Personality Traits

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Cambridge University Press, Dec 4, 2003 - Psychology - 518 pages
The authors have updated the text throughout this second edition of an essential text for students and researchers concerned with personality and differential psychology. Incorporating the latest research in the field, three new chapters on personality across the lifespan, health and applications of personality assessment have been added. The new format of the book, including many additional features, is designed to make it even more accessible and reader friendly. First Edition Hb (1998): 0-521-49739-6 First Edition Pb (1998): 0-521-49759-0

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Personality Traits
Gerald Matthews,Ian J. Deary,Martha C. Whiteman
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About the author (2003)

Gerald Matthews is Professor of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati and has previously held faculty positions at the Universities of Aston and Dundee. He has co-authored several volumes, including Attention and Emotion: A Clinical Perspective (1994) which won the 1998 British Psychological Society Book Award, and has published many articles in the area of personality research.

Ian J. Deary is Professor of Differential Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a registered medical practitioner and member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has written extensively on personality and intelligence and won the 2002 British Psychological Society Book Award for Looking Down on Human Intelligence (2000). He holds the Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award, 2002-2007.

Martha C. Whiteman is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. Her research within personality and public health sciences has been published in The Lancet, Psychosomatic Medicine and Personality and Individual Differences.

Bibliographic information

TitlePersonality Traits
AuthorsGerald Matthews, Ian J. Deary, Martha C. Whiteman
Edition2, revised
PublisherCambridge University Press, 2003
ISBN0521831075, 9780521831079
Length518 pages
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Psychology / Personality
Psychology / Social Psychology
  
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