title:     Dimensions of Personality
                                           author:        Eysenck, H. J.
                                        publisher:        Transaction Publishing
                                   isbn10 | asin:         1560009853
                                     print isbn13:        9781560009856
                                   ebook isbn13:          9780585342078
                                        language:         English
                                           subject        Personality, Psychology, Pathological.
                               publication date:          1998
                                                lcc:      BF698.E92 1998eb
                                               ddc:       155.2
                                           subject:       Personality, Psychology, Pathological.
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                                                   Dimensions of Personality
                                                         Hans Eysenck
                                                   With a New Introduction
                                                         By the Author
    
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   New material this edition copyright © 1998 by Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903. Originally
   published in 1947 by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.
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   Library Materials.
   Library of Congress Catalog Number: 97-13292
   ISBN: 1-56000-985-3
   Printed in the United States of America
   Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
   Eysenck, H. J. (Hans Jurgen), 1916
   Dimensions of personality / Hans Eysenck; with a new introduction
   by the author.
   p. cm
   Originally published: London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1947. With
   new introd.
   Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
   ISBN 1-56000-985-3 (pbk.: alk. paper)
   1. Personality. 2. Psychology, Pathological. I. Title.
   BF698.E92 1997
   155.25dc21                                                                97-13292
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   This record of research was carried out in collaboration with H. T. Himmelweit and W. Linford Rees, and with the help
   of M. Desai, W. D. Furneaux, H. Halstead, O. Marum, M. McKinlay, A. Petrie, and P. M. Yap.
    
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   Contents
   Introduction to the Transaction Edition                                                ix
   Foreword,
   By Professor A. Lewis                                                                 xix
   Introduction                                                                          xxi
   Chapter One: Methods and Definitions                                                    1
                                                                                           1
      Introduction
                                                                                           2
      The Experimental Population
                                                                                 10
      Theories of Temperament
                                                                                 14
      Generality versus Specificity
                                                                                 19
      Arrangement of Material
                                                                                 22
      Definitions and Concepts
                                                                                 28
      Theory of Personality Structure
                                                                                 32
      Summary
  Chapter Two: Assessments and Ratings                                           33
                                                                                 33
      A Factorial Analysis of Personality
                                                                                 37
      Neuroticism
                                                                                 41
      Theories of Neuroticism
                                                                                 51
      Introversion-Extraversion
                                                                                 56
      Theories of Introversion-Extraversion
                                                                                 61
      Questionnaire Study of Neuroticism
                                                                                 70
      Questionnaire Study of Persistence and Irritability
                                                                                 72
      Summary
  Chapter Three: Physique and Constitution                                       74
                                                                                 74
      Boby Type and Body Size
                                                                                 83
      Personality Correlates of Physique
                                                                                        95
      Autonomic Activity: Salivary Secretion
                                                                                        97
      Dark Vision
                                                                                      101
      Choline Esterase Secretion
                                                                                      103
      Exercise Response
                                                                                      106
      Oscillation (Reversal of Perspective)
                                                                                      110
      Summary
   Chapter Four: Ability and Efficiency                                               111
                                                                                      111
      Intelligence and Neurosis
                                                                                      118
      "Scatter" as a Personality Variable
                                                                                      126
      Speeded versus Unspeeded Tests
                                                                                      128
      Level of Aspiration
    
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                                                                                      144
      Personal Tempo
                                                                                      154
      Perseveration
                                                                                      158
      Persistence
                                                                                      160