Personality and individual differences: theory, assessment, and application

Chapter 1. Introduction / Niko Tiliopoulos / Simon Boag

Part A. Processes and Performance

Chapter 2. Integrating the Study of within- and between-Person Variability in Personality at Work / Nadin Beckmann / Amirali Minbashian / Robert E. Wood

Chapter 3. Deliberate Practice and the Trainability of Fluid Cognitive Functions / Damian P. Birney

Chapter 4. The Effects of Comparison Status and Individual Differences in Social Comparison Tendencies on the Experience of Schadenfreude / Jessica E. Franklin / Eugene Chekaluk

Chapter 5. Processing Style and Social Comparison Outcomes: Assimilation and Contrast Effects in Automatic Behaviour and Self-Evaluation / Lauren O'Driscoll / Eugene Chekaluk

Chapter 6. The Excitation Transfer Paradigm and Emotional Intelligence: Predicting Interpersonal Attraction / Madeleine Fraser / Simon Boag

Chapter 7. Take a Break: A Look at the Incubation Effect on Creativity / Gerry Pallier / Niko Tiliopoulos

Chapter 8. The Role of Personality in Learning Processes and Learning Outcomes in Applied Settings / Paul Ginns / Gregory Arief D. Liem / Andrew J. Martin

Chapter 9. Something about Metacognition: Self-Confidence Factor(s) in School-Aged Children / Sabina Kleitman / Karina Mak / Sarah Young / Phoebe Lau / David Livesey

Part B. Culture, Religion, and Spirituality

Chapter 10. Spiritual-Hypnosis Assisted Therapy: A New Culturally Sensitive Approach to the Treatment and Prevention of Mental Disorders / Luh Ketut Suryani

Chapter 11. Militant Extremist Mindset / Lazar Stankov / Gerard Saucier / Goran Knezevic

Chapter 12. Emotional Intelligence among Church Leaders: Applying the Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale within Newfrontiers / Leslie J. Francis / Andrew Ryland / Mandy Robbins

Chapter 13. Ominous Signs: Schizotypy and Religious Attachment / Lisa Hancock

Chapter 14. Sham Reasoning, Humpty Dumpty and the Burden of Proof / Fiona J. Hibberd

Chapter 15. Will Right-Brainers Rule the Future? / John Reid

Chapter 16. Cultural Perspectives on Personality and Personhood / Hoyt L. Edge / Cokorda Bagus Jaya Lesmana

Part C. Contributions to Clinical Psychology and Assessment

Chapter 17. Genetic Variation in DREW, Criminality, and Conduct Disorder / Tara M. Thompson / Marya Getchell / Britt af Klinteberg / Roman A. Koposov / Lars Oreland / Andrew J. Pakstis / Vladislav V. Ruchkin / Carolyn M. Yrigollen / Elena L. Grigorenko

Chapter 18. The Assessment of Depression, Anxiety and Tension/stress in Youth / Marianna Szabó

Chapter 19. Unconscious Schemas, Bulimic Tendencies and the Influence of Subliminal Abandonment and Unification Cues on Eating / Kathleen Mairet / Simon Boag

Chapter 20. Motivational Interviewing Changes the Treatment Trajectory of Group Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for Anxiety / Weiwen Yang / Esben Strodl

Chapter 21. What do Self-Report Measures of Disinhibition Really Measure? / Elliroma Gardiner / Chris J. Jackson

Chapter 22. Can Employers Screen Job Applicants for Potential White Collar Fraud Offenders? / Jennifer Keen / Julie Fitness

Chapter 23. Reflections on the Factor Structure of the Occupational Stress Inventory-Revised / Richard E. Hicks

Chapter 24. Introducing the YWEDO Online Cognitive Laboratory / Chris J. Jackson

Part D. Developments in Theory and Structure

Chapter 25. Six Solutions to the Circular Nature of Trait Psychology / Jonathan P. Gerber

Chapter 26. A Proposition for a Parsimonious Taxonomic Convergence of Personality Traits / Niko Tiliopoulos

Chapter 27. The Role of Conceptual Analysis in Personality Research / Simon Boag

Index