A rare point of agreement between personality and social psychologists is that behavior is a function of both the person and the environment. Leary and Hoyle (professors of psychology and neuroscience at Duke U.) introduce this volume of 39 chapters that presents behavioral research and analyses toward reconciling this historical schism. Sections are organized by dispositional factors: interpersonal (e.g., introversion-extroversion, gender identity); emotional (e.g., depression, happiness, hostility); cognitive (e.g., openness to experience, belief in a just world); motivational (e.g., achievement, belonging, sensation-seeking); and self-related dispositions (e.g., self-consciousness, self-monitoring). Researchers in fields including the social sciences, counseling, law, education, and marketing should find this handbook of interest. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)