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  2. Hans Eysenck - Wikipedia

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    Hans Jürgen Eysenck [1] (/ ˈ aɪ z ɛ ŋ k / EYE-zenk; 4 March 1916 – 4 September 1997) was a German-born British psychologist.He is best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, although he worked on other issues in psychology.

  3. Trait theory - Wikipedia

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    Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, (EPQ) ("the three-factor model"). Using factor analysis Hans Eysenck suggested that personality is reducible to three major traits: neuroticism, extraversion, and psychoticism. [6] Big Five personality traits, ("the five-factor model"). Many psychologists currently believe that five factors are sufficient ...

  4. Eysenck Personality Questionnaire - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) is a questionnaire to assess the personality traits of a person. It was devised by psychologists Hans Jürgen Eysenck and Sybil B. G. Eysenck. [1] Hans Eysenck's theory is based primarily on physiology and genetics. Although he was a behaviorist who considered learned habits of great ...

  5. Big Five personality traits - Wikipedia

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    According to Hans Eysenck's (1967) theory of personality, neuroticism is associated with low tolerance for stress or a strong dislike of change. [96] Neuroticism is a classic temperament trait that has been studied in temperament research for decades, even before it was adapted by the Five Factor Model. [ 97 ]

  6. Gordon Allport - Wikipedia

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    Gordon Willard Allport (November 11, 1897 – October 9, 1967) was an American psychologist.Allport was one of the first psychologists to focus on the study of the personality, and is often referred to as one of the founding figures of personality psychology. [1]

  7. Person–situation debate - Wikipedia

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    Gordon Allport and Henry Murray both supported the idea of a consistent personality with occasional situational influences. [4] Allport noted that "traits become predictable to the extent that identities in stimulus situations are predictable." [5] Others like Edward Thorndike viewed behavior as a composition of responses an individual has to ...

  8. Biological basis of personality - Wikipedia

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    Hans Eysenck Since the time of the ancient Greeks, humankind has attempted to explain personality through spiritual beliefs, philosophy, and psychology. Historically, studies of personality have traditionally come from the social sciences and humanities, but in the past two decades neuroscience has begun to be more influential in the ...

  9. Lexical hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Later, Apresjan's work was the basis for Sergey Golubkov's further attempts to build "the language personality theory" [27] [28] [29] which would be different from other lexically-based personality theories (e.g. by Allport, Cattell, Eysenck, etc.) due to its meronomic (partonomic) nature versus the taxonomic nature of the previously mentioned ...