Bringing together leading investigators, this comprehensive handbook is a one-stop reference for anyone planning or conducting research on personality. It provides up-to-date analyses of the rich array of methodological tools available today, giving particular attention to real-world theoretical and logistical challenges and how to overcome them. In chapters filled with detailed, practical examples, readers are shown step by step how to formulate a suitable research design, select and use high-quality measures, and manage the complexities of data analysis and interpretation. Coverage ranges from classic methods like self-report inventories and observational procedures to such recent innovations as neuroimaging and genetic analyses. "Provides very thoughtful explorations and descriptions of three sets of topics that by and large represent a coherent system of research in personality psychology: design, measurement, and analysis....What I like about the book is that each chapter is concise and right to the point; since many different areas of design and measurement are covered, it provides an excellent reference for researchers." —PsycCRITIQUES "The fact that no model for a comprehensive personality research methods resource existed before this handbook makes the accomplishment even more impressive still....The editors and authors are to be applauded for providing a significant contribution to psychological science. The volume will find a place on the shelves and desks of many personality researchers for years to come." —Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology "Three rising stars of personality psychology have brought together a 'who's who' of the field to address an almost unbelievably comprehensive set of issues in personality research. The book covers virtually every problem or issue that arises in thinking about how to plan research, assess personality, or analyze the resulting data." —Charles S. Carver, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Miami "A superb textbook and reference for graduate and undergraduate students just entering the field and hoping to conduct their own research. The book is essential for seasoned personality researchers too, because it covers exciting new methods that didn’t exist when we veterans were trained....The sophistication, scope, and engaging prose style of this volume reflect the vitality of the field itself." —Phillip R. Shaver, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis I. Designing a Personality Study 1. The Role of Theory in Personality Assessment, Dan P. McAdams and Jennifer L. Pals 2. Designing and Implementing Longitudinal Studies, M. Brent Donnellan and Rand D. Conger 3. Experimental Approaches to the Study of Personality, William Revelle 4. Behavior Genetic Designs, Robert F. Krueger and Jennifer L. Tackett 5. Idiographic Personality: The Theory and Practice of Experience Sampling, Tamlin S. Conner, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Michele M. Tugade, and Howard Tennen 6. Psychobiography and Case Study Methods, Alan C. Elms 7. Mining Archival Data, Phebe Cramer 8. Using the Internet for Personality Research: What Can Be Done, How to Do It, and Some Concerns, R. Chris Fraley 9. The Null Hypothesis Significance-Testing Debate and Its Implications for Personality Research, R. Chris Fraley and Michael J. Marks 10. Cross-Cultural Personality Research: Conceptual and Methodological Issues, Verónica Benet-Martínez 11. Measuring Personality in Nonhuman Animals, Simine Vazire, Samuel D. Gosling, Audrey S. Dickey, and Steven J. Schapiro II. Methods for Assessing Personality at Different Levels of Analysis 12. Taxonomies, Trends, and Integrations, Kenneth H. Craik 13. The Self-Report Method, Delroy L. Paulhus and Simine Vazire 14. The Construct Validation Approach to Personality Scale Construction, Leonard J. Simms and David Watson 15. Observer Ratings of Personality, Robert R. McCrae and Alexander Weiss 16. Behavior Observation, R. Michael Furr and David C. Funder 17. Content Coding of Open-Ended Responses, Barbara A. Woike 18. Personality Assessment at a Distance, Anna V. Song and Dean Keith Simonton 19. Measuring Implicit Motives, Oliver C. Schultheiss and Joyce S. Pang 20. Lives Lived in Milliseconds: Using Cognitive Methods in Personality Research, Michael D. Robinson 21. Patient and Neuroimaging Methodologies, Jennifer S. Beer and Michael V. Lombardo 22. Physiological Measures, Lisa M. Diamond and Kim Otter-Henderson 23. The Human Genome Project and Personality: What We Can Learn about Our Inner and Outer Selves through Our Genes, Richard P. Ebstein, Rachel Bachner-Melman, Salomon Israel, Lubov Nemanov, and Inga Gritsenko III. Analyzing and Interpreting Personality Data 24. Toward Modern Psychometrics: Application of Item Response Theory Models in Personality Research, Julien Morizot, Andrew T. Ainsworth, and Steven P. Reise 25. Factor Analysis in Personality Research, Kibeom Lee and Michael C. Ashton 26. Applications of Structural Equation Modeling in Personality Research, Rick H. Hoyle 27. The Importance of Being Valid: Reliability and the Process of Construct Validation, Oliver P. John and Christopher J. Soto 28. Evaluating Effect Size in Personality Research, Daniel J. Ozer 29. Multilevel Modeling in Personality Research, John B. Nezlek 30. Studying Personality Processes: Explaining Change in Between-Persons Longitudinal and Within-Person Multilevel Models, William Fleeson 31. The Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Personality Research, Daniel K. Mroczek 32. Person-Centered Structural Analyses, James W. Grice 33. Multiple Regression: Applications of the Basics and Beyond in Personality Research, Stephen G. West, Leona S. Aiken, Wei Wu, and Aaron B. Taylor 34. Moderator and Mediator Models in Personality Research: A Basic Introduction, William F. Chaplin 35. Computational Modeling of Personality as a Dynamical System, Yuichi Shoda 36. Meta-Analysis in Personality Psychology: A Primer, Brent W. Roberts, Nathan R. Kuncel, Wolfgang Viechtbauer, and Tim Bogg 37. What Kinds of Methods Do Personality Psychologists Use?: A Survey of Journal Editors and Editorial Board Members, Richard W. Robins, Jessica L. Tracy, and Jeffrey W. Sherman CONTRIBUTORS Leona S. Aiken, PhD, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Andrew T. Ainsworth, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California Michael C. Ashton, PhD, Department of Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada Rachel Bachner-Melman, MA, Scheinfeld Center of Human Genetics for the Social Sciences and Department of Psychology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, Department of Psychology, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts Jennifer S. Beer, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, California Verónica Benet-Martínez, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, California Tim Bogg, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois William F. Chaplin, PhD, Department of Psychology, St. John’s University, Jamaica, New York Rand D. Conger, PhD, Department of Human and Community Development, University of California, Davis, California Tamlin S. Conner, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut Kenneth H. Craik, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California Phebe Cramer, PhD, Department of Psychology, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts Lisa M. Diamond, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Audrey S. Dickey, BA, Department of Pharmacology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa M. Brent Donnellan, PhD, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan Richard P. Ebstein, PhD, Scheinfeld Center of Human Genetics for the Social Sciences and Department of Psychology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Alan C. Elms, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, California William Fleeson, PhD, Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina R. Chris Fraley, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois David C. Funder, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, California R. Michael Furr, PhD, Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina Samuel D. Gosling, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas James W. Grice, PhD, Department of Psychology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma Inga Gritsenko, MS, Department of Psychology, Scheinfeld Center of Human Genetics for the Social Sciences, Hebrew University, and S. Herzog Memorial Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel Rick H. Hoyle, PhD, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Salomon Israel, MS, Department of Psychology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Oliver P. John, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California Robert F. Krueger, PhD, Department of Psychology and Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Nathan R. Kuncel, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois Kibeom Lee, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Michael V. Lombardo, BA, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, California Michael J. Marks, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois Dan P. McAdams, PhD, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Robert R. McCrae, PhD, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland Julien Morizot, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Daniel K. Mroczek, PhD, Department of Child Development and Family Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Lubov Nemanov, MD, Sarah Herzog Memorial Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel John B. Nezlek, PhD, Department of Psychology, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia Kim Otter-Henderson, MA, Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Daniel J. Ozer, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, California Jennifer L. Pals, PhD, Foley Center for the Study of Lives, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Joyce S. Pang, PhD, Department of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Delroy L. Paulhus, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Steven P. Reise, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California William Revelle, PhD, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, 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 Michael D. Robinson, PhD, Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota Steven J. Schapiro, PhD, Department of Veterinary Sciences, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, Texas Oliver C. Schultheiss, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Jeffrey W. Sherman, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, California Yuichi Shoda, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Leonard J. Simms, PhD, Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York Dean Keith Simonton, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, California Anna V. Song, PhD, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco, California Christopher J. Soto, AB, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California Jennifer L. Tackett, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Aaron B. Taylor, MA, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Howard Tennen, PhD, Department of Community Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut Jessica L. Tracy, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Michele M. Tugade, PhD, Department of Psychology, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Simine Vazire, PhD, Department of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri Wolfgang Viechtbauer, PhD, Department of Methodology and Statistics, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands David Watson, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Alexander Weiss, PhD, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland Stephen G. West, PhD, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Barbara A. Woike, PhD, Department of Psychology, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, New York Wei Wu, MA, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Edited by Richard W. Robins, PhD, University of California, Davis; R. Chris Fraley, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; and Robert F. Krueger, PhD, University of Minnesota |