Social Psychology Book

Although Steven Reiss doesn't really go into the details of personality per se, he does outline a new and profoundly exciting way of thinking about personality in general. Too much of personality research has focussed on 'abnormality' and this is the first time since The Big Five model of personality, that someone has come up with an easy and clear new model. For obvious reasons Reiss cites his own work, which is profound, and thereby shows the validity (both face and construct) and reliability of his model.
His motivational and value based model is lightyears ahead from the 'Galenus-like' personality model currently used in psychiatry (derived from the haluciogenic mind of cocain-addict Sigmund Freud), I therefor like it a lot!
Although just a start of a new way of thinking about personality, I hope it will bring a fruitfull new line of research into this field...