The SAGE Handbook of Personality and Individual Differences
Volume II: Origins of Personality and Individual Differences
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The SAGE Handbook of Personality and Individual Differences
Volume II: Origins of Personality and Individual Differences
About This Book
The examination of personality and individual differences is a major field of research in the modern discipline of psychology. Concerned with the ways humans develop an organised set of characteristics to shape themselves and the world around them, it is a study of how people come to be 'different? and 'similar? to others, on both an individual and a cultural level. This volume focuses on the multiple origins of personality and individual differences, in chapters arranged across three thematic sections: Part 1: Biological Origins of Personality and Individual DifferencesPart 2: Developmental Origins of Personality and Individual DifferencesPart 3: Environmental Origins of Personality and Individual DifferencesWith outstanding contributions from leading scholars across the world, this is an invaluable resource for researchers and graduate students.
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Part I Biological Origins of Personality and Individual Differences
1 Hormonal Influences on Personality and Individual Differences
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Hormones and how they are measured
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Editorial Board
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Notes on the Editor and Contributors
- Part I Biological Origins of Personality and Individual Differences
- 1 Hormonal Influences on Personality and Individual Differences
- 2 Molecular Genetic Studies of Human Temperament
- 3 Digit Ratio and Personality and Individual Differences
- 4 Morningness–Eveningness and Sociosexuality from a Life History Perspective
- 5 Toward the Molecular Basis of Personality
- Part II Developmental Origins of Personality and Individual Differences
- 6 Individual Differences in Personal Narrative: Coherence, Autobiographical Reasoning and Meaning Making
- 7 Developmental Profiles of Individuals with Psychopathic Traits: The Good, the Bad and the Snake
- 8 Generational Changes in Self-Esteem and Narcissism
- 9 The Role of the Family in Personality Development
- 10 The Role of Peers in Personality Development
- 11 Personality Development in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
- 12 The Development of Evolutionarily Adaptive Individual Differences: Children as Active Participants in Their Current and Future Survival
- 13 Cross-Situational Consistency, Variability and the Behavioral Signature
- 14 Transactions of Personality and the Social Environment During Development
- 15 Personality Development in Adulthood
- 16 Moral Character: Current Insights and Future Directions
- Part III Environmental Origins of Personality and Individual Differences
- 17 Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Personality and Individual Differences
- 18 Threat of Infectious Disease
- 19 Sex Ratio Influences on Personality and Individual Differences
- 20 Individualism and Collectivism
- 21 Exploring Potential Causes of Individual Differences in the Expression of Neonatal Imitation
- 22 Individual Differences and Romantic Relationships: Bidirectional Influences on Self and Relational Processes
- 23 The Gender Similarities Hypothesis
- 24 Positive Personality Change Following Adversity
- 25 Self-Sacrifice for a Cause: A Review and an Integrative Model
- Index