Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Situations, dispositions, and the study of social behavior / Mark R. Leary and Rick H. Hoyle -- Methods for the study of individual differences in social behavior / Rick H. Hoyle and Mark R. Leary -- Extraversion / Joshua Wilt and William Revelle -- Agreeableness / William G. Graziano and Renee M. Tobin -- Attachment styles / Phillip R. Shaver and Mario Mikulincer -- Interpersonal dependency / Robert F. Bornstein -- Machiavellianism / Daniel N. Jones and Delroy L. Paulhus -- Gender identity / Wendy Wood and Alice H. Eagly -- Neuroticism / Thomas A. Widiger -- Happiness / Ed Diener, Pelin Kesebir and William Tov -- Depression / Patrick H. Finan, Howard Tennen and Alex J. Zautra -- Social anxiousness, shyness and embarassability / Rowland S. Miller -- Proneness to shame and proneness to guilt / June Price Tangney, Kerstin Youman and Jeffrey Stuewig -- Hostility and proneness to anger / John C. Barefoot and Stephen H. Boyle -- Loneliness / John T. Cacioppo and Louise C. Hawkley -- Affect intensity / Randy J. Larsen -- Openness to experience / Robert R. McCrae and Angelina R. Sutin -- Locus of control and attribution style / Adrian Furnham -- Belief in a just world / Claudia Dalbert -- Authoritarianism and dogmatism / John Duckitt -- The need for cognition / Richard E. Petty ... [et al.] -- Optimism / Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier -- The need for cognitive closure / Arie W. Kruglanski and Shira Fishman -- Integrative complexity / Peter Suedfeld -- Conscientiousness / Brent W. Roberts ... [et al.] -- Achievement motivation / David E. Conroy, Andrew J. Elliot and Todd M. Thrash -- Belonging motivation / Mark R. Leary and Kristine M. Kelly -- Affiliation motivation / Craig A. Hill -- Power motivation / Eugene M. Fodor -- Social desirability / Ronald R. Holden and Jennifer Passey -- Sensation seeking / Marvin Zuckerman -- Rejection sensitivity / Rainer Romero-Canyas ... [et al.] -- Psychological defensiveness : repression, blunting and defensive pessimism / Julie K. Norem -- Private and public self-consciousness / Allan Fenigstein -- Independent, relational and collective-interdependent self-construals / Susan E. Cross, Erin E. Hardin and Berna Gercek Swing -- Self-esteem / Jennifer K. Bosson and William B. Swann, Jr. -- Narcissism / Frederick Rhodewalt and Benjamin Peterson -- Self-compassion / Kristin Neff -- Self-monitoring / Paul T. Fuglestad and Mark Snyder.