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  2. Gregory J. Feist - Wikipedia

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    They found that personality predicted lifetime creative achievement over and above intellect and potential. [7] In 2019, Feist published a functional theory of creativity that argues that having personality traits of high in openness to experience, introversion, self-confidence functions to lower the threshold for creative thought and ...

  3. Reversal theory - Wikipedia

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    Reversal theory is a structural, phenomenological theory of personality, motivation, and emotion in the field of psychology. [1] It focuses on the dynamic qualities of normal human experience to describe how a person regularly reverses between psychological states, reflecting their motivational style, the meaning they attach to a situation at a given time, and the emotions they experience.

  4. Wikipedia : WikiProject Psychology/List of Personality Theories

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    Enneagram of Personality (Primarily motivation/fixation based) - (circumplex); Jung's Psychological types; Ptypes personality types (yes, Dave Kelly is an independent researcher, but he has been referenced in at least one book IIRC, and has been referenced all over the place online - he exists and makes an impact with his work, from my limited perspective, whether it's enough to be put in ...

  5. Category:Motivational theories - Wikipedia

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    It should only contain pages that are Motivational theories or lists of Motivational theories, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about Motivational theories in general should be placed in relevant topic categories .

  6. McGuire's Motivations - Wikipedia

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    McGuire’s Psychological Motivations is a classification system that organizes theories of motives into 16 categories. The system helps marketers to isolate motives likely to be involved in various consumption situations.

  7. List of social psychology theories - Wikipedia

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    Self-determination theory – is an organismic theory of behavior and personality development that is particularly concerned with how social-contextual factors support or thwart people's intrinsic motivation, social integration, and well-being through the respective satisfaction or deprivation of posited basic psychological needs for competence ...

  8. Biological basis of personality - Wikipedia

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    Eysenck's three-factor model of personality was a causal theory of personality based on activation of reticular formation and limbic system. The reticular formation is a region in the brainstem that is involved in mediating arousal and consciousness. The limbic system is involved in mediating emotion, behavior, motivation, and long-term memory.

  9. Murray's system of needs - Wikipedia

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    In 1938, the American psychologist Henry Murray developed a system of needs as part of his theory of personality, which he named personology.Murray argued that everyone had a set of universal basic needs, with individual differences among these needs leading to the uniqueness of personality through varying dispositional tendencies for each need; in other words, a specific need is more ...