Virgil Zeigler-Hill & Todd K. Shackelford 
The SAGE Handbook of Personality and Individual Differences 

The examination of personality and individual differences is a major field of research in the modern discipline of psychology. Concerned with the ways humans develop an organised set of characteristics to shape themselves and the world around them, it is a study of how people come to be ‘different’ and ‘similar’ to others, on both an individual and a cultural level.




The SAGE Handbook of Personality and Individual Difference is the broadest and most comprehensive overview of the field to date. With outstanding contributions from leading scholars across the world, this is an invaluable resource for researchers and graduate students. Its three volumes cover all of the central concepts, domains and debates of this globally-expanding discipline, including the core theoretical perspectives, research strategies, as well as the origins, applications, and measurement of personality and individual difference.

Table of Content

VOLUME 01: THE SCIENCE OF PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

PART 01: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

Chapter 1: Trait Perspective – Robert R. Mc Crae

Chapter 2: Personality in Nonhuman Animals: Comparative Perspectives and Applications – Jennifer Vonk & Taryn Eaton

Chapter 3: Psychodynamic Perspective – Robert F. Bornstein, Crista E. Maracic, & Adam P. Natoli

Chapter 4: Transdisciplinary Philosophy-of-Science Paradigm for Research on Individuals: Foundations for the Science of Personality and Individual Differences – Jana Uher

Chapter 5: Socioanalytic Theory: Basic Concepts, Supporting Evidence, and Practical Implications – Robert Hogan & Gerhard Blickle

Chapter 6: Why Do Traits Come Together? The Underlying Trait and Network Approaches – René Mottus & Mike H. Allerhand

Chapter 7: Implicit Theories of Personality Across Development: Impacts on Coping, Resilience, and Mental Health – Jessica L. Schleider & Hans S. Schroder

Chapter 8: Contemporary Integrative Interpersonal Theory of Personality – Sindes Dawood, Emily A. Dowgwillo, Leila Z. Wu, & Aaron L. Pincus

Chapter 9: Evolutionary Perspectives on Personality and Individual Differences – Yael Sela & Nicole Barbaro

PART 02: RESEARCH STRATEGIES FOR STUDYING PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

Chapter 10: Measuring Personality Processes in the Lab and the Field – Cornelia Wrzus, Martin Quintus, & Anna Baumert

Chapter 11: Movement Pattern Analysis (MPA): Decoding Individual Differences in Embodied Decision Making – Brenda L. Connors, Carol-Lynne Moore, Richard Rende, & Timothy J. Colton

Chapter 12: The Various Roles of Replication in Scientific Research – Gregory Francis

Chapter 13: Implicit Measures – Michela Schröder-Abé & Ramzi Fatfouta

Chapter 14: Ambulatory Monitoring and Ambulatory Assessment in Personality Research – Mario Wenzel & Thomas Kubiak

Chapter 15: Behavioral Observation in the Study of Personality and Individual Differences – Christopher S. Nave, Michael G. Feeney, & R. Michael Furr

Chapter 16: What Do We Know When We LIWC a Person? Text Analysis as an Assessment Tool for Traits, Personal Concerns, and Life Stories – Cindy K. Chung & James W. Pennebaker

Chapter 17: Longitudinal Data Analysis for Personality Psychologists – Steffen Nestler

Chapter 18: The network structure of personality psychology: What the SAGE Handbook of Personality and Individual Differences tells us about the nature of the field – Kevin Lanning, Sonia Baron, & Gregory D. Webster

PART 03: THE MEASUREMENT OF PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDIUAL DIFFERENCES

Chapter 19: Pathological Personality Traits: The Movement Toward Dimensional Approaches to Psychopathology – Zara E. Wright & Robert F. Krueger

Chapter 20: Conceptualizing and Measuring Intelligence – Gilles E. Gignac

Chapter 21: Measurement of Situational Influences – Kai T. Horstmann, John F. Rauthmann, & Ryne A. Sherman

Chapter 22: Taxometric Analysis – David K. Marcus & Alyssa L. Norris

Chapter 23: Within-Person Variability in Narcissism – Miranda Giacomin & Christian H. Jordan

Chapter 24: Interpersonal Perception Models – Jeremy C. Biesanz

Chapter 25: Accounting for Socially Desirable Responding in Personality Assessment – Joyce H. L. Lui, Christopher T. Barry, & Katrina H. Mc Dougall

Chapter 26: Personality Assessment in Forensic Psychology – John F. Edens, David De Matteo, Shannon E. Kelley, & Shelby Arnold

Chapter 27: Measuring the Dark Side of Personality – Beth A. Visser & Stephanie Campbell

Chapter 28: Putting Time in a Wider Perspective: The Past, the Present, and the Future of Time Perspective Theory – Maciej Stolarski, Nicolas Fieulaine, & Philip G. Zimbardo

VOLUME 02: ORIGINS OF PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

PART 04: BIOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

Chapter 29: Hormonal Influences on Personality and Individual Differences – Jennifer Guinn Sellers & Thanh Thanh L. Nguyen

Chapter 30: Molecular Genetic Studies of Human Temperament – Kostas A. Papageorgiou & Vijeinika Vipulananthan

Chapter 31: Digit Ratio and Personality and Individual Differences – John T. Manning & Bernhard Fink

Chapter 32: Morningness-Eveningness and Sociosexuality from a Life-History Perspective – James Marvel-Coen, Coltan Scrivner, & Dario Maestripieri

Chapter 33: Toward the Molecular Basis of Personality – Turhan Canli

PART 05: DEVELOPMENTAL ORIGINS OF PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

Chapter 34: Individual Differences in Personal Narrative: Coherence, Autobiographical Reasoning, and Meaning Making – Theodore E. A. Waters & Christin Köber

Chapter 35: Developmental Profiles of Individuals with Psychopathic Traits: The Good, the Bad, and the Snake – Marie-Hélène Cigna, Jean-Pierre Guay, & Nathalie M. G. Fontaine

Chapter 36: Generational Changes in Self-Esteem and Narcissism – Eunike Wetzel, M. Brent Donnellan, Richard W. Robins, & Kali H. Trzesniewski

Chapter 37: The Role of the Family in Personality Development – Ugo Pace & Alessia Passanisi

Chapter 38: The Role of Peers in Personality Development – Julia Zimmermann & Anne K. Reitz

Chapter 39: Personality Development in Adolescence and Young Adulthood – Theo A. Klimstra, Jeroen Borghuis, & Wiebke Bleidorn

Chapter 40: The Development of Evolutionarily Adaptive Individual Differences: Children as Active Participants in Their Current and Future Survival – P. Douglas Sellers, II, Karin Machluf, & David F. Bjorklund

Chapter 41: Cross-Situational Consistency, Variability, and the Behavioral Signature – Marc A. Fournier & D. S. Moskowitz

Chapter 42: Transactions of Personality and the Social Environment During Development – Odilia M. Laceulle & Marcel A. G. van Aken

Chapter 43: Personality Development in Adulthood – Marcus Mund, Julia Zimmermann, & Franz J. Neyer

Chapter 44: Moral Character: Current Insights and Future Directions – Erik G. Helzer, R. Michael Furr, & Eranda Jayawickreme

PART 06: ENVIRONMENTAL ORIGINS OF PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

Chapter 45: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Personality and Individual Differences – Jüri Allik & Anu Realo

Chapter 46: Threat of Infectious Disease – Iris M. Wang, Nicholas M. Michalak, & Joshua M. Ackerman

Chapter 47: Sex Ratio Influences on Personality and Individual Differences – Daniel J. Kruger

Chapter 48: Individualism and Collectivism – Takeshi Hamamura, Karim Bettache, & Yi Xu

Chapter 49: Exploring Potential Causes of Individual Differences in the Expression of Neonatal Imitation – Siobhan Kennedy-Costantini & Mark Nielsen

Chapter 50: Individual Differences and Romantic Relationships: Bidirectional Influences on Self and Relational Processes – Brent A. Mattingly, Kevin P. Mc Intyre, & Dylan Faulkner Selterman

Chapter 51: The Gender Similarities Hypothesis – Jennifer L. Petersen

Chapter 52: Positive Personality Change Following Adversity – Eranda Jayawickreme & Corinne E. Zachry

Chapter 53: Self-Sacrifice for a Cause: A Review and an Integrative Model – Jocelyn J. Bélanger, Birga M. Schumpe, Bhavna Menon, Joanna Conda Ng, & No?mie Nociti

VOLUME 3: APPLICATIONS OF PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

PART 07: HEALTH AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT

Chapter 54: Personality Pathology – Michael P. Hengartner, Johannes Zimmermann, & Aidan G. C. Wright

Chapter 55: Personality and Depression – Daniel N. Klein, Megan C. Finsaas, Brandon L. Goldstein, Ellen M. Kessel, Daniel Kopala-Sibley, & Roman Kotov

Chapter 56: Emotion Regulation: Theoretical Models, Associated Outcomes, and Recent Advances – Kim L. Gratz, Laura J. Dixon, Elizabeth J. Kiel, & Matthew T. Tull

Chapter 57: Stress and Its Multiple Faces – Dusica Lecic Tosevski, Olivera Vukocic, Bojana Pejuskovic, & Nadja P. Maric

Chapter 58: Self-Regulation: An Integrative Review – Rick H. Hoyle & Erin K. Davisson

Chapter 59: Disease Avoidance: An Evolutionary Perspective on Personality and Individual Differences – Natalie J. Shook, Benjamin Oosterhoff, John A. Terrizzi, & Russ Clay

Chapter 60: Measurement and Theory in Disgust Sensitivity – Joshua M. Tybur & Annika K. Karinen

PART 08: SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

Chapter 61: Aggression – Wayne A. Warburton & Craig A. Anderson

Chapter 62: Agreeableness: A Three-Level Integration – William G. Graziano & Renée M. Tobin

Chapter 63: Social Hierarchies – Patricia H. Hawley & Andrew R. Bower

Chapter 64: Interpersonal Accuracy in Trait Judgments – Tera D. Letzring & David C. Funder

Chapter 65: Experiencing and Regulating Desire – Wilhelm Hofmann & Lotte van Dillen

Chapter 66: Externalizing, Psychopathy, and Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Parsimonious, Trait-Based Approach – David D. Vachon, Donald R. Lynam, Joshua D. Miller, & Robert F. Krueger

Chapter 67: The Personality Bases of Political Ideology and Behavior – Aleksandra Cichocka & Kristof Dhont

Chapter 68: Personality and Religiosity: Intuitions and Findings – Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

Chapter 69: Narcissism: A Social-Developmental Perspective – Sander Thomaes, Eddie Brummelman, & Constantine Sedikides

Chapter 70: Emotional Intelligence: What It Is, How It Can Be Measured and Increased, and Whether It Makes Us Successful and Happy – Astrid Schütz & Selda Koydemir

Chapter 71: Dispositional Envy: A Conceptual Review – Jens Lange, Lisa Blatz, & Jan Crusius

PART 09: PERSONALITY IN THE WORKPLACE

Chapter 72: Individual Differences in Vocational Interests – Julie Aitken Schermer

Chapter 73: Personnel Selection and Personality – Ioannis Nikolaou & Konstantina Foti

Chapter 74: The Expanded Criterion Space for Individual Differences and Leadership – Kim-Yin Chan & Jeffrey C. Kennedy

Chapter 75: Dark Personality and Features of Employment – Seth M. Spain & P. D. Harms

Chapter 76: Personality and Occupational Success – Adrian Furnham

Chapter 77: Economics and Well-Being – Bruno S. Frey & Christian Ulbrich

Chapter 78: Modernizing Intelligence in the Workplace: Recent Developments in Theory and Measurement of Intelligence at Work – Elliott Larson, Kenneth P. Yusko, Charles Scherbaum, Harold Goldstein, Juliet Aiken, & Lorren Oliver

Chapter 79: Mental Toughness: A Personality Trait that is Relevant across Achievement Contexts and Mental Health Outcomes – Kostas A. Papageorgiou, Julian Mutz, Ying Lin, & Peter J. Clough

About the author

Todd K. Shackelford received his Ph.D. in evolutionary psychology in 1997 from the University of Texas at Austin. Since 2010, he is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Oakland University (http://www.oakland.edu/psychology) in Rochester, Michigan, where he is Co-Director of the Evolutionary Psychology Lab (www.Todd KShackelford.com). In 2016, he was appointed Distinguished Professor by the Oakland University Board of Trustees. He led the founding of new Ph.D. and M.S. programs (http://www.oakland.edu/psychology/grad/), which launched in 2012. Shackelford has published around 300 journal articles and his work has been cited over 22, 000 times. Much of Shackelford’s research addresses sexual conflict between men and women, with a special focus on men’s physical, emotional, and sexual violence against their intimate partners. Since 2006, Shackelford has served as editor of the journal Evolutionary Psychology, and in 2014 founded the journal Evolutionary Psychological Science as Editor-in-Chief.