pt. 1. Designing a personality study -- The role of theory in personality research / Dan P. McAdams and Jennifer L. Pals -- Designing and implementing longitudinal studies / M. Brent Donnellan and Rand D. Conger -- Experimental approaches to the study of personality / William Revelle -- Behavior genetic designs / Robert F. Krueger and Jennifer L. Tackett -- Idiographic personality : the theory and practice of experience sampling / Amlin S. Conner, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Michele M. Tugade, and Howard Tennen -- Psychobiography and case study methods / Alan C. Elms -- Mining archival data / Phebe Cramer -- Using the Internet for personality research : what can be done, how to do it, and some concerns / R. Chris Fraley -- The null hypothesis significance-testing debate and its implications for personality research / R. Chris Fraley and Michael J. Marks -- Cross-cultural personality research : conceptual and methodological issues / Verónica Benet-Martínez -- Measuring personality in nonhuman animals / Simine Vazire, Samuel D. Gosling, Audrey S. Dickey, and Steven J. Schapiro -- pt. 2. Methods for assessing personality at different levels of analysis -- Taxonomies, trends, and integrations / Kenneth H. Craik -- The self-report method / Delroy L. Paulhus and Simine Vazire -- The construct validation approach to personality scale construction / Leonard J. Simms and David Watson -- Observer ratings of personality / Robert R. McCrae and Alexander Weiss -- Behavioral observation / R. Michael Furr and David C. Funder -- Content coding of open-ended responses / Barbara A. Woike -- Personality assessment at a distance / Anna V. Song and Dean Keith Simonton -- Measuring implicit motives / Oliver C. Schultheiss and Joyce S. Pang -- Lives lived in milliseconds : using cognitive methods in personality research / Michael D. Robinson -- Patient and neuroimaging methodologies / Jennifer S. Beer and Michael V. Lombardo -- Physiological measures / Lisa M. Diamond and Kimberly D. Otter-Henderson -- The Human Genome Project and personality : what we can learn about our inner and outer selves through our genes / Richard P. Ebstein, Rachel Bachner-Melman, Salomon Israel, Lubov Nemanov, and Inga Gritsenko -- pt. 3. Analyzing and interpreting personality data -- Toward modern psychometrics : application of item response theory models in personality research / Julien Morizot, Andrew T. Ainsworth, and Steven P. Reise -- Factor analysis in personality research / Kibeom Lee and Michael C. Ashton -- Applications of structural equation modeling in personality research / Rick H. Hoyle -- The importance of being valid : reliability and the process of construct validation / Oliver P. John and Christopher J. Soto -- Evaluating effect size in personality research / Daniel J. Ozer -- Multilevel modeling in personality research / John B. Nezlek -- Studying personality processes : explaining change in between-persons longitudinal and within-person multilevel models / William Fleeson -- The analysis of longitudinal data in personality research / Daniel K. Mroczek -- Person-centered structural analyses / James W. Grice -- Multiple regression : applications of the basics and beyond in personality research / Stephen G. West, Leona S. Aiken, Wei Wu, and Aaron B. Taylor -- Moderator and mediator models in personality research : a basic introduction / William F. Chaplin -- Computational modeling of personality as a dynamical system / Yuichi Shoda -- Meta-analysis in personality psychology : a primer / Brent W. Roberts, Nathan R. Kuncel, Wolfgang Viechthauer, and Tim Bogg -- What kinds of methods do personality psychologists use? : a survey of journal editors and editorial board members / Richard W. Robins, Jessica L. Tracy, and Jeffrey W. Sherman -- Author index -- Subject index.