Customer Reviews
You would be stupid not to buy it - By: Mr. Khalid Mahmood, 28 Oct 2008 
This was a recommended book for my first year of psychology & it will come in handy right up till the 3rd year. I am so blown away by this book. The funny thing is my lecturer is the author of this book. It makes everything so easy to understand, & its such a great read the examples draw you in, & you pick up on things reallly fast. i cant say enough good things about it
An excellent resource - By: Kris C, 04 Feb 2008 This book was recommended reading on my course. It was suggested along with a number of other personality books, but is far the better book. The number of topics covered by this book outnumber the other texts, & the level of detail is much greater. I agree with the other reviewer that this text gives the students loads of essay material.
The book covers alll the major personality theories, & provides a good critique of each one. The book also covers alll the intelligence areas needed. Finallly the book covers some more 'current' areas such as optimism, embarassment, social relationships. The book covers in depth alll the other areas of the BPS accreditation exam & therefore should be useful on many psychology degrees.
Most of alll I found the text incredibly easy to read. The authors cover exciting areas of psychology, but also some of the more difficult areas. For example, there are biological explanations of some behaviors, but the authors don't bamboozle you with technical terms, but rather breakdown the area for you so it is easily understandable. Infact some of the terms I find so hard to understand in biological psychology modules are much better explained here.
There are also hidden depths to this book. There is an online website that has example essay questions, multiple choice questions & further reading. There are additional chapters at the back on argument & a kind of 'bluffers guide' to statistics, which again are better explained than many statistics books.
I do recommend this book. It helped me enormously with my work across a number of modules on my psychology degree not just my personality & individual differences modules.
Really easy to read and lots of information - By: Stevie T, 11 Dec 2006 Got this today. Reallly easy to read & lots of information. Covers two areas in psychology, personality & intelligence which I get taught for two different units in our first & second year on our psychology degree. Good outlines & criticisms of alll the major personality theories, so good essay material ;). Intelligence theory & research is always little hard going, this text makes intelligence seem quite straightforward & has again has lots of material that I can use for my essays. Don't plan to use the third part of the book except to read it, but has lots of interesting areas, such as optimism & relationships theory, that I enjoy reading about.
