This APA web-page offers a variety of vignettes into contemporary issues involving personality development and a psychologist ability to predict personality changes. While most of the topics are concerned with matters of cultural difference and terrorism, some of the pieces deal with more general questions, such as "how can we predict levels of aggression in violent interpersonal assaults?" (
http://www.apa.org/ppo/issues/svignetteterror2.html
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Sponsored by Bard College, this website offers you a chance to explore issues regarding continuity and change in biology, cognition, social and personality domains, and various other contexts. (
http://inside.bard.edu/academic/specialproj/darling/adolesce.htm
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Read all about this research (published in 2000 by the APA) that suggests a link between sensation seeking and smoking. (
http://www.apa.org/releases/sensation.html
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