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The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Individual Differences

ISBN: 978-1-444-34311-3

March 2011

Wiley-Blackwell

848 pages

Description
The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Individual Differences provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of recent research, current perspectives, practical applications, and likely future developments in individual differences. 
  • Brings together the work of the top global researchers within the area of individual differences, including Philip L. Ackerman, Ian J. Deary, Ed Diener, Robert Hogan, Deniz S. Ones and Dean Keith Simonton
  • Covers methodological, theoretical and paradigm changes in the area of individual differences
  • Individual chapters cover core areas of individual differences including personality and intelligence, biological causes of individual differences, and creativity and emotional intelligence 
About the Author
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is Reader at Goldsmiths College, London, Research Fellow at University College London and Visiting Professor at New York University. He is a renowned expert in personality, intelligence, human performance and psychometrics. Chamorro-Premuzic has published more than 85 scientific articles and authored four books, covering a wide range of social and applied topics. 

Sophie von Stumm is an award-winning young scientist who completed her postgraduate training at the University of Edinburgh and Goldsmiths College. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chichester. Her research interests are deeply rooted in the field of individual differences with a focus on intelligence-personality associations in the context of 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, amongst 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