Table of Contents

Introduction; A Brief History of Personality & Individual Differences Research in Australia; Do Personality Types Exist?; Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory & Workplace Motivation; Item Formats & Social Desirability in Personality Assessment: A Review of The Place of Forced-Choice Items; Measuring Mindfulness: The Challenge of Appropriate Sampling; Cascading Constraints: The Role of Early Developmental Deficits in The Formation of Personality Styles; Is Language Necessary For Conscious Thought? Assessing Freuds 'Word/Thing-Presentation' Distinction; Stages of Workplace Innovation: Personal & Situational Influences; Personality Determinants of Success in Medical School & Beyond: "Steady, Sane And Nice"; Does Character Moderate or Mediate The Relationship Between Temperament & Job Performance?; Does Emotional Intelligence Predict Real-World Performance?; Individual Differences in Reward Preferences: What 'Type' of Reward For Which 'Type' of Employee?; Coping with Error in the Workplace; The Big Five in Predicting Leadership Styles of University Students; Personality & the Prevalence of Psychiatric Symptoms in Medicine & Psychology Students; Unanswered Questions in Adolescent Self-Harm: A Closer Look At Impulsivity; Low Emotional Intelligence & Maladaptive Perfectionism; Perfectionism, Occupational Stress & Depression Among Australian University Students; Actors That Mediate the Narcissism-Aggression Link; Trait Displaced Aggression, Physical Health, & Life Satisfaction: A Process Model; Slime-Bags, Brownnosers & Other Creeps: Moral Disgust as an Interpersonal Avoidance System; A Comparison of Media Violence Effects For Auditory Versus Visual Modalities; Sense of Humour & Lateral Preference Using The Chimeric Faces Task; Are Creative People Tough-Minded, Curious Or Kind?; Index.