Chapter 1: Characterising Personality and Individual Differences: Building on Webb (1915)
Chapter 2: Trait Names and their Number: Building on Allport and Odbert (1936)
Chapter 3: Factor Analysis of Trait Names: Building on Cattell (1943)
Chapter 4: The Dimensional Model of Personality and Psychopathology: Building on Eysenck (1944)
Chapter 5: Big-5 Factors of Personality: Building on Tupes and Christal (1961)
Chapter 6: The challenge to Traits and Situationism: Building on Mischel (1968)
Chapter 7: Sensitivity to Punishment and Reward: Building on Gray (1970)
Chapter 8: Beyond Reinforcement - Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation: Building on Deci (1971)
Chapter 9: Similarity of Twin Reared Apart: Building on Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr. et al. (1990)
Chapter 10: The Evolution of Personality: Building on Buss (1991)
Chapter 11: Personality, Health and Death: Building Friedman et al (1993)
Chapter 12: Realistic ratings of personality: Building on Funder (1995)
Chapter 13: Personality Traits as State Density Distributions: Building on Fleeson (2001)
Chapter 14: The Dark Side of Personality: Building on Paulhus and Williams (2002)