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The Scientific Study of Human Nature: Tribute to Hans J.Eysenck at Eighty »
Authors: H. Nyborg
ISBN-13: 9780080427874, ISBN-10: 0080427871
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Date Published: July 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: H. Nyborg
Book Synopsis
This volume is a Festschrift for Hans J. Eysenck on the occasion of his 80th birthday. The world's leading experts in the field of personality and intelligence have gathered together to honour the most widely cited living psychologist. Each chapter describes first Hans Eysenck's contribution to a particular topic then what research has developed from it, what kinds of amendments, modifications or additions to his work are appropriate and, finally thoughts about the future of the field.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | ||
| General introduction: Hans Eysenck - the man, his friends and this book | ||
| Pt. I | Personality | 1 |
| 1 | The psychobiological basis of personality | 3 |
| 2 | Hans Eysenck's personality dimensions: Their number and nature | 17 |
| 3 | Individual differences in reactions to reinforcing stimuli are neither black nor white: To what extent are they Gray? | 36 |
| 4 | Temperament and personality: Eysenck's three superfactors as related to temperamental dimensions | 68 |
| 5 | Psychology and medicine | 92 |
| 6 | Psychoticism as a dimension of personality | 109 |
| 7 | Classical conditioning, arousal, and crime: A biosocial perspective | 122 |
| 8 | Crime and personality | 142 |
| 9 | Sex and personality | 165 |
| 10 | Extraversion and impulsivity: The lost dimension? | 189 |
| Pt. II | Intelligence | 213 |
| Introduction: Hans Eysenck and the study of intelligence | 214 | |
| 11 | The psychometrics of intelligence | 223 |
| 12 | Behavioral genetic and biological approaches to intelligence | 240 |
| 13 | Geographical variation in intelligence | 259 |
| 14 | Intelligence and information processing | 282 |
| 15 | Malleability and change in intelligence | 311 |
| Pt. III | Further Eysenckian Interests | 331 |
| Introduction: Hans Eysenck - A man of many talents | 332 | |
| 16 | Classical conditioning and the role of personality | 339 |
| 17 | Eysenck's contribution to understanding psychopathology | 364 |
| 18 | The psychophysics and psychophysiology of extraversion and arousal | 388 |
| 19 | (Im)pure genius - psychoticism, intelligence, and creativity | 404 |
| 20 | Molecular creativity, genius and madness | 422 |
| 21 | Eysenck's personality theory and organizational psychology | 462 |
| 22 | Bursts of creativity and aberrant sunspot cycles: hypothetical covariations | 491 |
| 23 | Graphology, astrology, and parapsychology | 511 |
| 24 | Eysenck as teacher and mentor | 543 |
| Pt. IV | Epilog | 561 |
| 25 | Psychology as science | 563 |
| Author index | 591 | |
| Subject index | 609 |
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