PSYC2521
Individual Differences reading list
Dr Martin Farrell
M.J.Farrell@leeds.ac.uk
Tutor information is taken from the Module Catalogue
General:
Maltby, J., Day, L., & Macaskill, A. (2017). Personality, individual differences and intelligence. Pearson Education.
Haslam, N., Smillie, L., & Song, J. (2017). An introduction to personality, individual differences and intelligence. SAGE.
Lecture 1: Freud and Psychoanalysis
Farrell, M. (2014). Historical and philosophical foundations of psychology. Cambridge University Press. Chapter 10. OCR REQUESTED BY LIBRARY (MH 26/08/2021)
Solms, M. (2004). Freud returns. Scientific American, 290(5), 82-89.
Maltby, J., Day, L., & Macaskill, A. (2017). Personality, individual differences and intelligence. Pearson Education. Chapter 2
Haslam, N., Smillie, L., & Song, J. (2017). An introduction to personality, individual differences and intelligence. SAGE. Chapter 4
Jung and humanistic approaches
Harding, M. E. (1962). Jung's influence on contemporary thought. Journal of Religion and Health, 1(3), 247-259.
Maslow, A. (1965). Self-actualization and beyond.(available at: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED012056.pdf)
Rogers, C. R. (1947). Some observations on the organization of personality. American Psychologist, 2(9), 358.
Trait approaches to personality
Ashton, M. C., & Lee, K. (2007). Empirical, theoretical, and practical advantages of the HEXACO model of personality structure. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 11, 150-166.
Campbell, J. B., & Hawley, C. B. (1982). Study Habits and Eysenck’s Theory of Extraversion-Introversion. Journal of Research in Personality, 16, 139-146
McCrae, R. R., & Costa, P. T. (1997). Personality trait structure as a human universal. American Psychologist, 52, 509-516
Personality and creativity
Dollinger, S. J., Urban, K. K., & James, T. A. (2004). Creativity and openness: Further validation of two creative product measures. Creativity Research Journal, 16(1), 35-47.
MacKinnon, D. W. (1965). Personality and the realization of creative potential. American Psychologist, 20(4), 273.
Stavridou, A., & Furnham, A. (1996). The relationship between psychoticism, trait-creativity and the attentional mechanism of cognitive inhibition. Personality and Individual Differences, 21(1), 143-153.
Intelligence
Gardner, H. (2005, May). Multiple lenses on the mind. In ExpoGestion Conference, Bogota, Columbia. Available online
Sternberg, Robert J., and James C. Kaufman. "Human abilities." Annual review of psychology 49, no. 1 (1998): 479-502.
Personality and Politics
Carney, D. R., Jost, J. T., Gosling, S. D., & Potter, J. (2008). The secret lives of liberals and conservatives: Personality profiles, interaction styles, and the things they leave behind. Political Psychology, 29(6), 807-840.
Tritt, S. M., Peterson, J. B., Page-Gould, E., & Inzlicht, M. (2016). Ideological reactivity: Political conservatism and brain responsivity to emotional and neutral stimuli. Emotion, 16(8), 1172.
Xu, X., Mar, R. A., & Peterson, J. B. (2013). Does cultural exposure partially explain the association between personality and political orientation?. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39(11), 1497-1517.
Visser, B. A., Book, A. S., & Volk, A. A. (2017). Is Hillary dishonest and Donald narcissistic? A HEXACO analysis of the presidential candidates' public personas. Personality and Individual Differences, 106, 281-286
Week 7: Multiculturalism, personality and intelligence
Essential readings:
Chen, S. X., & Bond, M. H. (2010). Two languages, two personalities? Examining language effects on the expression of personality in a bilingual context. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36(11), 1514-1528. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47414939_Two_Languages_Two_Personalities_Examining_Language_Effects_on_the_Expression_of_Personality_in_a_Bilingual_Context
Poarch, G. J., & Krott, A. (2019). A bilingual advantage? An appeal for a change in perspective and recommendations for future research. Behavioral Sciences, 9 (9), 95. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/9/9/95/htm
Recommended readings:
Bialystok, E., Craik, F. I. M., & Freedman, M. (2006). Bilingualism as a protection against the onset of symptoms of dementia. Neuropsychologia, 45(2), 459-464. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0028393206004076
Benet-Martínez, V. (2012). Multiculturalism: Cultural, social and personality processes. Oxford Handbooks Online, pp. 1-54. OCR REQUESTED BY LIBRARY (CRH 22/09/2021) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284490142_Multiculturalism_Cultural_Social_and_Personality_Processes
Triandis, H. C. (2001). Individualism-collectivism and personality. Journal of Personality, 69(6), 907–924. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6494.696169
Zhang, S., Morris, M. W., Cheng, C.-Y., & Yapa, A. J. (2013). Heritage-culture images disrupt immigrants’ second-language processing through triggering first-language interference. PNAS, 110(28), 11272-11277. https://www.pnas.org/content/110/28/11272
Week 8: Sex differences in intelligence
Essential readings:
Baron-Cohen, S. (2002). The extreme male brain theory of autism. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6 (6), 248-254. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661302019046?via%3Dihub
van der Linden, D., Dunkel, C. S., & Madison, G. (2017). Sex differences in brain size and general intelligence (g). Intelligence, 63, 78-88. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289616302975
Recommended readings:
Maltby, J., Day, L., & Macaskill, A. (2017). Personality, individual differences and intelligence (4th ed.). Person Education Limited: Harlow, UK.
§ Chapters 13 and 14 (sections on heritability of intelligence and sex differences in intelligence)
Greenberg, D. M., Warrier, V., Allison, C., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2018). Testing the Empathizing-Systemizing theory of sex differences and the Extreme Male Brain theory of autism in half a million people. PNAS, 115 (48), 12152-12157. https://www.pnas.org/content/115/48/12152
Ridley, R. (2019). Some difficulties behind the concept of the ‘Extreme male brain’ in autism research. A theoretical review. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 57, 19-27. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1750946718301417
This list was last updated on 01/11/2021