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This is the first book to provide an overview of current research using cutting-edge genetic and neuroimaging methods in the study of personality. Integrating compelling lines of inquiry that until now have largely remained disparate, the volume brings together leading investigators from personality psychology; clinical psychology and psychiatry; cognitive, affective, and behavioral neuroscience; and comparative psychology. Coverage includes the structure of personality and its mapping onto biology, genetic markers for individual differences, vulnerability to psychopathology, sex differences, age-related processes, and functional neuroimaging approaches.
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Taken from an August 2004 conference of the same name, these 19 papers from researchers in clinical psychology and psychiatry; cognitive, affective, and behavioral neuroscience; and comparative psychology investigate the genetic, neuroscientific, and other biological bases of human personality and individual differences. Editor Canli (psychology, Stony Brook U.) has organized the papers into sections dealing with studies of extraversion and related traits, age and sex as determinants of individual differences, genetic and neural analyses of anxiety- related traits, individual differences in children, and personality in animals. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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