An Introduction to Personality, Individual Differences and Intelligence
SAGE Publications Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4462-4962-8 (ISBN)
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The second edition of this popular textbook builds on the strengths of the first, continuing its reputation for clarity, accessibility, conceptual sophistication and panoramic coverage of personality and intelligence. The authorship team is enriched by the addition of two high-profile international scholars, Luke Smillie and John Song, whose expertise broadens and deepens the text.
New to this edition:
Chapters exploring the neurobiological, genetic and evolutionary foundations of personality; and emotion, motivation and personality processes
An enhanced coverage of personality disorders
A thoroughly revised and extended section on intelligence which now addresses cognitive abilities and their biological bases; the role of intelligence in everyday life; and emotional intelligence
A brand new companion website that includes a substantial test bank and lecture slides.
An Introduction to Personality, Individual Differences and Intelligence, Second Edition is a key textbook for all psychology students on a personality or individual differences course.
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. John Song received his Ph.D. from Swinburne University, Australia in 2003. He worked as a lecturer in Australia before moving to the UK where he is currently a senior lecturer in psychology at De Montfort University. He teaches intelligence, personality, and research methods, and in 2016 he co-led a successful study and cultural-exposure trip for a group of psychology students to Taiwan to explore cross-cultural concepts around intelligence. He is also the programme leader of four undergraduate psychology programmes at De Montfort University. His research interests are in the field of individual differences. His Ph.D. research focused on brain electrical activity during completion of an intelligence test. Current interests include intelligence-related cognitive processes and also individual differences variables such morningness and creativity. He has published book chapters on topics such as intelligence, personality, and assessment, and in 2015 received the Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award at De Montfort University.
SECTION 1 DESCRIBING PERSONALITY
1. What is Personality?
2.Trait Psychology
3. Personality Processes
SECTION 2 EXPLAINING PERSONALITY
4.Psychoanalytic Approaches to Personality
5.Biological Approaches I: Evolution and Genetics
6.Biological Approaches II: Brain Structure and Function
7.Cognitive Approaches to Personality
SECTION 3 APPLYING PERSONALITY
8.Personality Change and Development
9.The Assessment of Personality
10. Personality and Mental Disorder
11. Psychobiography and Life Narratives
SECTION 4 INTELLIGENCE
12. Intelligence and Cognitive Abilities
13. Intelligence in Everyday Life
14. Emotional Intelligence
| Verlagsort | London |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 186 x 232 mm |
| Gewicht | 850 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4462-4962-X / 144624962X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4462-4962-8 / 9781446249628 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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