A brief history of modern personality theory / Lawrence A. Pervin -- Psychoanalytic approaches to personality / Drew Westen -- The "big five" factor taxonomy : dimensions of personality in the natural language and in questionnaires / Oliver P. John -- Advances in Cattellian personality theory / Raymond B. Cattell -- Personality dispositions revisited and revised : a view after three decades / Walter Mischel -- Personality, cognition, and purposive behavior / Nancy Cantor and Sabrina Zirkel -- Cognitive-experiential self-theory / Seymour Epstein -- Personality development from an interactional perspective / David Magnusson -- Behavioral genetics and personality / Robert Plomin, Heather M. Chipuer, and John C. Loehlin -- Biological dimensions of personality / Hans J. Eysenck -- Self-knowledge and social development in early life / Michael Lewis -- Personality, social psychology, and person-situation relations : standards and knowledge activation as a common language / E. Tory Higgins -- The disorders of personality / Theodore Millon -- Personality change and psychotherapy / Stanley B. Messer and Seth Warren -- The semiotic subject of cultural psychology / Richard A. Schweder and Maria A. Sullivan -- Personality and private experience : individual variations in consciousness and in attention to subjective phenomena / Jerome L. Singer and George A. Bonanno -- The psychological unconscious / John F. Kihlstrom -- Attribution in personality psychology / Bernard Weiner -- Sex, gender, and the individual / Richard D. Ashmore -- Perspectives on competence motivation / Richard Koestner and David C. McClelland -- Personality continuity and change across the life course / Avshalom Caspi and Daryl J. Bem -- The interpersonal self / Hazel Markus and Susan Cross -- Emotion and adaptation / Craig A. Smith and Richard S. Lazarus -- Personality and health / Richard J. Contrada, Howard Leventhal, and Ann O'Leary -- Personality and politics / Dean Keith Simonton -- Personality assessment : a conceptual survey / Leonard G. Rorer -- Personality theory and research : prospects for the future / Lawrence A. Pervin.