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• Chapter 1 Personality Traits
• Chapter 2 Relationships and Well-Being
• Chapter 3 Positive Relationships
• Chapter 4 Positive Relationships
• Chapter 5 Emotional Intelligence
• Chapter 6 Emotion Experience and Well-Being
• Chapter 7 Yoga, Buddhism, Relationships and Personality
• Chapter 8 Happiness: The Empirical Science of Subjective Well-Being and the Philosophy of Tibetan Buddhism
• Chapter  9: Nature and Nurture
• Chapter 10: Self-Regulation and Conscientiousness
• Chapter 11: Self and Identity
• Chapter 12: Conformity and Obedience
• Chapter 13: Prejudice, Discrimination, and Stereotyping
• Chapter 14: Cooperation

Chapter 7: This is an edited and adapted chapter based on an original chapter Mark Kelland, Personality Theory in a Cultural Context. OpenStax CNX. Nov 4, 2015 http://cnx.org/contents/9484b2cb-a393-45aa-96bf-e9ae9380dd3e@1.1.

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