Andrzej Eliasz is Professor and President of the Warsaw School of Social Psychology, PolandSarah Hampson is Professor of Psychology and Health in the Department of Psychology, the University of Surrey, UK, and Senior Scientist, Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, Oregon, USA Boele de Raad is Professor in the Faculty of Behaviour and Social Sciences at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands

• A. Eliasz, S.E. Hampson, B. de Raad, Editors Preface. M. W. Eysenck, Cognitive Approaches to Trait Anxiety. J. Strealau, B. Zawadzki, The Functional Significance of Temperament Empirically Tested: Data Based on Hypotheses Derived from the Regulative Theory of Temperament. J. Hettama, Personality and Information Processing: Biological Foundations of Thought and Action. B. Szymura, E. Necka, Three Superfactors of Personality and Three Aspects of Attention. P.L. Ackerman, Personality, Trait Complexes, and Adult Intelligence. N. Brody, Phenotypes and Genotypes of Personality and Intelligence: Similarities and Differences. Timothy Church, Marcia S. Katigbak, Personality Structure Across Cultures: Indigenous and Cross-cultural Perspectives, B. de Raad, Situations that Matter to Personality.

Advances in Personality Psychology covers topics that are at the forefront of modern personality research. The chapter authors are eminent researchers who, in this volume, have set out many of the central issues that personality research will need to explore further in the years ahead.Martha C. Whiteman, Lecturer in Psychology at the University of EdinburghThis book follows up nicely on the first volume in the Advances in Personality Psychology series. It provides first-rate reviews of some of the research areas most salient in contemporary personality research.Gerald Matthews, Professor of Psychology, University of Cincinnati