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Bringing together leading investigators, this comprehensive Handbook is a one-stop reference for anyone planning or conducting research on personality.

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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 forthcoming books, Handbook of Personality and The Self-Conscious Emotions, and served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He was awarded the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Theoretical Innovation Prize.

R. Chris Fraley, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on adult attachment dynamics, personality processes and development, and research methods. Dr. Fraley serves as Associate Editor of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. He received the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology.

Robert F. Krueger, PhD, is McKnight Presidential Fellow and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. His major interests lie at the intersection of research on personality, psychopathology, disorders of personality, behavior genetics, and quantitative methods. Dr. Krueger was the recipient of the Early Career Award from the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology, and the American Psychological Foundation's Theodore Millon Award for midcareer contributions to personality psychology.

Designing A Personality Study
The Role of Theory in Personality Research	p. 3
Designing and Implementing Longitudinal Studies	p. 21
Experimental Approaches to the Study of Personality	p. 37
Behavior Genetic Designs	p. 62
Idiographic Personality: The Theory and Practice of Experience Sampling	p. 79
Psychobiography and Case Study Methods	p. 97
Mining Archival Data	p. 114
Using the Internet for Personality Research: What Can Be Done, How to Do it, and Some Concerns	p. 130
The Null Hypothesis Significance-Testing Debate and Its Implications for Personality Research	p. 149
Cross-Cultural Personality Research: Conceptual and Methodological Issues	p. 170
Measuring Personality in Nonhuman Animals	p. 190
Methods For Assessing Personality at Different Levels of Analysis
Taxonomies, Trends, and Integrations	p. 209
The Self-Report Method	p. 224
The Construct Validation Approach to Personality Scale Construction	p. 240
Observer Ratings of Personality	p. 259
Behavioral Observation	p. 273
Content Coding of Open-Ended Responses	p. 292
Personality Assessment at a Distance	p. 308
Measuring Implicit Motives	p. 322
Lives lived in Milliseconds: Using Cognitive Methods in Personality Research	p. 345
Patient and Neuroimaging Methodologies	p. 360
Physiological Measures	p. 370
The Human Genome Project and Personality: What We Can Learn about Our Inner and Outer Selves through Our Genes	p. 389
Analyzing And Interpreting Personality Data
Toward Modern Psychometrics: Application of Item Response Theory Models in Personality Research	p. 407
Factor Analysis in Personality Research	p. 424
Applications of Structural Equation Modeling in Personality Research	p. 444
The Importance of Being Valid: Reliability and the Process of Construct Validation	p. 461
Evaluating Effect Size in Personality Research	p. 495
Multilevel Modeling in Personality Research	p. 502
Studying Personality Processes: Explaining Change in Between-Persons Longitudinal and Within-Person Multilevel Models	p. 523
The Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Personality Research	p. 543
Person-Centered Structural Analyses	p. 557
Multiple Regression: Applications of the Basics and Beyond in Personality Research	p. 573
Moderator and Mediator Models in Personality Research: A Basic Introduction	p. 602
Computational Modeling of Personality as a Dynamical System	p. 633
Meta-Analysis in Personality Psychology: A Primer	p. 652
What Kinds of Methods Do Personality Psychologists Use?: A Survey of Journal Editors and Editorial Board Members	p. 673
Author Index	p. 679
Subject Index	p. 701
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Handbook of Research Methods in Personality Psychology

Handbook of Research Methods in Personality Psychology

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