1st Edition

Advances in Personality Psychology Volume II

Edited By Andrzej Eliasz, Sarah E. Hampson, Boele de Raad Copyright 2006
240 Pages
by Psychology Press

234 Pages
by Psychology Press

240 Pages
by Psychology Press

The second volume in the Advances in Personality Psychology series, this book presents an authoritative collection of works by leading experts in the field. It focuses on three of the major issues in personality psychology: personality, affect and arousal; personality and intelligence; and personality structure. The first part of the book seeks to analyse cognitive biases dependent on anxiety... Read more

A. Eliasz, S.E. Hampson, B. de Raad, Editors Preface.  M. W. Eysenck, Cognitive Approaches to Trait Anxiety. J. Strealau, B. Zawadzki, The Functional Significance of Temperament Empirically Tested: Data Based on Hypotheses Derived from the Regulative Theory of Temperament. J. Hettama, Personality and Information Processing: Biological Foundations of Thought and Action. B. Szymura, E. Necka, Three Superfactors of Personality and Three Aspects of Attention. P.L. Ackerman, Personality, Trait Complexes, and Adult Intelligence. N. Brody, Phenotypes and Genotypes of Personality and Intelligence: Similarities and Differences. Timothy Church, Marcia S. Katigbak, Personality Structure Across Cultures: Indigenous and Cross-cultural Perspectives, B. de Raad, Situations that Matter to Personality.

Biography

Andrzej Eliasz is Professor and President of the Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Poland

Sarah Hampson is Professor of Psychology and Health in the Department of Psychology, the University of Surrey, UK, and Senior Scientist, Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, Oregon, USA

Boele de Raad is Professor in the Faculty of Behaviour and Social Sciences at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Advances in Personality Psychology covers topics that are at the forefront of modern personality research. The chapter authors are eminent researchers who, in this volume, have set out many of the central issues that personality research will need to explore further in the years ahead.

Martha C. Whiteman, Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh

This book follows up nicely on the first volume in the Advances in Personality Psychology series. It provides first-rate reviews of some of the research areas most salient in contemporary personality research.

Gerald Matthews, Professor of Psychology, University of Cincinnati