Personality and Individual Differences (BPS Textbooks in Psychology) - Softcover

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Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is a lecturer in psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has published more than 30 scientific papers on personality and intelligence. His first book, Personality and Intellectual Competence, co-authored with Adrian Furnham, was published in 2005.

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Personality and Individual Differences is a state-of-the-art undergraduate textbook that covers the salient and recent literature on personality, intellectual ability, motivation, and other individual differences such as creativity, emotional intelligence, leadership, and vocational interests.

As well as introducing all topics relating to individual differences this book examines and discusses many important underlying issues, such as the psychometric approach to latent variables, validity, reliability, and correlations between constructs. An essential textbook for first-time as well as more advanced students of the discipline, Personality and Individual Differences provides grounding in all the major aspects of differential psychology.

In addition, the textbook is supported by a website containing instructor material, further web resources and electronic versions of chapters. Visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/personality for more information.