Personality and Individual Differences

Personality and Individual Differences covers the salient and recent literature on personality, intellectual ability, motivation, and other individual differences such as creativity, leadership and emotional intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences provides grounding in all the major aspects of differential psychology.

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- 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

- An essential textbook for all first-time students of the topic, providing a grounding in all the major aspects of the field, and a platform from which to elaborate, discuss, and follow up research

- Supported by a website containing instructor material, further web resources and electronic versions of chapters. Visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/personality for more information