The Wiley-blackwell Handbook of Individual Differences

by Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; von Stumm, Sophie; Furnham, Adrian

• ISBN13: 9781444334388
• ISBN10: 1444334387
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-18
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Individual Differences provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of recent research, current perspectives, practical applications, and likely future developments in individual differences. Brings together the work of the top global researchers within the area of individual differences, including Philip L. Ackerman, Ian J. Deary, Ed Diener, Robert Hogan, Deniz S. Ones and Dean Keith Simonton Covers methodological, theoretical and paradigm changes in the area of individual differences Individual chapters cover core areas of individual differences including personality and intelligence, biological causes of individual differences, and creativity and emotional intelligence

Author Biography

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is Reader at Goldsmiths, University of London, Research Fellow at University College London, and Visiting Professor at NYU in London. Chamorro-Premuzic has published more than 100 scientific articles and authored four books, including the textbook Personality and Individual Differences (also published by Wiley-Blackwell). He is a keynote speaker of the Institute of Economic Affairs and makes frequent media appearances in the UK and internationally.

Sophie von Stumm is an award-winning young scientist who completed her postgraduate training at the University of Edinburgh and Goldsmiths, University of London. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chichester. Her research interests focus on intelligence-personality associations in relation to educational, social, and health outcomes.

Adrian Furnham is currently Professor of Psychology at University College London. He has lectured widely abroad and held scholarships and visiting professorships at, among others, the University of New South Wales, the University of the West Indies, the University of Hong Kong, and the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Furnham is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and has written over 700 scientific papers and 60 books. He is on the editorial board of a number of international journals, as well as the past elected President of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences.

Table of Contents

Preface

Individual differences: An up-to-date historical and methodological overview

Individual Differences and Differential Psychology: A brief history and prospect

Methodological Advances in Differential Psychology

Intelligence and Personality: Structure and Development

Personality

Personality Development Across the Life Span

Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory, Research, Applications and Future

The General Factor of Personality: Normal and Abnormal

Five Into One Doesn't Go: A Critique of the General Factor of Personality

Intelligence

The Nature and Structure of "Intelligence"

Re-visiting Intelligence-Personality Associations: Vindicating Intellectual Investment

Individual Differences in Cognitive Aging

Biological Causes of Individual Differences

Behavior Genetics

Molecular Genetic Aspects of Personality

Understanding Human Intelligence Imaging the Brain

Evolutionary psychology and individual differences

Individual Differences and real-world outcomes

Work

Individual Differences at Work

Leadership

Health, Longevity and Death

Cognitive Epidemiology: concepts, evidence, and future directions

Personality and Differences in Health and Longevity

Society

Personality and the laws of history

Individual differences and antisocial behaviour

& Intelligence and Social Inequality: Why the Biological Link?

Motivation and Vocational Interests

Goal Setting: A State Theory but Related to Traits

Personality and Approaches to Learning

Vocational Interests: The Road Less Traveled

Competence beyond IQ

Special Abilities

Exceptional Talent and Genius

Emotional Intelligence

Individual Differences in Creativity

Relationships and Subjective Well-being

Personality and Happiness: Predicting the Experience of Subjective Well-Being

Self-Esteem: Enduring Issues and Controversies

Love at first sight? Individual differences and the psychology of initial romantic attraction

Manifestations of Individual Differences in Physical and Virtual Environments

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