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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.
List of contents
Five-Factor Narcissism Inventory.- Introjected Regulation.- Parental Investment.- Personal Causation as Basic Need.- Personality and Warfare.- Security Values.- Drive Theory.- Moving Toward People.- Reality Principle.- Chinese Personality Assessment Invent
ory.- Hogan Development Survey.- Self-Report Psychopathy Scale.- Bullying.- Locus of Control.- Dark Personality Features and Employment.- Nucleus Acumbens.- Oxytocin.- Trait Specificity.- Unconditional Positive Regard.- Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.
About the author
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.
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.
Summary
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.
