Summary
Overview
Key Readings
This collection provides a comprehensive up-to-date synthesis of some of the most significant publications in the psychology of individual differences field over the past two decades. It contains benchmark readings, including highly cited empirical articles, review articles with an emphasis on critical review articles as well some book chapters that have had great impact in terms of presenting research findings and influencing the key debates in the field. There is a particular emphasis on recent key publications to complement older classic works, an overall integration of this expansive field and a thoroughly international focus.
In addition to the 80 key original publications included in the collection, Volume One opens with an introductory editorial essay by the Editors setting out the rationale behind the selections, and providing ...
Editors' Introduction: Contemporary Perspectives on the Psychology of Individual Differences
Human beings have tended to describe their uniqueness in two ways. They can be distinguished from all other life forms on this planet by the very fact that they are the most intellectually developed species in the animal kingdom. However, this uniformity within human kind is further characterised by a vast range of individual differences. It is this individual uniqueness that has held the greatest fascination of ourselves by ourselves as evidenced throughout history. Individual differences in personality and motivation were variously attributed to the ‘will of the gods’ or Galen's four bodily humours, and explanations for variability in human abilities and behaviours were forthcoming from the religions and social philosophies of the ...
Table of Contents
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Volume I: Intelligence
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1. Process Differences and Individual Differences in Some Cognitive Tasks
Arthur Jensen
1987
Intelligence
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2. Inspection Time and Intelligence: A Meta-Analysis
John Kranzler
1989
Intelligence
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3. The Nature of Psychometric g: Unitary Process or a Number of Independent Processes?
John Kranzler
1991
Intelligence
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4. Creativity and Personality: Suggestions for a Theory
Hans Eysenck
1993
Psychological Inquiry
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5. Models and Paradigms in Personality and Intelligence Research
Lazar Stankov | Gregory Boyle | Raymond Cattell
1995
International Handbook of Personality and Intelligence
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Robert Sternberg | Richard Wagner | Wendy Williams | Joseph Horvath
1995
American Psychologist
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7. Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns
Ulric Neisser | Gwyneth Boodoo | Thomas Bouchard | A. Boykin | Nathan Brody | Stephen Ceci | Diane Halpern | John Loehlin | Robert Perloff | Robert Sternberg | Susana Urbina
1996
American Psychologist
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Heinrich Stumpf | Julian Stanley
1982
Journal of Educational Psychology
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9. Mainstream Science on Intelligence: An Editorial With 52 Signatories, History, and Bibliography
Linda Gottfredson
1997
Intelligence
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10. Sex Differences in Intelligence: Implications for Education
Diane Halpern
1997
American Psychologist
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11. Mental Speed is not the “Basic” Process of Intelligence
Lazar Stankov | Richard Roberts
1997
Personality and Individual Differences
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12. Varieties of Intellectual Talent
Julian Stanley
1997
Journal of Creative Behavior
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13. Genetic and Environmental Influences on Adult Intelligence and Special Mental Abilities
Thomas Bouchard
1998
Human Biology
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Ian Deary | Lawrence Whalley | Helen Lemmon | J. Crawford | John Starr
2000
Intelligence
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15. From the Binet-Simon to the Wechsler-Bellevue: Tracing the History of Intelligence Testing
Corwin Boake
2002
Journal of Clinical Experimental Neuropsychology
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16. Stimulation Seeking and Intelligence: A Prospective Longitudinal Study
Adrian Raine | Chandra Reynolds | Peter Venables | Sarnoff Mednick
2002
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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Volume II: Personality
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17. Cattell and the Theory of Personality
H. Eysenck
1984
Multivariate Behavioral Research
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18. A Large Scale Cross-Validation of Second-Order Personality Structure Defined by the 16PF
Samuel Krug | Edgar Johns
1986
Psychological Reports
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19. The Lexical Approach to Personality: A Historical Review of Trait Taxonomic Research
Oliver John | Alois Angleitner | Fritz Ostendorf
1988
European Journal of Personality
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Bryan Mershon | Richard Gorsuch
1988
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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21. Personality Structure: Emergence of the Five-Factor Model
John Digman
1990
Annual Review of Psychology
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22. Dimensions of Personality: 16, 5 or 3?: Criteria for a Taxonomic Paradigm
H. Eysenck
1991
Personality and Individual Differences
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23. Four Ways Five Factors are Not Basic
H. Eysenck
1992
Personality and Individual Differences
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24. The Five-Factor Model In Personality: A Critical Appraisal
Dan McAdams
1992
Journal of Personality
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25. Exploratory and Confirmatory Tests of the Big Five and Tellegen's Three- and Four-Dimensional Models
A. Church | Peter Burke
1994
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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D. Saklofske | H. Eysenck
1994
Encyclopedia of Human Behavior
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27. A Contrarian View of the Five-Factor Approach to Personality Description
Jack Block
1995
Psychological Bulletin
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28. Measurement and Statistical Models in the Study of Personality and Intelligence
Gregory Boyle | Lazar Stankov | Raymond Cattell
1995
International Handbook of Personality and Intelligence
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Walter Mischel | Yuichi Shoda
1995
Psychological Review
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30. Broadsided by Broad Traits: How to Sink Science in Five Dimensions or Less
Robert Schneider | Leaetta Hough | Marvin Dunnette
1996
Journal of Organizational Behavior
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31. What is Beyond the Big Five? Plenty!
Sampo Paunonen | Douglas Jackson
2000
Journal of Personality
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32. Millennial Contrarianism: The Five-Factor Approach to Personality Description 5 Years Later
Jack Block
2001
Journal of Research in Personality
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Volume III: Cognition, Emotion and Conation
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33. The Trilogy of Mind: Cognition, Affection, and Conation
Ernest Hilgard
1980
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
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34. Critical Review of State-Trait Curiosity Test Development
Gregory Boyle
1983
Motivation and Emotion
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Peter Salovey | John Mayer
1990
Imagination, Cognition, and Personality
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36. Bridging Cognition and Personality in Education: the Role of Style in Performance and Development
Samuel Messick
1996
European Journal of Personality
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37. Intelligence, Personality, and Interests: Evidence for Overlapping Traits
Phillip Ackerman | Eric Heggestad
1997
Psychological Bulletin
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38. Emotional Intelligence: In Search of an Elusive Construct
Michaela Davies | Lazar Stankov | Richard Roberts
1998
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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39. Personality, Self-Regulation, and Adaptation: A Cognitive-Social Framework
Gerald Matthews | Vicki Schwean | Sian Campbell | Donald Saklofske | Abdalla Mohamed
2000
Handbook of Self-Regulation
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40. A Neuropsychological Theory of Positive Affect and its Influence on Cognition
F. Ashby | Alice Isen | U. Turken
1999
Psychological Review
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41. Where do Motivational and Emotional Traits fit Within Three Factor Models of Personality?
Marvin Zuckerman | Jeffrey Joireman | Michael Kraft | D. Kuhlman
1999
Personality and Individual Differences
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David Lubinski | Camilla Benbow
2000
American Psychologist
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Richard Ryan | Edward Deci
2000
American Psychologist
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44. Conative Individual Differences in Learning
Lyn Corno | R. Snow
2001
Intelligence and Personality
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Sonja Lyubomirsky
2001
American Psychologist
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Richard Roberts | Moshe Zeidner | Gerald Matthews
2001
Emotion
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Raymond Cattell | Gregory Boyle | David Chant
2002
Psychological Review
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Volume IV: Clinical and Applied Research
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48. Self-Report Measures of Depression: Some Psychometric Considerations
Gregory Boyle
1985
The British Journal of Clinical Psychology
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Yossef Ben-Porath | Niels Waller
1992
Psychological Assessment
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50. Sensory and Affective Components of Pain: Separation and Synthesis
Ephrem Fernandez | Dennis Turk
1992
Psychological Bulletin
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51. Personality Disorder Diagnosis: Limitations of the Five-Factor Model
Lee Clark
1993
Psychological Inquiry
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52. A Perspective on Developments in Assessing Psychopathology: A Critical Review of the MMPI and MMPI-2
Edward Helmes | John Reddon
1993
Psychological Bulletin
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53. Single Indicator of Risk for Schizophrenia: Probable Fact or Likely Myth?
Gordon Claridge
1994
Schizophrenia Bulletin
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54. An Empirical Study of the Diathesis-Stress Theory of Disease
R. Grossarth-Maticek | H. Eysenck | G. Boyle
1994
International Journal of Stress Management
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Albert Mehrabian
1997
Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
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56. Dimensional Models of Personality: A Framework for Systematic Clinical Assessment
Gerald Matthews | Donald Saklofske | Paul Costa | Ian Deary | Moshe Zeidner
1998
European Journal of Personality
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57. Adaptive and Maladaptive Coping
Moshe Zeidner | Donald Saklofske
1996
Handbook of Coping
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58. The Circumplex Structure of Interpersonal Problems
Leonard Horowitz | D. Dryer | Elena Krasnoperova
1997
Circumplex Models of Personality and Emotions
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59. Schizotypal Personality Traits: An Extension of Previous Psychometric Investigations
Gregory Boyle
1998
Australian Journal of Psychology
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R. Grossarth-Maticek | H. Eysenck | G. Boyle | J. Heep | S. Costa | I. Diel
2000
Journal of Clinical Psychology
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61. Male Circumcision: Pain, Trauma and Psychosexual Sequelae
Gregory Boyle | Ronald Goldman | J. Svoboda | Ephrem Fernandez
2002
Journal of Health Psychology
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Adrian Raine | Todd Lencz | Susan Bihrle | Lori LaCasse | Patrick Colletti
2000
Archives of General Psychiatry
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Ephrem Fernandez | Gregory Boyle
2002
Journal of Pain
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Adrian Raine | Peter Venables | Sarnoff Mednick | Kjetil Mellingen
2001
Schizophrenia Research
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Drew Westen | Kate Morrison
2001
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
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