A Model for Personality

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. General Features of the Model

   • H. J. Eysenck

   Pages 1-37

3. The Psychophysiology of Extraversion and Neuroticism

   • Robert M. Stelmack

   Pages 38-64

4. A Survey of the Effects of Brain Lesions upon Personality

   • Graham E. Powell

   Pages 65-87

5. The Genetic and Environmental Architecture of Psychoticism, Extraversion and Neuroticism

   • D. W. Fulker

   Pages 88-122

6. Personality and Conditioning

   • A. B. Levey, I. Martin

   Pages 123-168

7. Learning, Memory and Personality

   • M. W. Eysenck

   Pages 169-209

8. Personality and Social Behaviour

   • G. D. Wilson

   Pages 210-245

9. A Critique of Eysenck’s Theory of Personality

   • J. A. Gray

   Pages 246-276

10. Epilogue

    • H. J. Eysenck

    Pages 277-282

11. Back Matter

    Pages 283-287

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H. J. Eysenck This book is not an introduction to personality research, it is not a textbook, and above all it is not a model of personality. The title, A Modelfor Personality, was chosen on purpose to indicate that we are here concerned with a discussion of how models in this field ought to be constructed, what their functions were, and whether such models or paradigms could with advantage be produced at this stage of development. One particular aspect of personality, extraversion­ introversion (E), has been chosen to exemplify the desiderata which emerge from such a discussion. It is not suggested that personality and E are synonymous - merely that this particular dimension is perhaps better known than any other, has had more experimental work done on it than any other and has acquired a better theoretical substructure, and more links with genetics and physiology, than any other. Hence it seems most likely to serve as an example of how a satisfactory model of personality might ultimately be constructed, i. e. by analogy with E. Other dimensions of personality, such as neuroticism-stability or psycho tic­ ism-superego functioning, are mentioned in the discussion, but only when they overlap or interrelate with E. The book uses E as an example to illustrate the way in which a model of personality can be constructed, but it is in no way a summary of all that is known about E.

• Extraversion
• Persönlichkeit
• aggression
• behavior
• cognition
• conflict
• emotion
• experiment
• interaction
• introversion
• perception
• personality
• physiology
• psychology
• research

• Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, London, England

  Hans J. Eysenck

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