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| Personality and Personality Psychology | |
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| What Is Personality? | |
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| What's Ahead in This Book? | |
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| Personality Measurement | |
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| Correlation and Experimentation | |
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| Understanding Correlation | |
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| Cause and Correlation | |
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| The Need for Measurement | |
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| Reliability | |
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| Validity | |
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| Threats to Validity | |
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| Social Desirability | |
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| Varieties of Personalities Measures | |
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| BFT | |
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| The Big Five Test | |
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| From Words to Traits: The Nature of Dispositions | |
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| Traits and Dispositions | |
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| Are Traits Mythical? | |
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| Situational Specificity | |
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| The Principle of Aggregation | |
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| Does Aggregation Solve the Situation-versus-Trait Debate? | |
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| Person-Situation Patterning | |
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| When Traits Predict behavior | |
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| Cross-Situational Aggregates | |
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| Longitudinal Continuity | |
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| Stability and Change in Adult Personality | |
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| The Big Five: Are We Finished? | |
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| The Lexical Hypothesis | |
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| Organizing the Lexicon | |
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| Factor Analysis | |
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| What Do We Know About the Big Five? | |
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| Beyond the Big Five | |
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| Genetic and Environmental Influences | |
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| The Concept of Heritability | |
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| Methodological Issues in the Study of Genetic and Environmental Research | |
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| Types Of Genetic and Environmental Influences | |
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| Results of Twin and Family Studies: Personality Traits | |
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| Results of Twin and Adoption Studies: Attitudes | |
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| Results of Twin and Adoption Studies: Intelligence | |
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| Intelligence and Personality Compared | |
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| Do Parents Influence Personality and Intelligence? | |
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| Implications of Research on Genetic and Environmental Influences | |
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| The Future | |
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| Personality and the Brain | |
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| Direct and Indirect Biological Influences | |
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| Studying Biological Contributions to Personality | |
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| Is a Biological Role in Personality Plausible? | |
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| Extraversion | |
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| Neuroticism | |
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| Hemispheric Asymmetry and Individual Differences in Emotions | |
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| Temperament in Childhood | |
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| Change and Stability in Temperament | |
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| Childhood Temperament and Adult Personality | |
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| Environment and Biology in Temperament | |
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| Gender Differences | |
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| Personality and Evolution | |
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| Individuality and Human Nature | |
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| What Is Evolutionary Psychology? | |
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| The Nature of Human Nature | |
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| "Why?" Questions | |
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| How Evolution Works | |
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| Why Is Sugar Sweet? | |
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| The Concept of Fitness | |
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| Sexual Selection | |
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| Testing Evolutionary Hypotheses: Sex Differences in the Psychology of Mating | |
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| Is It Convincing? Evolutionary Analysis of Jealousy | |
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| Considerations and Caveats | |
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| Gender Differences and Similarities | |
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| Science and Politics | |
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| Motives and Goals | |
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| Expectancy-Value Theory | |
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| What Are People's Motives? | |
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| Freud's Theory of Motivation | |
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| Henry Murray | |
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| Contemporary Research on Needs | |
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| Motive Incentives | |
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| Achievement Motivation | |
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| Implicit and Self-attributed Motives | |
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| Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation | |
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| Power Motivation | |
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| Affiliation and Intimacy Motives | |
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| Content Analysis of Archival Data | |
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| Goals | |
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| Personal Strivings | |
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| Life Tasks | |
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| Motives, Goals, and Traits | |
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| Unconscious Processes | |
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| Acts and Reasons: Can We Explain Why We Do What We Do? | |
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| Responses and Awareness | |
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| Conscious and Unconscious Processes Compared | |
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| The Unconscious and Personality | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Cognitive Form | |
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| Intelligence as a Dimension of Personality | |
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| The Social Relevance of Intelligence | |
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| Our Thoughts, Our Feelings, Our Selves | |
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| Self-Esteem | |
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| Attributions | |
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| Self-efficacy | |
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| Self- consciousness | |
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| The Self in the Social Context | |
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| Cognition and Affect | |
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| Concluding Thoughts | |
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| Applications | |
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| Personality and Therapy | |
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| Personality and Work | |
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| Personality and Health | |
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| Conclusion: Personality in the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Biological Integration | |
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| Cross- method Integrations | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |