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Boeree was the author of the first online psychology texts, [3] which he made available at no cost to students and other interested parties starting in 1997. They have been translated into German, [4] Spanish, [5] and Bulgarian. [6] Two of his textbooks have been published, one on personality theories [7] and one on the history of psychology. [8]
Dr. C. George Boeree (Psychology Department, Shippensburg University) Personality Theories. Karen Horney (HTML) The same article in PDF format; Lead Article: Health and Growth (The article is devoted to Karen Horney's Neurosis and Human Growth) // MANAS Journal Volume XXIII, 1970 No. 16 April 22.
In his book Dimensions of Personality (1947) he paired Extraversion (E), which was "the tendency to enjoy positive events", especially social ones, with Neuroticism (N), which was the tendency to experience negative emotions. By pairing the two dimensions, Eysenck noted how the results were similar to the four ancient temperaments.
Gordon William 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]
The four temperament theory is a proto-psychological theory which suggests that there are four fundamental personality types: sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Most formulations include the possibility of mixtures among the types where an individual's personality types overlap and they share two or more temperaments.
Boeree in 2018. Dr. Cornelius George Boeree was a Dutch-born American psychologist and professor emeritus at Shippensburg University, specialising in personality theory and the history of psychology. Born in the Netherlands, he moved to the States as a child, and grew up in New York. He was professor emeritus at Shippensburg for over thirty years.
Theodore Millon (/ m ɪ ˈ l ɒ n /) [1] (August 18, 1928 – January 29, 2014) was an American psychologist known for his work on personality disorders.He founded the Journal of Personality Disorders and was the inaugural president of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders.
Personality-descriptive terms change over time and differ in meaning across dialects, languages, and cultures. [6] The methods used to test the lexical hypothesis are unscientific. [43] [46] Personality-descriptive language is too general to be represented by a single word class, [47] yet psycholexical studies of personality largely rely on ...