An Introduction to Personality, Individual Differences and Intelligence: Edition 3

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About this ebook

What does it mean to have a personality? Is emotional intelligence a kind of intelligence?

Learn the answers to these questions, as well as everything you need to know about personality, intelligence, and individual differences in the third edition of this clear and accessible textbook. From natural selection to intelligence tests, and from personality disorders to the concept of IQ, the panoramic coverage of this field makes this textbook essential reading for any psychology student on a personality and individual differences course.

New to this edition:

· Increased coverage of intelligence

· ‘Key Theorists’ feature

· Discussion questions moved to end-of-chapter to enable in-text assessment

Nick Haslam is Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Luke Smillie is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne and director of the Personality Processes Lab.

About the author

Luke Smillie is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne and director of the Personality Processes Lab. He received his PhD from the University of Queensland and completed postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of London. He has published over 100 journal articles and book chapters on a range of topics in personality, including neurobiological and motivational accounts of individual differences, the correlates and consequences of extraversion and other basic traits, and the links between personality and social behaviour. He is an Associate Editor at both the Journal of Personality and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences.

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