Overview
Comprehensive coverage of a major aspect of personality Includes emerging evolutionary viewpoints
Covers assessment issues and research design
Explores personality disorders
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About this book
This Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of individual differences within the domain of personality, with major sub-topics including assessment and research design, taxonomy, biological factors, evolutionary evidence, motivation, cognition and emotion, as well as gender differences, cultural considerations, and personality disorders. It is an up-to-date reference for this increasingly important area and a key resource for those who study intelligence, personality, motivation, aptitude and their variations within members of a group.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Hill is a member of the faculty in the Department of Psychology at Oakland University, where he is the director of the Self and Interpersonal relationships Laboratory. He has published nearly 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and books. His primary research interests are in self-esteem, narcissism, cognitive representations of the self, and interpersonal relationships. He currently serves as Associate Editor for Self and Identity, Journal of Personality Assessment and Evolutionary Psychological Science.
Dr. Shackelford is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Oakland University, where he is Co-Director of the Evolutionary Psychology Lab. and where he created new doctorate and masters programs. He has published about 300 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, and has edited fourteen volumes. In all, his work has been cited over 10,000 times.Â
His research focus is on sexual conflict in humans, and he has served as Editor of the online journal Evolutionary Psychology and is the current editor of the new Springer journal, Evolutionary Psychological Science.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences
Editors: Virgil Zeigler-Hill, Todd K. Shackelford
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Behavioral Science and Psychology, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-28099-8Due: 11 July 2021
Topics: Psychology, general, Psychiatry, Anthropology
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