Research in the field of personality psychology has culminated in a radical departure. The
result is Personality Psychology: Recent Trends and Emerging Directions. Drs. Buss and Cantor
have compiled the innovative research of twenty-five young outstanding personality
psychologists to represent the recent expansion of issues in the fields. Advances in assessment
have brought about more powerful methods and the explanatory tools for extending personality
psychology beyond its traditional reaches into the areas of cognitive psychology evolutionary
biology and sociology. This volume represents a significant landmark in the psychology of
personality.
