Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are
"The author unearths a few everyday characteristics shared by people who say they are happy, including good health, a feeling of autonomy, and social correctiveness.  To that list, one might add browsing through this thought-provoking book."--O: The Oprah Magazine, onHappiness"Excellent survey of the subject-a lucid, intelligent, and thoughtful essay."--Lancet"An authoritative, challenging, even profound analysis of the most up-to-date research into its subject."--Winston Fletcher, THES"The five factors or dimensions of personality are extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and openness.  Proceeding in the manner of pop-psych text, Nettle cites clinical cases to illustrate each trait.... Psychology for the general reader is very seldom this substantial and jargon-free."--Sci-Tech Spotlight"A fun, cute, engaging book about the state of the art in personality research...offers clear, succinct, engaging descriptions of these [five-factors], calling on current research as much as on examples of individuals...The soundness of its underlying research and its extensive endnotes and references gives this little book empirical weight."--Choice