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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…mehr

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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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Virgil Zeigler-Hill, PhD, is a Professor and the Director of Graduate Training for the Department of Psychology at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He earned his Ph.D. in social-personality from the University of Oklahoma in 2004 under the guidance of Dr. Carolin J. Showers. His primary research interests are in three interrelated areas: (1) dark personality features (e.g., narcissism, spitefulness), (2) self-esteem, and (3) interpersonal relationships. He is the author of more than 180 publications including edited volumes such as The Dark Side of Personality, Self-Esteem, Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Psychology, and The Evolution of Psychopathology. He is currently an associate editor for the Journal of Personality, Journal of Personality Assessment, and Self and Identity as well as serving as a co-editor for the Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Todd K. Shackelford received his Ph.D. in evolutionary psychology in 1997 from the University of Texas at Austin. Since 2010, he is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, where he is Co-Director of the Evolutionary Psychology Lab. In 2016, he was appointed Distinguished Professor by the Oakland University Board of Trustees. Shackelford has published around 250 journal articles and his work has been cited about 15,000 times. Much of Shackelford's research addresses sexual conflict between men and women, with a special focus on testing hypotheses derived from sperm competition theory. Since 2006, Shackelford has served as editor of the journal Evolutionary Psychology, and in 2014 founded the journal Evolutionary Psychological Science as Editor-in-Chief.