Colin Cooper

Individual Differences and Personality (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Individual Differences and Personality provides a student-friendly introduction to both classic and cutting-edge research into personality, mood, motivation, and intelligence, and their applications.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 542
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429602023
• Artikelnr.: 59949089

Autorenporträt

Colin Cooper lectured in Psychology at Queen's University Belfast for 20 years before emigrating to Canada. He is the author of several books on personality, intelligence and psychological measurement and of numerous research articles. He was elected president of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences from 2021-2023.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction to individual differences
2. Personality by introspection
3. Measuring individual differences
4. Depth psychology
5. Factor analysis
6. Broad trait theories of personality
7. Emotional intelligence
8. Reliability ans validity of psychological tests
9. Narrow personality traits
10. Sub-clinical and antisocial personality traits
11. Biological, cognitive and social bases of personality
12. Structure and measurement of abilities
13. Ability processes
14. Personality and ability over time
15. Environmental and genetic determinants of personality and abilities
16. Psychology of mood and motivation
17. Applications in health, clinical, counselling and forensic psychology
18. Applications to education, work and sport
19. Performing and interpreting factor analyses
20. Constructing a test
21. Problems with tests
22. Integrations and conclusions
Appendix A Correlations
Appendix B Code of fair testing practices in education
Index