BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

CHAPTER 1: Who Am I? Understanding the Building Blocks of Personality

CHAPTER 2: Personality Traits: A Good Theory

CHAPTER 3: Personality Traits: Practical Matters

CHAPTER 4: Personality Assessment

CHAPTER 5: Self and Identity

CHAPTER 6: Genetics

CHAPTER 7: The Neuroscience of Personality

CHAPTER 8: Intrapsychic Foundations of Personality

CHAPTER 9:  Regulation and  Emotion: Self-Determination Theory

CHAPTER 10: Cognitive Foundations of Personality

CHAPTER 11: Gender and Personality

CHAPTER 12: Sexual Orientation: An Integrative Mini-Chapter

CHAPTER 13: Resilience: An Integrative Mini-Chapter

Chapter 1: Who Am I? Understanding the Building Blocks of Personality
What is Personality Psychology?
How do Psychologists Study Personality?
Research Methods Illustrated: A True Experiment
Then and Now: The Ethics of Research with People
 
Chapter 2: Personality Traits: A Good Theory

What is a Personality Trait?

What do we know about Personality From the Idiographic Approach?

What do we know about Personality from the Nomothetic Approach?

Research Methods Illustrated: Factory Analysis

The Great Nomothetic Search for Universal Principles of Personality

Then and Now: The Four Temperaments and the Five Factors

 
Chapter 3: Personality Traits: Practical Matters

What's Missing from the Five Factors?

The Five Factors in other cultures

Research Methods Illustrated: Triangulation and Types of Data

Expression of Traits in Everyday Life

The Personality of Everyday Life: What does your online presence say about your personality?

Personality Development Over the Life Span: Continuity, Change, and Coherence

Then and Now: The Grant Study of Harvard Graduates

 
Chapter 4: Personality Assessment

What makes a Good Personality Test?

Research Methods Illustrated: Is the Neo-Pi-R a Good Personality Test?

Personality Tests and Selection

The Personality of Everyday Life: What can they ask you on a job interview?

Then and Now: Personality Assessment and Matchmaking

 
Chapter 5: Self and Identity

Self-Concept

Then and Now: The Self

The Personality of Everday Life: Shooting Yourself in the Foot to Protect your Self-Esteem

Research Methods Illustrated: Qualitative Data and Content Analysis

 
Chapter 6: Genetics
Nature and Nurture as Allies
Genes and Environment as Co-Actors
Research Methods Illustrated: Correlational Designs I: The Logic of Adoption Studies and Twin Studies
Heritability of Common Personality Characteristics
Then and Now: The Science of Genetics
Genes and Environment: Adialectical Synthesis

The Personality of Everyday Life: What can Genetics do for us?
 
Chapter 7: The Neuroscience of Personality

What is neuroscience and how do we study it?

Research Methods Illustrated: Correlational Designs II: Scatterplots, Correlations, and the Alleged "Voodoo Science" of FMRI Studies

Neurological Theories of Personality

The Personality of Everday Life: Personality and the Guessing Penalty

Then and Now: Phrenology, the new Phrenology, and the Future of NeuroImaging&n