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Warsaw Lectures in Personality and Social Psychology Volume 1

PERSONALITY FROM BIOLOGICAL, COGNITIVE, AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES

edited by Tomasz Maruszewski, Polish Academy of Sciences and Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland, Małgorzata Fajkowska, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities and Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, and Michael W. Eysenck, Roehampton University, Whitelands College, London, United Kingdom

From the Foreword . . .

“It is my firm conviction that this volume edited by Tomasz Maruszewski, Małgorzata Fajkowska, and Michael W. Eysenck is a stimulating book that represents an important contribution to the field. Therefore it gives me great pleasure to recommend this volume to fellow researchers, teachers, and students as an advanced text in courses on personality and social psychology.”
Andrzej Eliasz, Rector, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities

From the reviews . . .

“[T]his book offers a good mix of philosophical chapters on the biology of personality and some interesting chapters on intra- and inter-individual differences in some classic social psychological constructs.”
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic in Personality and Individual Differences

CONTENTS

Foreword by Andrzej Eliasz

Introduction: An Integrative View of Personality

I. ON SOME BIOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERSONALITY

Is Neurobiology of Personality Inevitable? A Philosophical Perspective
Katarzyna Paprzycka

How Far Are We in Searching for the Biological Background of Personality?
Jan Strelau

A Neurocognitive Model of the Self
Marek Cielecki

Perceptual Identity and Personal Self: Neurobiological Reflections
Ernst Pöppel

II. NOURISHMENT OF PERSONALITY: INFORMATION AND EXTERNAL CONDITIONS

Time and Cognition from the Aging Brain Perspective: Individual Differences
Elzbieta Szelag, Joana Dreszer, Monika Lewandowska, Justyna Medygral, Grzegorz Osinski, and Aneta Szymaszek

The Mismatch Negativity: A Unique Window on Central Auditory Processing
Risto Näättänen

III. SOCIAL CONTEXT: FROM WITHIN PERSONS TO AMONG PERSONS

Environmental and Genetic Determinants of Sociopolitical Attitudes
Jakubowska Urszula and Wlodzimierz Oniszczenko

The Cognitive Nature of Prejudiced Individuals
Kinga Piber-Dabrowska, Grzegorz Sedek, and Miroslaw Kofta

ERP Time Course and Brain Areas of Spontaneous and Intentional Social inferences
Frank Van Overwalle and Kris Baetens

Index

ISBN 978-0-9797731-5-0/hardcover/222 pp./illus./May 2010/$65.00