Personality Traits, 2nd Edition - Hardcover

Matthews, Gerald; Deary, Ian J.; Whiteman, Martha C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521831075 ISBN 13: 9780521831079

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

The authors have updated the text throughout this second edition of an essential text for students and researchers concerned with personality and differential psychology. Incorporating the latest research in the field, three new chapters on personality across the lifespan, health and applications of personality assessment have been added. The new format of the book, including many additional features, is designed to make it even more accessible and reader friendly. First Edition Hb (1998): 0-521-49739-6 First Edition Pb (1998): 0-521-49759-0

About this title

Book Description:

This second edition of the bestselling textbook Personality Traits is an essential text for students doing courses in personality and differential psychology. It also provides researchers and practitioners with a coherent, up-to-date overview of this important area. The authors have updated the volume throughout, incorporating the latest research in the field, and added three new chapters on personality across the lifespan, health and applications of personality assessment. The new format of the book, including many additional features, is designed to make it even more accessible and reader friendly.

About the Author:

Gerald Matthews is Professor of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati and has previously held faculty positions at the Universities of Aston and Dundee. He has co-authored several volumes, including Attention and Emotion: A Clinical Perspective (1994) which won the 1998 British Psychological Society Book Award, and has published many articles in the area of personality research.

Ian J. Deary is Professor of Differential Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a registered medical practitioner and member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has written extensively on personality and intelligence and won the 2002 British Psychological Society Book Award for Looking Down on Human Intelligence (2000). He holds the Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award, 2002-2007.

Martha C. Whiteman is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. Her research within personality and public health sciences has been published in The Lancet, Psychosomatic Medicine and Personality and Individual Differences.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0521831075
• ISBN 13: 9780521831079
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 518