The Wiley–Blackwell Handbook of Individual Differences

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is Reader at Goldsmiths, University of London, Research Fellow at University College London, and Visiting Professor at NYU in London. Chamorro-Premuzic has published more than 100 scientific articles and authored four books, including the textbook Personality and Individual Differences (also published by Wiley-Blackwell). He is a keynote speaker of the Institute of Economic Affairs and makes frequent media appearances in the UK and internationally. Sophie von Stumm is an award-winning young scientist who completed her postgraduate training at the University of Edinburgh and Goldsmiths, University of London. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chichester. Her research interests focus on intelligence-personality associations in relation to educational, social, and health outcomes. Adrian Furnham is currently Professor of Psychology at University College London. He has lectured widely abroad and held scholarships and visiting professorships at, among others, the University of New South Wales, the University of the West Indies, the University of Hong Kong, and the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Furnham is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and has written over 700 scientific papers and 60 books. He is on the editorial board of a number of international journals, as well as the past elected President of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences.

List of Plates viii List of Figures ix List of Tables xii List of Contributors xiv Preface xvi List of Abbreviations xix Part I Individual Differences: An Up-to-Date Historical and Methodological Overview 1 1 Individual Differences and Differential Psychology: A Brief History and Prospect 3 William Revelle, Joshua Wilt, and David M. Condon 2 Methodological Advances in Differential Psychology 39 William Revelle, David M. Condon, and Joshua Wilt Part II Intelligence and Personality: Structure and Development 75 Section 1 Personality 77 3 Personality Development across the Life Span 77 Jaap J. A. Denissen, Marcel A. G. van Aken, and Brent W. Roberts 4 Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory, Research, Applications, and Future 101 Luke D. Smillie, Natalie J. Loxton, and Rachel E. Avery 5 The General Factor of Personality: Normal and Abnormal 132 J. Philippe Rushton and Paul Irwing 6 Five into One Doesn t Go: A Critique of the General Factor of Personality 162 Eamonn Ferguson, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Alan Pickering, and Alexander Weiss Section 2 Intelligence 187 7 The Nature and Structure of Intelligence 187 Charlie L. Reeve and Silvia Bonaccio 8 Re-Visiting Intelligence Personality Associations: Vindicating Intellectual Investment 217 Sophie von Stumm, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, and Phillip L. Ackerman 9 Individual Differences in Cognitive Aging 242 Elliot M. Tucker-Drob and Timothy A. Salthouse Part III Biological Causes of Individual Differences 269 10 Behavior Genetics 271 Frank M. Spinath and Wendy Johnson 11 Molecular Genetic Aspects of Personality 305 Alexander Strobel and Burkhard Brocke 12 Understanding Human Intelligence by Imaging the Brain 330 Roberto Colom and Paul M. Thompson 13 Evolutionary Psychology and Individual Differences 353 Satoshi Kanazawa Part IV Individual Differences and Real-World Outcomes 377 Section 1 Work 379 14 Individual Differences at Work 379 Deniz S. Ones and Chockalingam Viswesvaran 15 Leadership 408 Robert Hogan and Ghufran Ahmad Section 2 Health, Longevity, and Death 427 16 Cognitive Epidemiology: Concepts, Evidence, and Future Directions 427 Catherine M. Calvin, G. David Batty, and Ian J. Deary 17 Personality and Differences in Health and Longevity 461 Margaret L. Kern and Howard S. Friedman Section 3 Society 491 18 Personality and the Laws of History 491 Robert Hogan and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic 19 Individual Differences and Antisocial Behavior 512 Vincent Egan 20 Intelligence and Social Inequality: Why the Biological Link? 538 Linda S. Gottfredson Part V Motivation and Vocational Interests 577 21 Goal-Setting: A State Theory, but Related to Traits 579 Gary P. Latham, Deshani B. Ganegoda, and Edwin A. Locke 22 Personality and Approaches to Learning 588 Adrian Furnham 23 Vocational Interests: The Road Less Traveled 608 Patrick Ian Armstrong, Rong Su, and James Rounds Part VI Competence beyond IQ 633 Section 1 Special Abilities 635 24 Exceptional Talent and Genius 635 Dean Keith Simonton 25 Ability and Trait Emotional Intelligence 656 K. V. Petrides 26 Individual Differences in Creativity 679 James C. Kaufman Section 2 Relationships and Subjective Well-Being 699 27 Personality and Happiness: Predicting the Experience of Subjective Well-Being 699 William Pavot and Ed Diener 28 Self-Esteem: Enduring Issues and Controversies 718 M. Brent Donnellan, Kali H. Trzesniewski, and Richard W. Robins 29 Love at First Sight? Individual Differences and the Psychology of Initial Romantic Attraction 747 Viren Swami 30 Manifestations of Individual Differences in Physical and Virtual Environments 773 Lindsay T. Graham, Carson J. Sandy, and Samuel D. Gosling Index 801