The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology brings together research on the biological, developmental, cognitive, and social dimensions of personality. Edited by Philip J. Corr and Gerald Matthews, this first-edition reference examines measurement, theory, findings, and applications for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners studying individual differences across psychological disciplines.
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Personality is examined at several levels in this edited research handbook, from genes and brain systems to relationships and political attitudes. Chapters introduce scientific foundations, compare principal theories and findings, and identify questions for future work. Molecular genetics and functional neuroimaging appear alongside psychometric and social-cognitive approaches in the volume's 2009 research context.
The coverage includes development across the lifespan, personality taxonomies, assessment, attention, memory, motivation, and emotional processes. Clinical links and applications in occupational, health, and forensic psychology extend the discussion beyond basic research. Graduate readers can consult it for an introduction to particular areas, while researchers can compare how different traditions explain and investigate individual differences.
An edited reference that refuses to reduce personality to one explanation. Corr and Matthews assemble biological, developmental, cognitive, and social strands, then connect measurement and theory to clinical, occupational, health, and forensic use. Chapters also mark where questions remain open.
The handbook works at several levels at once. Genes and brain systems sit beside relationships and political attitudes, and psychometric traditions are placed next to social-cognitive ones. Chapters review what is known, compare competing accounts, and point to unresolved problems. Coverage runs through development across the lifespan, taxonomies of traits, assessment methods, attention, memory, motivation, and emotion. Applied sections show how individual differences matter in clinical, workplace, health, and legal settings. Graduate students can sample an area; researchers can set traditions against each other. The 2009 context includes molecular genetics and functional neuroimaging alongside established approaches.
The handbook treats personality as a phenomenon that shows up in genes, brains, behavior, relationships, and culture. No single level is granted final authority.
Molecular genetics and functional neuroimaging appear as tools for asking how individual differences are embodied. The coverage is cautious about moving from a correlate to a cause.
Personality is followed across the lifespan, and taxonomies organize the traits under discussion. Stability and change are both treated as findings to explain rather than assumptions.
Psychometric questions sit at the center because claims about personality depend on how it is measured. Reliability, validity, and the choice of instrument constrain what can be concluded.
Attention, memory, motivation, and emotion connect disposition to process. These chapters ask how a trait becomes a pattern of noticing, remembering, and responding.
Clinical, occupational, health, and forensic applications show what individual-difference research is used for. Each setting raises its own questions about prediction and fairness.
Graduate students, researchers, and practitioners studying individual differences.
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The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology brings together research on the biological, developmental, cognitive, and social dimensions of personality. Edited by Philip J. Corr and Gerald Matthews, this first-edition reference examines measurement, theory, findings, and applications for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners studying individual differences across psychological disciplines.
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Graduate students, researchers, and practitioners studying individual differences.
Yes. This page includes an original study guide with six thematic sections, key takeaways, and a topic map for structured reading.
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