The Wiley-blackwell Handbook of Individual

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Individual Differences provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of recent research, current perspectives, practical applications, and likely future developments in individual differences. Brings together the work of the top global researchers within the area of individual differences, including Philip L. Ackerman, Ian J. Deary, Ed Diener, Robert Hogan, Deniz S. Ones and Dean Keith Simonton Covers methodological, theoretical and paradigm changes in the area of individual differences Individual chapters cover core areas of individual differences including personality and intelligence, biological causes of individual differences, and creativity and emotional intelligence

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is Reader at Goldsmiths, University of London, Research Fellow at University College London, and Visiting Professor at NYU in London. Chamorro-Premuzic has published more than 100 scientific articles and authored four books, including the textbook Personality and Individual Differences (also published by Wiley-Blackwell). He is a keynote speaker of the Institute of Economic Affairs and makes frequent media appearances in the UK and internationally.

Sophie von Stumm is an award-winning young scientist who completed her postgraduate training at the University of Edinburgh and Goldsmiths, University of London. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chichester. Her research interests focus on intelligence-personality associations in relation to educational, social, and health outcomes.

Adrian Furnham is currently Professor of Psychology at University College London. He has lectured widely abroad and held scholarships and visiting professorships at, among others, the University of New South Wales, the University of the West Indies, the University of Hong Kong, and the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Furnham is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and has written over 700 scientific papers and 60 books. He is on the editorial board of a number of international journals, as well as the past elected President of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences.

Preface
Individual differences: An up-to-date historical and methodological overview
Individual Differences and Differential Psychology: A brief history and prospect
Methodological Advances in Differential Psychology
Intelligence and Personality: Structure and Development
Personality
Personality Development Across the Life Span
Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory, Research, Applications and Future
The General Factor of Personality: Normal and Abnormal
Five Into One Doesn't Go: A Critique of the General Factor of Personality
Intelligence
The Nature and Structure of "Intelligence"
Re-visiting Intelligence-Personality Associations: Vindicating Intellectual Investment
Individual Differences in Cognitive Aging
Biological Causes of Individual Differences
Behavior Genetics
Molecular Genetic Aspects of Personality
Understanding Human Intelligence Imaging the Brain
Evolutionary psychology and individual differences
Individual Differences and real-world outcomes
Work
Individual Differences at Work
Leadership
Health, Longevity and Death
Cognitive Epidemiology: concepts, evidence, and future directions
Personality and Differences in Health and Longevity
Society
Personality and the laws of history
Individual differences and antisocial behaviour
& Intelligence and Social Inequality: Why the Biological Link?
Motivation and Vocational Interests
Goal Setting: A State Theory but Related to Traits
Personality and Approaches to Learning
Vocational Interests: The Road Less Traveled
Competence beyond IQ
Special Abilities
Exceptional Talent and Genius
Emotional Intelligence
Individual Differences in Creativity
Relationships and Subjective Well-being
Personality and Happiness: Predicting the Experience of Subjective Well-Being
Self-Esteem: Enduring Issues and Controversies
Love at first sight? Individual differences and the psychology of initial romantic attraction
Manifestations of Individual Differences in Physical and Virtual Environments
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