Advances in Personality Science

'Clearly summarizing the most recent, original research in personality, this volume will permit students as well as investigators to appreciate the areas of consensus as well as the sharp controversies in this vital domain of inquiry.' - Jerome Kagan, Department of Psychology, Harvard University 'The study of individual differences is undergoing a similar revolution to the one that recently transformed cognitive psychology into cognitive neuroscience. New methods involving unconscious measures of learning, genetics, and brain imaging allow us to probe the developing mechanisms of personality at many levels. This remarkable volume allows the reader to share in the dramatic changes that are changing the study of personality, while not losing sight of the cultural and evolutionary contexts in which individuals develop.' - Michael I. Posner, PhD, Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill-Cornell University Medical College

Daniel Cervone, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has been a visiting faculty member at the University of Washington and the University of Rome, La Sapienza, ' and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. His publications include "The Coherence of Personality" (coedited with Yuichi Shoda). Walter Mischel, PhD, is the Robert Johnston Niven Professor of Humane Letters in Psychology at Columbia University. He also has held academic appointments at the University of Colorado, Harvard University, and Stanford University, and has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. A recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association, Dr. Mischel currently serves as editor of the "Psychological Review."

Personality Science Cervone, Mischel Part I: Biological Bases of Individual Differences: Cortical Activity, Affect, and Motivation. In Search of the Genetic Engram of Personality Grigorenko. Individual Differences in Childhood Shyness: Origins, Malleability, and Developmental Course Schmidt, Fox. States, Traits, and Symptoms: Investigating the Neural Correlates of Emotion, Personality, and Psychopathology Heller, Schmidtke, Nitschke, Koven, Miller. Incentive and Threat Reactivity: Relations with Anterior Cortical Activity Sutton. Part II: Personality Development in its Social Context. Models of Development Lewis. Evolutionary and Developmental Perspectives on the Agentic Self Hawley, Little. Birth Cohort, Social Change, and Personality: The Interplay of Dysphoria and Individualism in the 20th Century Twenge. Looking Backward: Changes in the Mean Levels of Personality Traits from 80 to 12 Costa, McCrae. Part III: Personality as a Complex System: Social- Cognitive and Affective Dynamics. What Remains Invariant?: Finding Order within a Person's Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors across Situations Shoda, LeeTiernan. Integration and Compartmentalization: A Model of Self-Structure and Self-Change Showers. The Emergence of Personality: Personal Stability through Interpersonal Synchronization Nowak, Vallacher, Zochowski.