''Personality and Individual Differences'' is a

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published 16 times per year by

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. It was established in 1980 by

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and is the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences. The

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are Peter K. Jonason, Julie Aitken Schermer, Aljoscha Neubauer, Michelle Yik and Colin Cooper. Previous editors include Donald H. Saklofske, Philip A. Vernon, Gísli Guðjónsson and Sybil B. G. Eysenck. The founding editor was Hans Jürgen Eysenck. The journal covers research about the structure of

personality Personality is any person's collection of interrelated behavioral, cognitive, and emotional patterns that comprise a person’s unique adjustment to life. These interrelated patterns are relatively stable, but can change over long time per ...

and other forms of

individual differences Differential psychology studies the ways in which individuals differ in their behavior and the processes that underlie it. It is a discipline that develops classifications ( taxonomies) of psychological individual differences. This is distinguish ...

, the processes which cause these individual differences to emerge, and their practical applications.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 3.951.

Notable papers

In 1985 the journal published "A revised version of the psychoticism scale", which described a revised version of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. This paper has been cited over 1600 times.citations of Eysenck, Eysenck, and Barrett 1985
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Retractions

On 17 June 2020 Elsevier announced it was retracting a 2012 article by J. Philippe Rushton and Donald Templer. The article falsely claimed that there was scientific evidence that skin color was related to aggression and sexuality in humans.

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Abstracting and indexing

Notable papers

Retractions

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