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The Personality Project -- Related Web Pages
The Personality Project is primarily devoted to academic researchers in personality theory and is meant to provide links to other scientific labs and researchers. In addition, there are a variety of personality lists maintained by non-acedemics who are interested in personality theory and taxonomy.
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
Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator and offering some
caution (now 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 (Unfortunately this has gone missing and I can not find it. Any suggestions would be welcome.)
- 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.
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