Introduction: The 1937 Allport and Stagner Textbooks in Personality Psychology K.H. Craik. Historical and and Personal Background of the 1937 Texts: Allport's Personality and Allport's Personality A.C. Elms. Current State of Personality Psychology and its Textbooks: Pattern and Organizaiton L.A. Pervin. Presentday Perspectives on Basic Issues: The Individual and the Single Case: Describing Lives B.J. Cohler. Motives and the Self: Current Status of the Motive Concept R.A. Emmons. Judging Persons: Judgements of Personality and Personality Itself D.C. Funder. Personality Assessment and Prediction: The Scientific Credibility of Commonsense Psychology G.J.O. Fletcher. Epilogue: An Optimistic Forecast R.T. Hogan. 12 additional articles. Index.