Personality and Individual Differences (3^rd Ed.)
BPS Textbooks in Psychology Series

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