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The Personality Project -- Other Web Pages

Although the Personality Project is primarily devoted to academic researchers in personality theory there are a variety of personality lists maintained by those interested in personality theory and taxonomy.

Academic personality web pages

• Research Labs
  • The International Personality Item Pool is "A Scientific Collaboratory for the Development of Advanced Measures of Personality and Other Individual Differences" maintained by Lew Goldberg at the University of Oregon.
  • Personality, Motivation and Cognition Laboratory at Northwestern University.
  • Laboratory of Personality and Cognition, Gerontology Research Center, National Institute of Aging.
  • Personality Assessment at Virginia Tech has focused primarily on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), "Big Five" instruments, and specific scales that are of use in employment related settings.
  • Animal Personality Project at U.C. Berkeley
  • Riverside Accuracy Project investigates the determinants of accurate personality judgments of others.
  • Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin
  • Attachment Laboratory at SUNY Stony Brook
  • The Peer Nomination Project at the University of Virginia
  • Adult Attachment Laboratory at U.C. Davis
• Course Syllabi from around the world (suggestions and additions needed)
  • Individual Differences from Colin Cooper, Queens University, Belfast.
  • Personality theory from Derek Roger, York University.
  • Personality Theory by George Boeree of Shippensburg University includes a very thorough online set of personality readings.
  • Personality Theory from John Johnson, Pennsylvania State University.
  • Foundations of Personality By Douglas A. Davis, Haverford College is a true "hyper syllabus".
  • Great ideas in personality by Scott Acton, Northwestern University.
  • Personality Theory by Lisabeth Roemr, U. Mass, Boston
  • Theories of Personality, by Daniel Kessler, Longwood College
  • Personality Assessment By Douglas A. Davis, Haverford College.
  • Tests and Individual Differences by T.B. Rogers, University of Calgary
  • Personality Assessment. Niels Waller, University of California, Davis.
  • Psychological Assessment by Michael Gurtman, University of Wisconsin
  • Personality, Biology & Society: A Resource Manual of Quotations about the Psychology of Individual and Group Differences, while not technically a course syllabus is an important teaching resource. Chris Brand, University of Edinburgh.
  • Personality Research from William Revelle, Northwestern University
  • Psychometric Theory from William Revelle, Northwestern University.
  • Introduction to Statistics in Psychological Research from Gary McClelland, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Graduate Statistics for Psychologists from Gary McClelland, University of Colorado
  • See syllabi for other psychology courses at the World Lecture Hall at the University of Texas.
  • An index to various pages devoted to statistics.
• Job Announcements --

• Personal home pages of personality researchers:
  • Paul Barrett, Liverpool University
  • Lisa Feldman Barrett, Boston College
  • Chris Brand, University of Edinburgh
  • Daryl Bem, Cornell University
  • George Boeree, Shippensburg University
  • Jennifer Campbell, University of British Columbia
  • Lee Anna Clark, University of Iowa.
  • Colin Cooper Queens University, Belfast
  • Paul Costa, National Institute of Aging.
  • Phebe Cramer, Williams College
  • Douglas Davis Haverford College
  • Ian Deary, Edinburgh University
  • Michael Eysenck, University of London.
  • Michael Gurtman, University of Wisconsin
  • Don Fowles, University of Iowa.
  • Frank Fujita, University of Indiana
  • David Funder, U.C. Riverside
  • Lew Goldberg, University of Oregon
  • Michael Gurtman University of Wisconsin
  • Ronald Henss, Universitaet des Saarlandes
  • Michael E.Houlihan, Wake Forest University.
  • John Johnson Pennsylvania State University.
  • David Kenny, University of Connecticut
  • Randy Larsen, University of Michigan.
  • Dan McAdams, Northwestern University
  • Gary McClelland, University of Colorado
  • Robert R. McCrae, National Institute of Aging.
  • Albert Mehrabian's home page discusses personality measurement, particularly from the point of view of his PAD temperament model
  • Tom Oltmans, University of Virginia
  • Dan Ozer, University of California, Riverside
  • Del Paulhus, University of British Columbia
  • William Revelle, Northwestern University
  • Rick Robins, University of California, Davis
  • T.B. Rogers, University of Calgary
  • Jim Russell, University of British Columbia
  • Cheryl Rusting, University of Buffalo
  • Gerard Saucier, University of Oregon
  • Phil Shaver, University of California, Davis.
  • Frank Sulloway, University of California, Berkeley
  • Georg Stenberg, University of Lund.
  • Steve Sutton, University of Miami
  • Del Thiessen, University of Texas
  • Tim Trull, University of Missouri
  • Eric Turkheimer, University of Virginia
  • Niels Waller, University of California, Davis.
  • Everett Waters, SUNY Stony Brook
  • David Williams, University of Pennsylvania
  • Werner Wittman, University of Mannheim
  • Marvin Zuckerman, University of Delaware
• Online Personality Research Projects
  • An online study of personality and performance from the Universisty of Minnesota
  • Investigation of the self-observation of creative process, Temple University
  • See also the list of online Social and Personality experiments maintained by Scott Plous at Wesleyan University.
  • Online research Projects (taken from the APS)
  • How to put studies on the web by Paul Kenyon, University of Plymouth

In addition to these, there are a number of websites that provide information of particular use to personality researchers:

• IDANET Individual Differences and Assement Network is "a mailbase administered network for students, academic researchers and professionals involved in the definition, theory, and measurement of individual differences. The net members are drawn from the areas of experimental, clinical, and educational research, encompassing fields as diverse as psychophysiological assessment, psychometrics, personality theory and measurement, and cognitive ability. The range of specialisations encompassed within individual differences research provides for a rather wider content area than most other nets. However, that is why individual differences research remains so interesting."
• The Guide to Social Psychology Laboratories maintained by Eliot Smith at Purdue includes a set of Cognitive-Social Reprints from a number of different researchers.
• The Social Psychology Network maintained by Scott Plous at Wesleyan University is a very complete set of readings and links primarily for social psychologists. See particularly the list of research tools including search engines, lists of software and other reference works.
• Neuropsychology Central offers links to resources for neuropsych assessment, brain imaging, medical and research laboratories dedicated to neuropsychological theory and practice.
• A list of psychophysiological laboratories is maintained by the University of Southern California.
• The Geneva Emotion Research Group has useful links and information about personality and emotion research.
• MedWeb: Mental Health, Psychiatry, Psychology an extensive list of psychology related resources for mental health professionals.
• A simple brain map. shows basic brain structure and links for those concerned with the effects of brain injury.
• Assessment & Evaluation on the Internet -- ERIC clearing house Internet resources of particular interest to the assessment community. Gopher sites, web sites, and listservs are identified and discussed.
• Statistical information is available from A Guide to Statistical Computing Resources on the Internet or Statistics on the Web
• Computer programs for Macintosh for data collection and analysis are available from the Society for Computers in Psychology archives at St. Olaf's college.
• Information about how to prepare effective visual presentations is available from Kansas State University.
• Computer programs for psychologists are available from the COMPSYCH (Computerized Software Information Service for Psychologists) archive. This includes a number of computerized tests of personality of various vintages (most of the programs seem to have been developed before 1991.) An index to the software at this archive site is also available.
• A searchable index of shareware for statistical analyses and other applications is maintained by the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.
• An ongoing e-seminar on Signalling Theory and Animal Communication is relevant to those interested in animal models in the study of evolutionary systems and sexual selection.
• Personal Construct Psychology and the Personal Construct Research Group offer applications of George Kelly's Repetory Grid Test technique whic may be applied to organize knowledge structures about people as well as situations.

Non academic personality web pages

Many of these pages have been influenced by the personality taxonomies of Jung: as operationalized in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) or the Keirsey Temperament Sorter. Others represent more diverse approaches to the field of personality. The Personality Project is designed to aid those interested in learning more about the field of personality, particularly as seen by academic personality researchers.

• Postings on the sci.psychology.personality newsgroup have become very MBTI oriented, although there are the occasional posts by academic personality researchers.
• The alt.psychology.personality newsgroup and a partial (from 93-95) archive and set of Frequently Asked Questions about personality typing
• The Creativity Home Page includes information discussing the creative process and a very extensive list of books related to creativity. Unfortunately, it seems to have vanished from the web.
• Personality and Consciousness is a web page devoted to selected personality theorists and was formerly called Pencil Sketches of Personality. Developed by Eric Pettifor. It includes links to Adler, Freud, Jung, Kelly, and Rogers.
• MetaSelf -- A Visual Aid to Being Human This site introduces MetaSelf, a powerful visual model of the self and its place in the world. The model is easy to understand because it is constructed out of familiar metaphors in English, especially metaphors based on things we all share -- our bodily structure and our experience of space and gravity. A metaphorical "Big 5"?
• Pages specifically discussing the Myer-Briggs Type Indicator and offering some caution (missing?) as well as an on-line application of the Keirsey typing test, a close relative of the MBTI.
• The Personality Index organizes home pages of those who report MBTI scores and gives brief descriptions of this typology system.
• For a parody of personality tests and personality typing, look at Subintellect's Personality Test (missing?)
• Commercial sites discussing the application of personality measurement (usually using some form of a type measure rather than using conventional personality research instruments) include a number of sites. Most of these are uncritical proponents of the MBTI and fail to mention alternatives to "typing". These sites are listed here without recommendation and merely for information purposes. Unfortunately, although there are a number of serious criticisms of the use of "type" instruments available in the literature, none of them seem to be available online. For discussions of personality from a more research based approach, see the references under Personality-Readings.
  • The Association for Psychological Type offers training in the use of the MBTI.
  • The Center for the Application of Psychological Type seems to market training in the use of and interpretations of the MBTI.
  • Consulting Psychologists Press publishes the Meyers Briggs Type Inventory as well as the Strong Interest Inventory and California Psychological Inventory (CPI) and offers training materials for professionals.
  • High Performance Systems, Inc maintains a partial list of "type" sites and offers training in using MBTI and similar instruments for leadership and team effectiveness.
  • The Leadership Dimension actively markets the use of the MBTI
  • The Temperament Research Institute offers training in the use of the MBTI and the Keirsey measures of "type".

Comments, criticism, suggestions for additions or deletions, etc. should be sent to
William Revelle, Director
Graduate Program in Personality
Department of Psychology
Northwestern University
email: revelle@northwestern.edu

Last modified January 1, 1998 Back to the Personality Project