The Personality Puzzle

A personality text with personality.

The Personality Puzzle continues to lead the market by captivating students with David Funder’s fresh, masterful writing. New material on important research areas such as development and health, streamlined presentation of methods and assessment, and added data graphics presented in a stunning new full-color design make the Seventh Edition an even richer teaching tool.

David C. Funder is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and former chair of the department at the University of California, Riverside. Winner of the 2009 Jack Block Award for Distinguished Research in Personality, he is a former editor of the Journal of Research in Personality, and a past president of the Association for Research in Personality as well as the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. He is best known for his research on personality judgment and has also published research on delay of gratification, attribution theory, the longitudinal course of personality development, and the psychological assessment of situations. He has taught personality psychology to undergraduates at Harvey Mudd College, Harvard University, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and continues to teach the course every year at the University of California, Riverside.