Biography
Colin Cooper is a British psychologist whose teaching and writing focus on psychometrics, personality, and individual differences. He taught for many years at Queen's University Belfast before retiring to Canada. Routledge's Individual Differences and Personality—now in a fifth edition—originated as his Arnold introduction to trait models, intelligence, mood, motivation, and modern applications from occupational selection to health. He served as President of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (2021–2023) and has received British Psychological Society recognition for his textbooks.
Published writings & editorial work
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- Individual Differences
First published 1997 · Edward Arnold / Psychology Press
Author
Colin Cooper's undergraduate text on psychological individual differences — traits, cognitive abilities, personality structure and psychometric principles — widely linked from personality-research resource pages through legacy arnoldpublishers.com WebBook URLs (ISBN 0340662743).