The development of personality across the human life course may be observed from three
different standpoints: the person as actor (behaving), agent (striving), and author (narrating) …

Personality psychology, which seeks to study individual differences in thoughts, feelings,
and behaviors that persist over time and place, has experienced a renaissance in the last …

Each edition of a textbook must be as vital, dynamic, and responsive to change as the field it
covers. To remain an effective teaching instrument, it must reflect the development of the …

Hypotheses about mean-level age differences in the Big Five personality domains, as well
as 10 more specific facet traits within those domains, were tested in a very large cross …

What are the basic dimensions of temperament? How does temperament influence
children's relationships to their physical and social worlds--and their behavior and …

How much do people's personalities change or remain stable from high school to
retirement? To address these questions, we used a large US sample (N= 1,795) that …

Recent studies of animal personality have focused on its proximate causation and its
ecological and evolutionary significance, but have mostly ignored questions about its …

The paradigm of personality psychopathology is shifting from one that is purely categorical
in nature to one grounded in dimensional individual differences. Section III (Emerging …

Personality traits are defined as the relatively enduring patterns of thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors that distinguish individuals from one another. The crux of personality trait …

The longitudinal stability of personality is low in childhood but increases substantially into
adulthood. Theoretical explanations for this trend differ in the emphasis placed on intrinsic …