Brain substrates of emotion and temperament / Joseph E. Steinmetz -- Neural bases of infant temperament / Charles A. Nelson -- A psychobiological approach to the development of temperament / Mary K. Rothbart, Douglas Derryberry, and Michael I. Posner -- The concepts of arousal and arousability as used in temperament studies / Jan Strelau -- Quantitative genetics and molecular genetics / Robert Plomin and Kimberly J. Saudino -- Psychoendocrine studies of temperament and stress in early childhood : expanding current models / Megan R. Gunnar -- Individual differences in the biological aspects of temperament / Susan D. Calkins and Nathan A. Fox -- Impulsive unsocialized sensation seeking : the biological foundations of a basic dimension of personality / Marvin Zuckerman -- Methodological implications of the impending engagement of temperament and biology / Warren O. Eaton
(cont) Toward practical uses for biological concepts of temperament / John E. Bates, Theodore D. Wachs, and Robert N. Emde -- Behavioral research in the brave new world of neuroscience and temperament : a guide to the biologically perplexed / Theodore D. Wachs and Beverly King
Summary
This book brings together leading examples of the recent research on the biological origins of temperament-related behavior. The book was intended to be useful not only for behaviorally oriented researchers who have found it difficult to keep up with the exciting developments in neuroscience, but also for biologically oriented researchers who might gain a greater appreciation for how their skills and knowledge might be creatively applied to the socially and scientifically important questions emerging from research on human individual differences. The chapters presented here describe advances in the description and understanding of the brain processes associated with temperament-like behavioral events and more molar individual difference patterns. At the same time, they suggest alternatives to the traditional ways in which one thinks about and designs research on temperament. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved)
