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Foundations of personality /

Differences between people are a fascinating and long-standing area of psychological inquiry. However, previous research has largely been confined to studies at the descriptive level. This book tries to explain individual difference, rather than merely describe them. Explanations are derived from tw...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Basic Issues in Personality: European-American Workshop on Biological and Social Approaches to Individuality Oisterwijk, Netherlands, SpringerLink (Online service), North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division
Other Authors: Hettema, Joop (Editor), Deary, Ian J. (Editor)
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Springer Science+Business Media, [1993]
Series:NATO ASI series. Behavioural and social sciences ; no. 72.
Subjects:
Personality > Congresses.
Nature and nurture > Congresses.
Genetics, Behavioral > Congresses.
Social Environment > Congresses.
Persoonlijkheid.
Nature and nurture.
Personality.
Electronic books.
Conference proceedings.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Biological and Social Approaches to Individuality: Towards a Common Paradigm
  • - Genetic and Environmental Influences on Adult Personality: Evaluating the Evidence
  • - Behavioral Genetics: Variables, Mechanisms and Disorders: Commentary
  • - From DNA to Social Behaviour: Conditions for a Paradigm of Personality Research
  • - The Genes and P: Commentary
  • - Reply to J. C. Loehlin
  • - Personality from Top (Traits) to Bottom (Genetics) with Stops at Each Level Between
  • - Identifying Basic Dimensions of Personality: Commentary
  • - The Location of the Regulative Theory of Temperament (RTT) Among Other Temperament Theories
  • - The Regulatory Theory of Temperament: The View from the Top: Commentary
  • - Biosocial Adaptation: A Strategic-Tactical Approach to Individuality
  • - Strategies and Tactics for Person-Situation Interaction: Commentary
  • - Strategic Individual Differences: The Role of Personality in Creating and Solving Adaptive Problems
  • - Evolutionary Psychology: Where to?: Commentary
  • - Reply to A. Angleitner
  • - Linking Biological and Social Approaches to Personality: Evolution, Gender, and Cognition
  • - Can Biology Help Personality?: Commentary
  • - Marginal Deviations, Aggregate Effects, Disruption of Continuity, and Deviation Amplifying Mechanisms
  • - The Long Road From Marginal Deviations to Major Effects: Commentary
  • - Reply to I. Mervielde
  • - Personality: An Interactional Perspective
  • - Have Trait Psychologists Been Ignorant of Context?: Commentary.