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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.
Show moreWhat 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.
Show moreSection 1: Describing Personality
Chapter 1: What is Personality?
Chapter 2: Trait Psychology
Chapter 3: Personality Processes
Section 2: Explaining Personality
Chapter 4: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Personality
Chapter 5: Biological Approaches Part 1: Evolution and Genetics
Chapter 6: Biological Approaches Part 2: Brain Structure and
Function
Chapter 7: Cognitive Approaches to Personality and their
Precursors
Section 3: Applying Personality
Chapter 8: Personality Change and Development
Chapter 9: The Assessment of Personality
Chapter 10: Personality and Mental Disorder
Chapter 11: Psychobiography and Life Narratives
Section 4: Intelligence
Chapter 12: Intelligence and Cognitive Abilities
Chapter 13: Intelligence in Everyday Life
Chapter 14: Emotional Intelligence
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.
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