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  2. 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 ...

  3. Personality psychology - Wikipedia

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    Personal construct psychology (PCP) is a theory of personality developed by the American psychologist George Kelly in the 1950s. Kelly's fundamental view of personality was that people are like naive scientists who see the world through a particular lens, based on their uniquely organized systems of construction, which they use to anticipate ...

  4. List of social psychology theories - Wikipedia

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    Social comparison theory – suggests that humans gain information about themselves, and make inferences that are relevant to self-esteem, by comparison to relevant others. Social exchange theory – is an economic social theory that assumes human relationships are based on rational choice and cost-benefit analyses. If one partner's costs begin ...

  5. Psychological typologies - Wikipedia

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    The theory of leading tendencies laid in the basis of methodology of psychodiagnostical research, allows to understand the complex construct of personality in all its completeness. According to this theory, the integral image of the personality includes emotional sphere, individual style of cognition, the type of interpersonal behavior ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Category:Personality theories - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Personality theories" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. ... Constructivism (psychological school) D. Dispositionist;

  8. Personality type - Wikipedia

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    An early form of personality type indicator theory was the Four Temperaments system of Galen, based on the four humours model of Hippocrates; an extended five temperaments system based on the classical theory was published in 1958. One example of personality types is Type A and Type B personality theory. According to this theory, impatient ...

  9. Edwards Personal Preference Schedule - Wikipedia

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    Murray's system of human needs has influenced the making of personality tests for years. [2] By incorporating his theory into personality testing, one can determine how one may act in a specific situation, as an employee, student, parent... The list goes on and on... Following is an overview on Murray's theory.