Personality defined: the issue of stability. Stability of personality: observations and evaluations / Robert R. McCrae and Paul T. Costa, Jr. -- Situation-behavior profiles as a locus of consistency in personality / Walter Mischel, Yuichi Shoda, and Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton -- Moving personality beyond the person-situation debate / William Fleeson -- Role of biological mechanisms in personality. Biological bases of maternal attachment / Dario Maestripieri -- Role of prenatal maternal stress in child development / Janet A. DiPietro -- Psychobiology of stress / Margaret E. Kemeny -- Novelty seeking and reward: implications for the study of high-risk behaviors / Rick A. Bevins -- Moving beyond the heritability question: new directions in behavioral genetic studies of personality / Kimberly J. Saudino

Personality in action: intrapersonal processes. Emotion regulation in adulthood: timing is everything / James J. Gross -- Dynamic integration: affect, cognition, and the self in adulthood / Gisela Labouvie-Vief -- Personality as performance categorization tendencies and their correlates / Michael D. Robinson -- Personality, strategic behavior, and daily-life problem solving / Nancy Cantor and Robert E. Harlow -- Seeking "truth," finding despair: some unhappy consequences of a negative self-concept / William B. Swann, Jr. -- Self-esteem, narcissism, and aggression: does violence result from low self-esteem or from threatened egotism? / Roy F. Baumeister, Brad J. Bushman, and W. Keith Campbell -- Personality in relational contexts. Temperament and attachment; individuals and relationships / H.H. Goldsmith and Catherine Harman -- Social-cognitive model of transference: experiencing past relationships in the present / Susan M. Andersen and Michele S. Berk -- Making sense of self-esteem / Mark R. Leary -- Siblings' direct and indirect contributions to child development / Gene H. Brody -- Marital conflict: correlates, structure, and context / Frank D. Fincham -- Forgiveness: who does it and how do they do it? / Michael E. McCullough

Implications of personality for well-being. Resilience in development / Emmy E. Werner -- Loneliness and peer relations in childhood / Steven R. Asher and Julie A. Paquette -- Stress, positive emotion, and coping / Susan Folkman and Judith Tedlie Moskowitz -- Fleeting signs of the course of life: facial expression and personal adjustment / Dacher Keltner, Ann M. Kring, and George A. Bonanno -- Happy as an extraverted clam? The role of personality for subjective well-being / Kristina M. DeNeve -- Intelligence predicts health and longevity, but why? / Linda S. Gottfredson and Ian J. Deary -- Thin-ideal internalization: mounting evidence for a new risk factor for body-image disturbance and eating pathology / J. Kevin Thompson and Eric Stice