Publisher's Synopsis
Examines the advances in the field of personality psychology and related ideas. This edition includes discoveries from behaviour genetics, social evolutionary, trait theory and the "Big Five", social cognitive theory, cognitive neuroscience and findings in personality and social psychology.;A substantive change comes from the collaboration with Robert Plomin, of thes Institute of Psychiatry in London, who contributed materials which provide a state-of-the-art perspective on the role of genetics in human personality.
