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REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. In what specific ways did the ancient views on tem perament/personality influence more recent per sonality psychologists? 2. Do morphological theories contain any merit, and in what ways might bodily constitution be related to personality? FURTHER QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS 1. In what ways might even ‘laughably wrong’ theories be an inspiration for scientific developments in per sonality psychology? Cloninger, S. C. (2020). Conceptual and historical per spectives. In P. J. Corr & G. Matthews (eds.), The Cam bridge handbook of personality psychology (2nd ed., pp. 13–30). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. This is a superb summary of the background to the entire field of personality psychology, and it is contained in a hand book of 35 detailed chapters with a statistical analyses and computer programming appendix, all produced by acknowledged experts. Cook, M. (2013). Levels of personality . Cambridge: Cam bridge University Press. This is a lively, well-written, and informative account of the main areas of personality psy chology, providing an excellent overview of the main is sues and applications. Corr, P. J. (ed.) (2019). Personality and individual differ ences: Revisiting the classic studies . London: Sage. In this edited book, 14 classic studies in personality psycholo gy are discussed by leading researchers in the respective areas, starting with Webb’s (1915) study and ending with the 2002 articulation of the Dark Triad of personality. Cronbach, L. J. (1957). The two disciplines of scientific psychology. American Psychologist, 12 , 671–684. A well known classical work of Cronbach which explains two major disciplines in psychology. Deary, I. J. (2019). Assessing and enumerating personali ty dimensions: Revisiting Webb (1915). In P. J. Corr (ed.) Personality and individual differences: Revisiting the clas sic studies . London: Sage. This chapter provides an acces sible account of one of the earliest and most impressive scientific studies of personality. GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

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3. What was phrenology trying to achieve and is it now being realized in the neuroscience of personality?

2. How do you define the difference between the con ceptual nervous system (cns) and central nervous system (CNS)?

Gudjonsson, G. (2016). Hans Eysenck’s theory on the ‘causes’ and ‘cures’ of criminality: A personal reflection. Personality and Individual Differences, 103 , 105–112. This is an insider’s account—as a former police officer, foren sic psychologist, and colleague and co-author of Hans Eysenck, on the lack of a coherent theory of personality and crime. Sargant, W. (1961). Battle for the mind: A physiology of conversion and brain-washing . London: Penguin Books. Although now dated, this is an excellent account of how Pavlovian ideas can be applied to religious conversion and attempts to brainwash captured military personnel— it gives a flavour of how a biological approach to psychia try at the time related to the wider world, in this case the darker sides. Sargant was an influential, though contro versial, biological psychiatrist. See his obituary by Des mond Kelly published by the Royal College of Physicians, 1988, by searching Sargant’s name and the RCP online. For a less charitable assessment, search for ‘Visionary or Disaster; a perspective on William Sargant’ by Dr Nick Read. Todes, D. P. (2002). Pavlov’s physiology factory . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. This is an authorita tive and detailed account of the massive scientific enter prise undertaken by Pavlov and his co-workers, which did so much to establish a physiology of behaviour and per sonality, which extends to many areas of life (e.g. medi cine/psychiatry, and social engineering).

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