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Vulnerability and Resilience
- A chapter by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) on Vulnerability and Resilience, including general personality psychology, attachment, self concepts and self esteem.
Psychobiography
- A scholarly resource for psychobiography. Contents include an annotated bibliography of psychobiographical research, articles, and links.
Riverside Accuracy Project
- The Riverside Accuracy Project investigates the determinants of accurate personality judgments of others.
Risktaking.co.uk
- An introduction to the psychology of risk-taking behavior, focusing upon the personality profiles associated with high-risk sports and health-risk behaviors.
Alphabet Soup Personality Types
- An overview of psycholgical type.
A Science Odyssey: That's My Theory!
- In this gameshow by the Public Broadcasting System, readers try to guess the identities of three major personality theorists.
The Dimensions of Human Space
- Theoretical paper on personality type, organizational form, and the structure of human consciousness.
Personality Theories
- E-text designed for courses in personality theories, addressing psychoanalytic, behavioristic, and humanistic schools of thought, by Dr. C. George Boeree, Psychology Department, Shippensburg University.
The Personality Project
- A guide for those interested in personality theory and research, including readings, abstracts, and links, maintained by Bill Revelle at NWU.
Self-Determination Theory
- Research-based theory of human motivation and personality in social contexts. Includes researcher profiles, reference lists, selected articles for download in PDF, and research questionnaires and scoring instructions.
World Database of Happiness
- A continuous register of scientific research on subjective appreciation of life directed by Ruut Veenhoven, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Features overview, bibliography and contact details for the project participants.
Laboratory of Personality and Cognition
- The National Institute on Aging (NIA) Laboratory of Personality and Cognition, headed by Paul T. Costa.
The Peer Nomination Project
- Explores the discrepancies between self-report and informant measures in the assessment of personality and personality disorders.
Revelle.net
- Prof Revelle's (Northwestern University) site covers personal and individual differences research.
Personal Construct Psychology
- Description of a constructivist system of psychology developed by George Kelly.
Temperament.com
- Temperamental individuality in infants, children and adults. Research and practical information about temperamental characteristics in research and practice.
Personality theory on Horney's Role of Narcissism
- Novel approach to personality testing by A.M. Benis, M.D., based on the 'genetic' traits of narcissism, perfectionism and aggression.
Ptypes
- A comprehensive and systematic classification of 16 personality types. Criteria and links to pages about persons within each personality group.
Great Ideas in Personality
- This website deals with scientific research programs on the psychology of personality.
What's in a Face
- Psychology study exploring the relationships between personality, facial expressions and lasting facial features.
Clear Direction
- Provides personal and professional profiles based on the theories of Axiology.
Walter Mischel - Inconsistencies in Personality
- An article arguing that people's personalities are not as stable as many believe.
Gregorc Associates
- Training, consulting and publishing firm directed by Dr. Anthony F. Gregorc, the creator of the Mind Styles Model; originator of the four style types: Concrete Sequential (CS), Abstract Sequential (AS), Abstract Random (AR) and Concrete Random (CR); and the developer of the Gregorc Style Delineator.
St. Mary's University Blume Library: Personality Tests and Resources
- A gateway of psychology links to Myers-Briggs-related tests, online tests, and other information on personality research.
International Personality Item Pool
- a collaborative effort of personality researchers to develop advanced measures of individual differences.
Perspectives
- Existential theory of personality, including an outline of seven common personal perspectives on the world and a number of phenomenological sketches.
Personality and Consciousness
- Personality theories, processes and disorders. Maslow, Freud, Jung, Adler, Rogers, Skinner. Quotations, descriptions of work, links.
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