1. The Emergence of Personality, Dan P. McAdams

2. The Evolutionary Context of Personality Development, Marco Del Giudice

3. Theoretical Concepts in the Genetics of Personality Development, Elliot M. Tucker-Drob & Daniel A. Briley

4. The Development of a Person: A Relational–Developmental Systems Perspective, Richard M. Lerner & Jacqueline V. Lerner

II. Social Actors: From Temperament to Personality Traits

5. Personality Neuroscience: A Developmental Perspective, Colin G. DeYoung & Timothy A. Allen

6. Emotion Reactivity and Regulation: A Developmental Model of Links between Temperament and Personality, Kristin A. Buss, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Alicia Vallorani, & Berenice Anaya

7. Extraversion: Description, Development, and Mechanisms, Luke D. Smillie, Margaret L. Kern, & Mirko Uljarevic

8. Negative Emotionality and Neuroticism from Childhood through Adulthood: A Lifespan Perspective, Rebecca L. Shiner

9. Lifespan Development of Conscientiousness, Joshua J. Jackson & Patrick Hill

10. Agreeableness, Jennifer L. Tackett, Maciel Hernández, & Nancy Eisenberg

11. The Structure, Measurement, and Development of Openness to Experience across Adulthood, Ted Schwaba

12. Temperament and Personality Trait Development in the Family: Interactions and Transactions with Parenting from Infancy through Adolescence, Liliana J. Lengua, Maria A. Gartstein, & Peter Prinzie

13. Culture, Context, and the Development of Traits, Helena R. Slobodskaya

14. Stability and Change in Personality Traits over the Lifespan, Wiebke Bleidorn & Christopher J. Hopwood

III. Motivated Agents: The Development of Goals and Values

15. Attachment and Social Development within a Life-History Perspective, Jeffry A. Simpson & Rachel E. Jones

16. Needs, Motives, and Personality Development: Unanswered Questions and Exciting Potentials, Kennon M. Sheldon & Julia Schüler

17. Achievement Strivings: Motives and Goals that Promote Competence, Amanda M. Durik & K. Ann Renninger

18. Personality Development in Adulthood: A Goal Perspective, Alexandra M. Freund, Christopher M. Napolitano, & Joshua L. Rutt

19. Development of Self-Esteem across the Lifespan, Ulrich Orth & Richard W. Robins

20. Moral Development and Moral Values: Evolutionary and Neurobiological Influences, Darcia Narvaez

21. Religion, Spirituality, and the Agential Self, Paul Wink, Michele Dillon, & Dan Farina

22. Culture and the Development of Motives, Values, and Social Selves, Gary S. Gregg

IV. Autobiographical Authors: Life Stories and the Search for Meaning

23. Developmental Foundations of the Narrative Author in Early Mother–Child Reminiscing, Robyn Fivush, Elaine Reese, & Jordan A. Booker

24. Narrative Identity in Adolescence and Adulthood: Pathways of Development, Kate C. McLean & Jennifer P. Lilgendahl

25. Narrative Identity Development across the Lifespan and Psychological Well-Being, Jonathan M. Adler

26. Narrative, Identity, and Identity Statuses: Reflections on the Kaleidoscopic Self, Ruthellen Josselson

27. The Dialogic Development of Personality: Narrative, Culture, and the Study of Lives, Phillip L. Hammack & Erin E. Toolis

V. Applications and Integrations

28. Personality Development and Health, Sarah E. Hampson

29. The Development of Subjective Well-Being across the Lifespan, Nathan Hudson, Richard E. Lucas, & M. Brent Donnellan

30. Personality Development and Internalizing Psychopathology, C. Emily Durbin

31. Personality Development and Externalizing Psychopathology, Michelle M. Martel, Tess E. Smith, & Christine A. Lee

32. The Development of Personality Disorders, Andrew M. Chanen & Katherine M. Thompson

33. Personality Development and Relationships in Adulthood, Jennifer M. Senia & M. Brent Donnellan