This is the first book to provide an overview of current research using cutting-edge genetic and neuroimaging methods in the study of personality. Integrating compelling lines of inquiry that until now have largely remained disparate, the volume brings together leading investigators from personality psychology; clinical psychology and psychiatry; cognitive, affective, and behavioral neuroscience; and comparative psychology. Coverage includes the structure of personality and its mapping onto biology, genetic markers for individual differences, vulnerability to psychopathology, sex differences, age-related processes, and functional neuroimaging approaches.
1. Introduction, Turhan Canli I. Overview and a Historical Perspective 2. Jeffrey Gray's Contributions to Theories of Anxiety, Personality, and Psychopathology, Don C. Fowles II. Studies of Extraversion and Related Traits 3. Biosocial Bases of Sensation Seeking, Marvin Zuckerman 4. Interpersonal Behavior and the Structure of Personality: Neurobehavioral Foundation of Agentic Extraversion and Affiliation, Richard A. Depue 5. Genomic Imaging of Extraversion, Turhan Canli 6. Neural Substrates for Emotional Traits?: The Case of Extraversion, Brian Knutson and Jamil Bhanji 7. Mapping the Neural Correlates of Dimensions of Personality, Emotion, and Motivation, John D. Herrington, Nancy S. Koven, Gregory A. Miller, and Wendy Heller III. Age and Sex as Determinants of Individual Differences 8. The Affective Neuroscience of Aging and Its Implications for Cognition, Marisa Knight and Mara Mather 9. Sex Differences in Neural Responses to Sexual Stimuli in Humans, Stephan Hamann 10. Sex Differences in Brain Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Response to Stress, Rajita Sinha IV. Genetic and Neural Analyses of Anxiety-Related Traits 11. Neuroticism as a Genetic Marker for Mood and Anxiety, Nathan A. Gillespie and Nicholas G. Martin 12. The Association of Personality with Anxious and Depressive Psychopathology, Christel M. Middeldorp, Danielle C. Cath, Mireille van den Berg, A. Leo Beem, Richard van Dyck, and Dorret I. Boomsma 13. 5-HT1A Receptor and Anxiety-Related Traits: Pharmacology, Genetics, and Imaging, Klaus-Peter Lesch and Turhan Canli 14. Genetically Driven Variation in Serotonin Function: Impact on Amygdala Reactivity and Individual Differences in Fearful and Anxious Personality, Ahmad R. Hariri V. Individual Differences in Children 15. Etiology of Psychopathic Tendencies in Children: Distinguishing a Genetically Vulnerable Subgroup of Children with Antisocial Behavior, Essi Viding and Robert Plomin 16. A Cognitive-Behavioral Genetic Approach to Emotional Development in Childhood and Adolescence, Jennifer Y. F. Lau and Thalia C. Eley 17. Cognitive and Biological Functioning in Children at Risk for Depression, Ian H. Gotlib, Jutta Joormann, Kelly L. Minor, and Rebecca E. Cooney VI. Personality in Animals 18. Using Mouse Models to Unravel Aggressive Behavior, Silvana Chiavegatto 19. Searching for Genetic and Environment Contributions to Personality and Happiness in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), Alexander Weiss and James E. King 20. How Can Animal Studies Contribute to Research on the Biological Bases of Personality?, Pranjal H. Mehta and Samuel D. Gosling
