Handbook of Personality

880 Pages·2008·4.44 MB·English

Handbook of Personality
Handbook of
Personality
Theory and Research
Third EdiTion
edited by
Oliver P. John
Richard W. Robins
Lawrence A. Pervin
tHe Guilford Press
new york london
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Handbook of personality : theory and research / edited by Oliver P. John, Richard W. Robins,
Lawrence A. Pervin. — 3rd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-59385-836-0 (hardcover)
1. Personality. I. John, Oliver P. II. Robins, Richard W. III. Pervin, Lawrence A.
BF698.H335 2008
155.2—dc22
2008006659
About the Editors
Oliver P. John, PhD, at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1987, is both
Professor in the Department of Psychology, where he was recently recognized as the
most cited faculty member, and Research Psychologist at the Institute of Personal-
ity and Social Research, where he has twice served as Acting Director. Dr. John
has won the Distinguished Teaching Award from Berkeley’s College of Letters and
Science (2004), the Theoretical Innovation Prize from the Society for Personality
and Social Psychology (2002), the Best Paper of the Year Award from the Journal
of Research in Personality (1998, 2003), and the Cattell Award for Early Career
Contributions from the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (1996).
He has served as Associate Editor of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,
as an Honorary Gast Professor at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and
as Kurt Lewin Fellow at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. In more
than 90 articles and three books, Dr. John has examined personality structure and
processes, emotion expression and regulation, self and self-perception processes,
and methodological issues; his Big Five Inventory and Emotion Regulation Ques-
tionnaire have each been translated into more than 15 languages.
Richard W. Robins, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of California,
Davis. His research focuses on personality, emotion, and the self. Dr. Robins is
coeditor of two books, Handbook of Research Methods in Personality Psychol-
ogy and The Self-Conscious Emotions (both published by Guilford in 2007), and
served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
He has won the Distinguished Scientifc Award for Early Career Contribution to
Psychology from the American Psychological Association and the Theoretical In-
novation Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Lawrence A. Pervin, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University, where he
served as Professor of Psychology from 1971 to 2004. In addition to editing the
frst edition of this handbook (Guilford, 1990), he is the original author of the
textbook Personality: Theory and Research, now in its 10th edition (with Daniel
Cervone; Wiley, 2008); the author of three editions of Current Controversies and
Issues in Personality; and the founding editor of the journal Psychological Inquiry.
His books have been translated into eight foreign languages.
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Contributors
Nicole B. Barenbaum, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of the South, Sewanee,
Tennessee
Justin L. Barrett, PhD, Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, School of
Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Roy F. Baumeister, PhD, Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee,
Florida
Verónica Benet-Martínez, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California,
Riverside, California
Jennifer K. Bosson, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa,
Florida
David M. Buss, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, Texas
Turhan Canli, PhD, Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience Center, Graduate
Program in Genetics, and Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook,
New York
John P. Capitanio, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis,
California
Charles S. Carver, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables,
Florida
Avshalom Caspi, PhD, Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre,
Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, and Department
of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Lee Anna Clark, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Paul T. Costa, Jr., Biomedical Research Center, National Institute on Aging, National
Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland
Edward L. Deci, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester,
New York
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viii Contributors
Ed Diener, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign,
Champaign, Illinois
Robert A. Emmons, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis,
California
R. Chris Fraley, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at
Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois
Howard S. Friedman, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside,
California
Daniel Fulford, MS, Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables,
Florida
David C. Funder, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside,
California
Glen O. Gabbard, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College
of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Matthew T. Gailliot, PhD, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of
Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Samuel D. Gosling, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, Texas
James J. Gross, PhD, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Sarah E. Hampson, PhD, Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, Oregon, and Department of
Psychology, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
E. Tory Higgins, PhD, Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York,
New York
Oliver P. John, PhD, Department of Psychology and Institute of Personality and Social
Research, University of California, Berkeley, California
Wendy Johnson, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, Minnesota
John F. Kihlstrom, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley,
California
Robert F. Krueger, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
Minnesota
Richard E. Lucas, PhD, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University,
East Lansing, Michigan
Dan P. McAdams, PhD, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston,
Illinois
Robert R. McCrae, PhD, Biomedical Research Center, National Institute on Aging,
National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland
Nicole L. Mead, MSc, Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee,
Florida
Walter Mischel, PhD, Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York,
New York
Laura P. Naumann, MA, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley,
California
Contributors ix
Shigehiro Oishi, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville,
Virginia
Kile M. Ortigo, MA, Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Delroy L. Paulhus, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Eva M. Pomerantz, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at
Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois
Brent W. Roberts, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at
Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois
Richard W. Robins, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis,
California
Richard M. Ryan, PhD, Department of Clinical and Social Psychology, University of
Rochester, Rochester, New York
Carol D. Ryff, PhD, Institute on Aging and Department of Psychology, University of
Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Michael F. Scheier, PhD, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Sarah A. Schnitker, MA, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis,
California
Abigail A. Scholer, MA, Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York,
New York
Oliver C. Schultheiss, PhD, Department of Psychology and Sport Sciences,
Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany
Phillip R. Shaver, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis,
California
Yuichi Shoda, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle,
Washington
Dean Keith Simonton, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis,
California
Gregory T. Smith, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington,
Kentucky
Christopher J. Soto, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley,
California
William B. Swann, Jr., PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, Texas
Ross A. Thompson, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis,
California
Jessica L. Tracy, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Paul D. Trapnell, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Winnipeg,
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Kali H. Trzesniewski, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario, Canada
David Watson, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
x Contributors
Tamara A. R. Weinstein, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis,
California
Drew Westen, PhD, Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Thomas A. Widiger, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington,
Kentucky
David G. Winter, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Michigan
Dustin Wood, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at
Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois