I New Middle-Level Units in Personality Psychology.- 1 Personal Projects Analysis: Trivial Pursuits, Magnificent Obsessions, and the Search for Coherence.- 2 Exploring the Relations Between Motives and Traits: The Case of Narcissism.- 3 Cognitive Strategies as Personality: Effectiveness, Specificity, Flexibility, and Change.- 4 An Alternative Paradigm for Studying the Accuracy of Person Perception: Simulated Personalities.- II New Forms of Personality Coherence.- 5 On the Continuities and Consequences of Personality: A Life-Course Perspective.- 6 Life Paths of Aggressive and Withdrawn Children.- 7 Emotional Adaptation to Life Transitions: Early Impact on Integrative Cognitive Processes.- 8 Performance Evaluation and Intrinsic Motivation Processes: The Effects of Achievement Orientation and Rewards.- 9 The Problem of Life's Meaning.- 10 Conditional Patterns, Transference, and the Coherence of Personality Across Time.- 11 The Development of a Narrative Identity.- III Advances in Assessment.- 12 A Process Approach to Personality Psychology: Utilizing Time as a Facet of Data.- 13 Metatraits: Interitem Variance as Personality Assessment.- 14 Socially Desirable Responding: Some New Solutions to Old Problems.- 15 Accuracy in Personality Judgment and the Dancing Bear.- 16 Construct Validity in Personality Assessment.- IV Advances in Identifying the Structure of Personality.- 17 Why I Advocate the Five-Factor Model: Joint Factor Analyses of the NEO-PI with Other Instruments.- 18 The Optimal Level of Measurement for Personality Constructs.- 19 Towards a Taxonomy of Personality Descriptors.- V Expansion of Levels of Explanation in Personality.- 20 Identity Orientations and Self-Interpretation.- 21 Using Traits to Construct Personality.- 22 Personality Theory and Behavioral Genetics: Contributions and Issues.- 23 A Biosocial Perspective on Mates and Traits: Reuniting Personality and Social Psychology.- 24 The Evolutionary History of Genetic Variation: An Emerging Issue in the Behavioral Genetic Study of Personality.- 25 Levels of Explanation in Personality Theory.