Lewis Goldberg

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Lewis R. Goldberg is an American personality psychologist and a professor emeritus at the University of Oregon. Among his other accomplishments, Goldberg is closely associated with the Big Five taxonomy of personality. He has published well over 100 research articles and has been active on editorial boards. Goldberg is the creator of the International Personality Item Pool, or IPIP, a website featuring over 2000 public-domain personality measures.

[edit] Education

• 1949-1953 Harvard University: A.B. in Social Relations
• 1953-1958 University of Michigan: Ph.D. in Psychology

[edit] Professional history

• 1958-1960 Acting Assistant Professor, Stanford University

• 1960-present Assistant Professor to Professor Emeritus, University of Oregon

• 1961-Present Research Scientist to Senior Scientist, Oregon Research Institute

• 1962-1966 U. S. Peace Corps: Field Selection Officer

• 1966-1967 Fulbright Professor, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands

• 1970-1971 Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley

• 1973-1977 Personality and Cognition Research Review Committee: National Institute of Mental Health

• 1974-1975 Fulbright Professor, Istanbul University, Turkey

• 1979-1980 Graduate Record Examination Board Research Committee

• 1980-1986 Intelligence Division: United States Secret Service

• 1981-1982 Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study

• 1984-1988 Cognition, Emotion, and Personality Research Review Committee: National Institute of Mental Health

• 2007-Present Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board, Signal Patterns

[edit] External links

• Goldberg's homepage
• IPIP website
• Signal Patterns website