He has written a number of important textbooks and research articles pertaining to the field of personality psychology.
Funder has worked with professor Maynard C. Krueger researching over personality judgments.
Their work consisted of trying to decipher which variables and factors result in either accurate or inaccurate personality judgments made from psychologists and "every day people".
To research this idea the two psychologists gathered up a group of children and their parents for a study.
During this experiment, the personalities of the children willing to wait the longest time for the candy contained an element of being mostly well mannered, obedient, and helpful, but not special and smart.
The brief content of this textbook is composed of six parts that serve as the main ideas summarizing the generalization of each of the 19 chapters.
Part II of the "Contents in Brief" of the textbook The Personality Puzzle Fourth Edition is titled "How People differ: The Trait Approach" (pg.
Part III is titled "The Mind and the Body: Biological approaches to Personality" (pg.
Finally, Part IV of the "Contents in Brief" concludes with the chapter twelve heading "Psychoanalysis after Freud: Neo-Freudians', Object Relations, and Current Research".
In the "Contents in Brief" of Funder's personality text book, Part V is dubbed "Experience and Awareness: Humanistic and Cross-Cultural Psychology".
Chapter fourteen, which concludes Part V, is titled "Cultural Variation in Experience, Behaviour and Personality".
Finally, Funder's part VI of the "Contents in Brief" consists of chapters fifteen through nineteen.