Personality makes us who we are and influences every aspect of our lives - from how we interact with others, to how we respond in stressful situations. Personality Psychology uses a unique organizational framework to explore the six key domains of knowledge about personality - Dispositional, Biological, Intrapsychic, Cognitive/Experiential, Social/Cultural and Adjustment. This third edition focuses on the scientific basis of current understanding, highlighting contemporary research while also covering classic viewpoints. Key features: * Updated chapter on Culture and Personality with an expanded review of international research * Extensively revised chapter on Personality Disorders, covering the DSM-5 and its hybrid model * New and refreshed pedagogy including 'Application boxes', which examine how personality theories and research are used in real-world situations * 'A Closer Look' sections, which explore core topics and influential studies to enhance students' understanding * New and updated Exercises to encourage critical reflection and the application of theory to personal experience * A fully revised chapter on Psychoanalytic Approaches to Personality, including historical perspectives and extended coverage of Object Relations Theory and Ego Psychology Connect (R) Psychology is McGraw Hill's digital learning and teaching environment. Students - You get easy online access to homework, tests and quizzes designed by your instructor. You get immediate feedback on how you're doing, making it the perfect platform to test your knowledge. Lecturers - Connect (R) gives you the power to create auto-graded assignments, tests and quizzes online. The detailed visual reporting allows you to easily monitor your students' progress. In addition, you can access key support materials for your teaching, including a testbank and lecture support. Randy Larsen is the William R. Stuckenberg Professor of Human Values and Moral Development at Washington University in St. Louis. His recent classes include personality psychology and ethics for scientists. David Buss is Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Individual Differences and Evolutionary Psychology (IDEP) programme at the University of Texas at Austin. Andreas Wismeijer lectures in personality psychology and a multitude of other courses at Tilburg University and Nyenrode Business University. He is a prolific writer of articles on psychology. John Song is the interim Head of the School of Applied Social Sciences at De Montfort University, where he has also taught personality, individual differences and research methods as an Associate Professor. Stephanie van den Berg is Associate Professor at the University of Twente where she teaches statistics, data science and psychometrics to students in the behavioural sciences. Bertus Jeronimus teaches courses on personality and individual differences, as well as lifespan development and socialization, at Groningen University. He is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences.

Personality psychology is a field devoted to the study of all that it means to be human, and with Personality Psychology 8e, Larsen and Buss capture the excitement of the discipline. This text is unique in two significant ways. First, rather than arranging their text around the traditional grand theories of personality, Larsen and Buss instead used a framework of six domains of knowledge about personality functioning: the dispositional domain, the biological domain, the intrapsychic domain, the cognitive-experiential domain, the societal and cultural domain, and the adjustment domain. Research in the field reinforces the fact that these domains effectively organize the key theories within personality psychology. In addition to the six major organizing themes, Personality Psychology 8e also differs from other personality texts in the importance placed on culture, gender, and biology, areas of personality scholarship that have shown substantial growth in recent years.