Personality assessment, as a scientific endeavor, seeks to determine those characteristics
that constitute important individual differences in personality, to develop accurate measures …

As personality psychologists, we bring to this symposium volume a view of human social
functioning that emphasizes the intertwining of cognition and motivation, the dynamics of …

As the scientific study of the individual person, personality psychology historically has
struggled to provide the kind of broad conceptual framework capable of orienting theory and …

Individual differences in personality may be described at three different levels. Level I
consists of those broad, de contextualized, and relatively non conditional constructs called …

A meta‐analysis of predictors of nonmarital romantic relationship dissolution was conducted,
including data collected from 37,761 participants and 137 studies over 33 years. Individual …

By contemporary I mean a present with an anticipated future, for we must do our best to
overcome clinical habits which make us assume that we have done our part if we have clari …

Incorporating the most up-to-date literature in sociology, psychoanalysis, psychology, and
communication, this book provides an exhaustive synthesis of theoretical, empirical, and …

The term social intelligence was first used by Dewey (1909) and Lull (1911), but the modern
concept has its origins in EL Thorndike's (1920) division of intelligence into three facets …

This volume on close relationships in adulthood discusses the central issues in the field and
points the way towards the construction of an integrated body of knowledge about human …

The delayed entry into marriage that characterizes modern society raises questions about
young adults' romantic relationship trajectories and whether patterns found to characterize …