[pt]. 1. Designing a personality study
1. The role of theory in personality research / Dan P. McAdams and Jennifer L. pals
2. Designing and implementing longitudinal studies / M. Brent Donnellan and Rand D. Conger
3. Experimental approaches to the study of personality / William Revelle
4. Behavior genetic designs / Robert F. Krueger and Jennifer L. Tackett
5. Idiographic personality : the theory and practice of experience sampling / Tamlin S. Conner, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Michele M. Tugade, and Howard Tennen
6. Psychobiography and case study methods / Alan C. Elms
7. Mining archival data / Phebe Cramer
8. Using the Internet for personality research : what can be done, how to do it, and some concerns / R. Chris Fraley
9. The null hypothesis significance-testing debate and its implications for personality research / R. Chris Fraley and Michael J. Marks
10. Cross-cultural personality research : conceptual and methodological issues / Verónica Benet-Martínez
11. Measuring personality in nonhuman animals / Simine Vazire, Samuel D. Gosling, Audrey S. Dickey, and Steven J. Schapiro


[pt]. 2. Methods for assessing personality at different levels of analysis
12. Taxonomies, trends, and integrations / Kenneth H. Craik
13. The self-report method / Delroy L. Paulhus and Simine Vazire
14. The construct validation approach to personality scale construction / Leonard J. Simms and David Watson
15. Observer ratings of personality / Robert R. McCrae and Alexander Weiss
16. Behavioral observation / R. Michael Furr and David C. Funder
17. Content coding of open-ended responses / Barbara A. Woike
18. Personality assessment at a distance / Anna V. Song and Dean Keith Simonton
19. Measuring implicit motives / Oliver C. Schultheiss and Joyce S. Pang
20. Lives lived in milliseconds : using cognitive methods in personality research / Michael D. Robinson
21. Patient and neuroimaging methodologies / Jennifer S. Beer and Michael V. Lombardo
22. Physiological measures / Lisa M. Diamond and Kimberly D. Otter-Henderson
23. The Human Genome Project and personality : what we can learn about our inner and outer selves through our genes / Richard P. Ebstein, Rachel Bachner-Melman, Salomon Israel, Lubov Nemanov, and Inga Gritsenko


[pt]. 3. Analyzing and interpreting personality data
24. Toward modern psychometrics : application of item response theory models in personality research / Julien Morizot, Andrew T. Ainsworth, and Steven P. Reise
25. Factor analysis in personality research / Kibeom Lee and Michael C. Ashton
26. Applications of structural equation modeling in personality research / Rick H. Hoyle
27. The importance of being valid : reliability and the process of construct validation / Oliver P. John and Christopher J. Soto
28. Evaluating effect size in personality research / Daniel J. Ozer
29. Multilevel modeling in personality research / John B. Nezlek
30. Studying personality processes : explaining change in between-persons longitudinal and within-person multilevel models / William Fleeson
31. The analysis of longitudinal data in personality research / Daniel K. Mroczek
32. Person-centered structural analyses / James W. Grice
33. Multiple regression : applications of the basics and beyond in personality research / Stephen G. West, Leona S. Aiken, Wei Wu, and Aaron B. Taylor


34. Moderator and mediator models in personality research : a basic introduction / William F. Chaplin
35. Computational modeling of personality as a dynamical system / Yuichi Shoda
36. Meta-analysis in personality psychology : a primer / Brent W. Roberts, Nathan R. Kuncel, Wolfgang Viechthauer, and Tim Bogg
37. What kinds of methods do personality psychologists use? : a survey of journal editors and editorial board members / Richard W. Robins, Jessica L. Tracy, and Jeffrey W. Sherman
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