About the Book
Personality and Individual Differences, published in association with the British Psychological Society, is a state-of-the-art undergraduate textbook that provides a basis in all the major aspects of differential psychology.
This essential undergraduate textbook:
- Covers the salient and recent literature on personality, intellectual ability, motivation, and other individual differences such as creativity, emotional intelligence, leadership, and vocational interests
- Is packed with real life examples and controversies in the field, ideal to get students thinking about the applications of personality and individual differences
- Introduces all topics of individual differences as well as important underlying issues, such as the psychometric approach to latent variables, validity, reliability, and correlations between constructs
- Features easily accessible 'classic' references at the end of each chapter, in addition to further reading suggestions
- Forms a platform from which to elaborate, discuss, and follow up research.