Individual Differences and Personality
- 1st Edition - July 30, 2007
- Author: Michael C. Ashton
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 4 9 8 9 - 7
Designed for upper level undergraduate and graduate level students inquiring about the psychology of personality and individual differences, this textbook focuses on the… Read more
Designed for upper level undergraduate and graduate level students inquiring about the psychology of personality and individual differences, this textbook focuses on the personality traits and related characteristics that make each person unique. Basic principles of personality measurement are explained and crucial scientific questions of personality psychology are examined via a reader-friendly style and various boxes of interesting asides to keep students’ attention.Unlike lower-level texts written from a historical perspective that concentrate solely on theory, this textbook summarizes and integrates the contemporary research available about individual differences.
- Emphasizes current research
Undergraduate and graduate level courses in personality.
Preface AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Basic Concepts in Psychological MeasurementChapter 2: Personality Traits and the Inventories That Measure ThemChapter 3: Personality Structure: Classifying Traits Chapter 4: Developmental Change and Stability of Personality TraitsChapter 5: Biological Bases of PersonalityChapter 6: Genetic and Environmental Influences on PersonalityChapter 7: The Evolution of Personality VariationChapter 8: Personality DisordersChapter 9: Personality and Life OutcomesChapter 10: Mental Ability Chapter 11: Religion and PoliticsChapter 12: SexualityConclusionReferences
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 30, 2007
- Language: English
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Michael C. Ashton
Michael C. Ashton is a professor of psychology at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario in 1998. As a grad student in the late 1990s, together with Kibeom Lee, he did some cross-cultural research to find out whether the “Big Five” personality dimensions found in North America could be recovered in other cultures. Using their own work and that of other researchers, they found that there were actually six personality dimensions. The “new” one was the H factor, or the Honesty-Humility Factor, was discovered and is now considered one of the six dimensions of human personality. In addition to the second edition of the textbook, Individual Differences and Personality, he is the author of numerous articles in scientific journals, and co-authored with Kibeom Lee The H Factor of Personality.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Psychology, Brock University, Ontario, Canada