Personality and Individual Differences

Personality and Individual Differences is a state-of-the-art undergraduate textbook that covers the salient and recent literature on personality, intellectual ability, motivation and other individual differences such as creativity, emotional intelligence, leadership and vocational interests. This third edition has been completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date and cutting-edge data and analysis. As well as introducing all topics related to individual differences, this book examines and discusses many important underlying issues, such as the psychodynamic approach to latent variables, validity, reliability and correlations between constructs. An essential textbook for first-time as well as more advanced students of the discipline, Personality and Individual Differences provides grounding in all major aspects of differential psychology. A companion website containing additional teaching and learning resources can be found at www.wiley.com/college/chamorro-premuzic.

Preface to Third Edition xiii Preface to Second Edition xiv Preface to First Edition xv Acknowledgments xvii About the Author xviii Chapter 1 Introducing Individual Differences – From Everyday to Psychological Questions 1 Chapter 2 Personality, Part I 23 Chapter 3 Personality, Part II – Validating Personality Traits 61 Chapter 4 Psychopathology 109 Chapter 5 Intelligence, Part I 145 Chapter 6 Intelligence, Part II – Validating Intelligence and Correlates of IQ (Causes and Consequences) 175 Chapter 7 Behavioral Genetics 205 Chapter 8 Beyond IQ – Theories of Hot Intelligence 239 Chapter 9 Mood and Motivation 269 Chapter 10 Creativity 303 Chapter 11 Leadership 337 Chapter 12 Vocational Interests 369 Glossary 391 References 399 Index 447