Personality Processes
Northwestern University
Key words: Personality traits, evolution, behavior genetics, biological bases, affect
Prepared as a chapter for the Annual Review of Psychology, 1995.
Adapted for the web as part of an experimental Personality Project to link personality theories and theorists together through out the web. This document will gradually be expanded to take advantage of other web sites as time permits.
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- RECENT TRENDS IN PERSONALITY AND RELATED FIELDS
- ALL PEOPLE ARE THE SAME: THE STUDY OF SPECIES TYPICAL BEHAVIOR
- SOME PEOPLE ARE THE SAME: THE STUDY OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES
- Trait based differences and similarities
- Cognitive abilities versus affective-temperamental traits
- Descriptive taxonomies versus causal theory
- Causal models of individual differences
- Affective and cognitive processes--how traits relate to states
- Life satisfaction, identity, and death
- Situational based differences and similarities
- Trait by Situation Interactions
- NO PERSON IS THE SAME: THE STUDY OF UNIQUE PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR
- FUTURE DIRECTIONS: PROMISES AND CHALLENGES
Last modified April 13, 1996 return to the Personality Project