American psychological assn Pathways To Individuality

Examines the personality traits we share with other animals - and those that set us apart from other animals, the social traits that make us distinctly human. Drawing from his own published research over a half-century of teaching and writing on personality, Arnold Buss summarises key theories and recent advances in the study of temperament, the self, and abnormal behaviour and style as crucial dimensions in understanding personality and individual differences.