Research in the field of personality psychology has culminated in a radical departure. The result is Personality Psychology: Recent Trends and Emerging Directions. Drs. Buss and Cantor have compiled the innovative research of twenty-five young, outstanding personality psychologists to represent the recent expansion of issues in the fields. Advances in assessment have brought about more powerful methods and the explanatory tools for extending personality psychology beyond its traditional reaches into the areas of cognitive psychology, evolutionary biology, and sociology. This volume represents a significant landmark in the psychology of personality.
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I New Middle-Level Units in Personality Psychology.- 1 Personal Projects
Analysis: Trivial Pursuits, Magnificent Obsessions, and the Search for
Coherence.- 2 Exploring the Relations Between Motives and Traits: The Case of
Narcissism.- 3 Cognitive Strategies as Personality: Effectiveness,
Specificity, Flexibility, and Change.- 4 An Alternative Paradigm for Studying
the Accuracy of Person Perception: Simulated Personalities.- II New Forms of
Personality Coherence.- 5 On the Continuities and Consequences of
Personality: A Life-Course Perspective.- 6 Life Paths of Aggressive and
Withdrawn Children.- 7 Emotional Adaptation to Life Transitions: Early Impact
on Integrative Cognitive Processes.- 8 Performance Evaluation and Intrinsic
Motivation Processes: The Effects of Achievement Orientation and Rewards.- 9
The Problem of Lifes Meaning.- 10 Conditional Patterns, Transference, and
the Coherence of Personality Across Time.- 11 The Development of a Narrative
Identity.- III Advances in Assessment.- 12 A Process Approach to Personality
Psychology: Utilizing Time as a Facet of Data.- 13 Metatraits: Interitem
Variance as Personality Assessment.- 14 Socially Desirable Responding: Some
New Solutions to Old Problems.- 15 Accuracy in Personality Judgment and the
Dancing Bear.- 16 Construct Validity in Personality Assessment.- IV Advances
in Identifying the Structure of Personality.- 17 Why I Advocate the
Five-Factor Model: Joint Factor Analyses of the NEO-PI with Other
Instruments.- 18 The Optimal Level of Measurement for Personality
Constructs.- 19 Towards a Taxonomy of Personality Descriptors.- V Expansion
of Levels of Explanation in Personality.- 20 Identity Orientations and
Self-Interpretation.- 21 Using Traits to Construct Personality.- 22
Personality Theory and BehavioralGenetics: Contributions and Issues.- 23 A
Biosocial Perspective on Mates and Traits: Reuniting Personality and Social
Psychology.- 24 The Evolutionary History of Genetic Variation: An Emerging
Issue in the Behavioral Genetic Study of Personality.- 25 Levels of
Explanation in Personality Theory.
