The Scientific Study of Human Nature: Tribute to Hans J. Eysenck at Eighty

Foreword (J. Gray). General introduction. Hans Eysenck—the man, his friends and this book (H. Nyborg). Personality. The psychobiological basis of personality (M. Zuckerman). Hans Eysenck's personality dimensions: their number and nature (C.R. Brand). Individual differences in reactions to reinforcing stimuli are neither black nor white: to what extent are they Gray? (A.D. Pickering et al.). Temperament and personality: Eysenck's three superfactors as related to temperamental dimensions (J. Strelau, B. Zawadzki). Psychology and medicine (D.K.B. Nias). Psychoticism as a dimension of personality (S. Eysenck). Classical conditioning, arousal, and crime: a biosocial perspective (A. Raine). Crime and personality (G.H. Gudjonsson). Sex and personality (G.D. Wilson). Extraversion and impulsivity: the lost dimension? (W. Revelle). Intelligence. Introduction: Hans Eysenck and the study of intelligence (A.R. Jensen). The psychometrics of intelligence (A.R. Jensen). Behavioral genetic and biological approaches to intelligence (P.A. Vernon). Geographical variation in intelligence (R. Lynn). Intelligence and information processing (I.J. Deary). Malleability and change in intelligence (N. Brody). Further Eysenckian Interests. Introduction: Hans Eysenck—a man of many talents (H.B. Gibson). Classical conditioning and the role of personality (I. Martin). Eysenck's contribution to understanding psychopathology (G. Claridge). The psychophysics and psychophysiology of extraversion and arousal (R.M. Stelmack). (Im)pure genius—Psychoticism, intelligence, and creativity (J. P. Rushton). Molecular creativity, genius and madness (H. Nyborg). Eysenck's personality theory and organizational psychology (A. Furnham). Bursts of creativity and aberrant sunspot cycles: hypothetical covariations (S. Ertel). Graphology, astrology, and parapsychology (G.A. Dean et al.). Eysenck as teacher and mentor (A.R. Jensen). Epilog. Psychology as science (H. Nyborg). Author index. Subject index.