Personality Books

New and Published Books

1. The Structure of Human Personality (Psychology Revivals)

   By H.J. Eysenck

   Series: Psychology Revivals

   Originally published in 1953, this third edition was first published in 1970. It was one of the early attempts at bringing together theories of personality organisation and finding empirical evidence to test their hypotheses. This third edition includes additional chapters and updated references to...

   Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
2. Personality Structure and Measurement (Psychology Revivals)

   By Hans J. Eysenck, Sybil B.G. Eysenck

   Series: Psychology Revivals

   Originally published in 1969, this book deals extensively with the description and measurement of personality. Beginning with a statement of the principles of typological research in psychology, set against the background of general taxonomic principles in biology, the study discusses in detail...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Experimental Study of Freudian Theories (Psychology Revivals)

   Edited by Hans J. Eysenck, Glenn D. Wilson

   Series: Psychology Revivals

   Originally published in 1973 the editors of this book collected together those studies which had been considered at the time to yield the best evidence in support of Freudian theory, and found on close examination that they failed to provide any such proof. Each paper is printed in full and is...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
4. Crime and Personality (Psychology Revivals)

   By H.J. Eysenck

   Series: Psychology Revivals

   When Crime and Personality was first published in 1964, J.A.C. Brown, writing in the New Statesman, commented: ‘There can be no doubt of the importance of Professor Eysenck’s book on the nature and treatment of criminal behaviour.’ This third edition, originally published in 1977, had been...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
5. Experiments in Personality: Volume 1 (Psychology Revivals)

   Psychogenetics and psychopharmacology

   Edited by H.J. Eysenck

   Series: Psychology Revivals

   Originally published in 1960, the two volumes of Experiments in Personality report a number of experiments in psychogenetics, psychopharmacology, psychodiagnostics, psychometrics and psychodynamics, all of which formed part of the programme of research which had been...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
6. Experiments in Personality: Volume 2 (Psychology Revivals)

   Psychodiagnostics and psychodynamics

   Edited by H.J. Eysenck

   Series: Psychology Revivals

   Originally published in 1960, the two volumes of Experiments in Personality report a number of experiments in psychogenetics, psychopharmacology, psychodiagnostics, psychometrics and psychodynamics, all of which formed part of the programme of research which had been developing from...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
7. Personality Assessment in the DSM-5

   Edited by Steven Huprich, Christopher Hopwood

   The DSM-5 promises to be a major reformulation of psychopathology, and no section is likely to change diagnostic practice more than that of personality pathology. Unlike the DSM-IV, the DSM-5 personality disorders will be conceptualized as involving core deficits in interpersonal and...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
8. Self-Esteem

   Edited by Virgil Zeigler-Hill

   Series: Current Issues in Social Psychology

   In this edited collection a distinguished set of contributors present a broad overview of psychological research on self-esteem. Each chapter is written by leading experts in the field, and surveys current research on a particular issue concerning self-esteem. Together, the chapters provide a...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Psychology Press
9. Interpersonal Sensitivity

   Theory and Measurement

   Edited by Judith A. Hall, Frank J. Bernieri

   Interpersonal sensitivity refers to the accuracy and/or appropriateness of perceptions, judgments, and responses we have with respect to one another. It is relevant to nearly all aspects of social relations and has long been studied by social, personality, and clinical psychologists. Until now,...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Psychology Press
10. Personality as an Affect-processing System

    Toward An Integrative Theory

    By Jack Block

    At least since Hippocrates, human beings have been trying to describe and analyze the behavioral and cognitive consistencies now referred to as personality. And in recent decades, no less than in the preceding centuries, they have generated a bewildering variety of construals and constructs. In...

    Published February 4th 2013 by Psychology Press