genetics, neuroscience, social psychology and cognitive science, assesses the impact of new research techniques like brain imagery, and provides additional content on positive aspects of traits and practical uses of personality assessment. This is an essential textbook for students taking courses in personality and individual differences and also provides researchers and practitioners with a coherent, up-to-date survey of this significant area.
 

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A brief history of traits
8
the 16PF and other questionnaires
19
Current conceptions of personality structure
26
Conclusions
40
Are traits universal across cultures?
55
Conclusions
62
longitudinal studies
78
Stable traits and transient states
85
Personality and sensitivity to motivational stimuli
219
where next?
226
socialpsychological perspectives
236
Consistencies in social knowledge and cognition
248
agreeableness and social behaviour
254
A rapprochement between social psychology and trait theory?
261
Stress
269
l0 Traits and health
301

affect mood and selfreport arousal
91
challenges to trait theory
121
contemporary studies
128
Humanistic and phenomenological approaches
139
Conclusions
148
Twin studies
159
Genes environment and multiple personality traits
168
Molecular genetic studies of personality
181
The psychobiology of traits
187
an outline and examples
196
Personality and brain imaging
203
towards an integrated theory?
209
Abnormal personality traits?
323
Personality performance and information processing
357
Extraversionintroversion and performance
367
Trait anxiety neuroticism and performance
377
Personality and intelligence
385
l3 Applications of personality assessment
392
Personality and job performance
411
Conclusions
427
Traits and the coherence of personality theory
447
Author index
547
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Gerald Matthews is Professor of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati and has previously held faculty positions at the Universities of Aston and Dundee. He has co-authored several volumes, including Attention and Emotion: a Clinical Perspective (1994) which won the 1998 British Psychological Society Book Award, and has published many articles in the area of personality research. Ian J. Deary is Professor of Differential Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, and Director of the University of Edinburgh Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, has written extensively on personality and intelligence and won the 2002 British Psychological Society Book Award for Looking Down on Human Intelligence (2000). Martha C. Whiteman is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. Her research and teaching are directed towards interpersonal aspects of personality, health and well-being, and the circumstances which may affect upward-moving or downward-moving health trajectories. She has contributed chapters to personality and health texbooks, while journal publications include articles in The Lancet and Psychosomatic Medicine.

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