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The measurement of the construct self-esteem has always been a controversial topic in the field of personality psychology. While most psychologists agree on how to define self-esteem, the measurement of the construct is another matter. In this book, Peter Weiss and colleagues discuss different methods of measuring self-esteem and describe differences in how these tests are constructed. They note that self- esteem tests can be categorized along two dimensions: They either measure self-esteem using a unitary score or a disparity measure, and they are either idiographic or nomothetic in focus....

Half a century after the collapse of the Nazi regime and the Third Reich, scholars from a range of fields continue to examine the causes of Nazi Germany. An increasing number of young Americans are attempting to understand the circumstances that led to the rise of the Nazi party and the subsequent Holocaust, as well as the implication such events may have for today as the world faces a resurgence of neo-Nazism, ethnic warfare, and genocide.

In the months following World War II, extensive psychiatric and psychological testing was performed on over 200 Nazis in an effort to understand the...