Publisher Description

What does it mean to have a personality? Is emotional intelligence a kind of intelligence? Learn the answers to these questions, as well as everything you need to know about personality, intelligence, and individual differences in the third edition of this clear and accessible textbook. From natural selection to intelligence tests, and from personality disorders to the concept of IQ, the panoramic coverage of this field makes this textbook essential reading for any psychology student on a personality and individual differences course. New to this edition: * Increased coverage of intelligence * 'Key Theorists' feature * Discussion questions moved to end-of-chapter to enable in-text assessment Nick Haslam is Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Luke Smillie is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne and director of the Personality Processes Lab.

Author Biography

Nick Haslam is Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He received his PhD in clinical and social psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and previously taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Nick's research interests include mental health, stigma, and dehumanization and he has published over 250 scholarly articles and book chapters on these and other topics.. In addition to this volume he has published several other books, including Introduction to the Taxometric Method, Values and Vulnerabilities: The Ethics of Research with Refugees and Asylum Seekers and Psychology in the Bathroom.Luke Smillie is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne and director of the Personality Processes Lab. He received his PhD from the University of Queensland and completed postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of London. He has published over 100 journal articles and book chapters on a range of topics in personality, including neurobiological and motivational accounts of individual differences, the correlates and consequences of extraversion and other basic traits, and the links between personality and social behaviour. He is an Associate Editor at both the Journal of Personality and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Describing PersonalityChapter 1: What is Personality?Chapter 2: Trait PsychologyChapter 3: Personality ProcessesSection 2: Explaining PersonalityChapter 4: Psychoanalytic Approaches to PersonalityChapter 5: Biological Approaches Part 1: Evolution and GeneticsChapter 6: Biological Approaches Part 2: Brain Structure and FunctionChapter 7: Cognitive Approaches to Personality and their PrecursorsSection 3: Applying PersonalityChapter 8: Personality Change and DevelopmentChapter 9: The Assessment of PersonalityChapter 10: Personality and Mental DisorderChapter 11: Psychobiography and Life NarrativesSection 4: IntelligenceChapter 12: Intelligence and Cognitive AbilitiesChapter 13: Intelligence in Everyday LifeChapter 14: Emotional Intelligence

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