Includes bibliographical references.

Part I. Research Methods: What do we know when we know a person? / Dan P. McAdams -- A simple, general-purpose display of magnitude of experimental effect / Robert Rosenthal and Donald B. Rubin -- Construct validity in psychological tests / Lee J. Cronbach and Paul E. Meehl -- Knowing me, knowing you: the accuracy and unique predictive validity of self-ratings and other-ratings of daily behavior / Simine Vazire and Matthias R. Mehl -- Part II. The trait Approach to Personality: What is a trait of personality? / Gordon W. Allport -- Consistency and specificity of behavior / Walter Mischel -- Profiting from controversy: lessons from the person-situation debate / Douglas T. Kenrick and David C. Funder -- The five-factor theory of personality / Robert R. McCrae and Paul T. Costa Jr. -- Personality trait change in adulthood / Brent W. Roberts and Daniel Mroczek -- Personality and the prediction of consequential outcomes / Daniel J. Ozer and Veronica Benet-Martinez -- Part III. Biological Approaches to Personality: Testosterone differences among college fraternities: well-behaved vs. rambunctious / James M. Dabbs Jr., Marian F. Hargroves and Colleen Heusel -- Functional brain mapping of extraversion and neuroticism: learning from individual differences in emotion processing / Turhan Canli -- Genetic and environmental influences on observed personality: evidence from the German Observational Study of Adult Twins / Peter Borkenau, Rainer Riemann, Alois Angleitner, and Frank M. Spinath -- Influence of life stress on depression: moderation by a polymorphism in the 5-HTT gene / Avshalom Caspi [and others] -- Personality in non-human animals / Samuel D. Gosling -- Sex differences in jealousy: evolution, physiology, and psychology / David M. Buss, Randy J. Larsen, Drew Westen, and Jennifer Semmelroth -- The origins of sex differences in human behavior: evolved dispositions vs. social roles / Alice H. Eagly and Wendy Wood -- My genome, my self / Steven Pinker -- Part IV. The Psychoanalytic Approach to Personality: Lecture XXXI: the dissection of the psychical personality / Sigmund Freud -- Psychological types / Carl Jung -- The distrust between the sexes / Karen Horney -- Eight stages of man / Erik Erikson -- Freudian defense mechanisms and empirical findings in modern social psychology: reaction formation, projection, displacement, undoing, isolation, sublimation, and denial / Roy F. Baumeister, Karen Dale, and Kristin L. Sommer -- Individual differences in emotional memory: adult attachment and long-term memory for child sexual abuse / Robin S. Edelstein [and others] -- Womb envy, testyria, and breast castration anxiety: what if Freud were female? / Gloria Steinem -- Part V. Humanistic Approaches to Personality: A theory of human motivation / Abraham H. Maslow -- Some observations on the organization of personality / Carl R. Rogers -- If we are so rich, why aren't we happy? / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Pursuing happiness: the architecture of sustainable change / Sonja Lyubomirsky, Kennon M. Sheldon, and David Schkade -- Shared virtue : the convergence of valued human strengths across culture and history / Katherine Dahlsgaard, Christopher Peterson, and Martin E.P. Seligman -- Living well: a self-determination theory perspective on eudaimonia / Richard M. Ryan, Veronika Huta, and Edward L. Deci -- Part VI. Cross-Cultural Approaches to Personality: The self and social behavior of differing cultural contexts / Harry C. Triandis -- A collective fear of the collective: implications for selves and theories of selves / Hazel Rose Markus and Shinobu Kitayama -- Variation among European Americans in emotional facial expressions / Jeanne L. Tsai and Yulia Chentsowa-Dutton -- Are Mexicans more or less sociable then Americans? Insights from a naturalistic observation study / Nairan Ramirez-Esparza, Matthias R. Mehl, Javir Alvarez-aaaaabermudez, and James W. Pennebaker -- Human nature and culture : a trait perspective / Robert R. McCrue -- Personality in culture: a Neo-Allportian view / Shigehiro Oishi -- Part VII. Process Approaches to Personality: Learning, Motivation, nd the Self: Why organisms behave / B.F. Skinner -- The self system in reciprocal determinism / Albert Bandura -- Personality coherence and dispositions in a cognitive-affective personality system (CAPS) approach / Walter Mischel -- The independent effects of goal contents and motives on well-being: it's both what you pursue and why you purse it / Kennon M. Sheldon, Richard M. Ryan, Edward L. Deci, and Tim Kasser: Self-esteem, narcissism, and aggression: does violence result from low self-esteem or from threatened egotism? / Roy F. Baumeister, Brad J. Bushman, and W. Keith Campbell -- Low self-esteem is related to aggression, antisocial behavior, and delinquency / M. Bent Donnellan, Kali H. Trzesniewski, Richard W. Robins, Terrie E. Moffitt, and Avshalom Caspi -- Person perception and personality pathology / Thomas F. Oltmanns, and Eric Turkheimer -- Self-knowledge of an Amnesic patient: toward a neuropsychology of personality and social psychology / Stanley B. Klein, Judith Loftus, and John F. Kihlstrom.

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