Product Description

Personality and Individual Differences covers the salient and recent literature on personality, intellectual ability, motivation, and other individual differences such as creativity, leadership and emotional intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences provides grounding in all the major aspects of differential psychology.

• Packed with real life examples and controversies in the field, ideal to get students thinking about the applications of personality and individual differences
  
• Introduces all topics of individual differences as well as important underlying issues, such as the psychometric approach to latent variables, validity, reliability, and correlations between constructs
  
• Features easily accessible ′classic′ references at the end of each chapter, in addition to further reading suggestions
  
• An essential textbook for all first–time students of the topic, providing a grounding in all the major aspects of the field, and a platform from which to elaborate, discuss, and follow up research
  
• Supported by a website containing instructor material, further web resources and electronic versions of chapters. Visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/personality for more information

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #259140 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Review
"Unlike many other individual different texts, [this book] does not concentrate solely on personality and intelligence, but includes chapters on behavioural genetics, ′hot intelligence′, mood and motivation, creativity, leadership, and vocational interests.... The book is well written and in a style suitable for A–level and first–year graduates." (Psychology Learning and Teaching, Autumn 2008)

"A good textbook with in–depth discussions of current issues in personality and individual differences." (Times)

From the Back Cover
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.

As well as introducing all topics relating to individual differences this book examines and discusses many important underlying issues, such as the psychometric 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 the major aspects of differential psychology.

In addition, the textbook is supported by a website containing instructor material, further web resources and electronic versions of chapters. Visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/personality for more information.

About the Author
Tomas Chamorro–Premuzic is a lecturer in psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has published more than 30 scientific papers on personality and intelligence. His first book, Personality and Intellectual Competence, co–authored with Adrian Furnham, was published in 2005.