Personality, Individual Differences and Intelligence

Professor John Maltby is a Professor of Differential Psychology at the University of Leicester.Dr. Liz Day is a Senior Lecturer of Psychology at Sheffield Hallam University.Professor Ann Macaskill is an Emeritus Professor at Sheffield Hallam University. She is a Health Psychologist and trained in cognitive behavioural therapy.

• PART 1 Personality and Individual Differences Personality Theory in ContextThe Basis of the Psychoanalytic Approach to PersonalityDevelopments of Freudian TheorisingLearning Theory Perspectives on PersonalityCognitive Personality TheoriesHumanistic Personality TheoriesThe Trait Approach to PersonalityBiological Basis of Personality I: Genetic Heritability of Personality and Biological and Physiological Models of PersonalityBiological Basis of Personality II: Evolutionary Psychology and Animal Studies of PersonalityPART 2 Intelligence An Introduction to IntelligenceTheories and Measurement of IntelligenceHow Intelligence Tests are Used: What Questions Emerge from the Measurement of Intelligence?Heritability and Socially Defined Group Differences in IntelligenceIntelligence and the Self: Emotional Intelligence, Creativity, and Sex Differences in IntelligencePersonality and Intelligence in Education and WorkPART 3 Applications in Individual Differences OptimismIrrational BeliefsSocial Anxiety, Shyness, and EmbarrassmentInterpersonal RelationshipsSocial Attitudes and CultureWell-being and Personality DisordersIndividual Differences in Health and IllnessAn Introduction to Psychometric TestingGlossary References and further reading Index Publisher's Acknowledgement The following online chapters can be found on the website: Academic Argument and ThinkingStatistical TermsResearch Ethic

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