Talk:Personality psychology

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[edit] Confusing phrase

"with Cattell using oblique, Eysenck orthogonal, rotation to analyse the factors..." What does this mean? 128.12.59.246 01:17, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

It means that they used different methods in factor analysis. Orthogonal factors are completely unrelated. Oblique factors are only partially independent of one another. Ewen 08:03, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Traits section

there are some names that need to be fixed, and im not sure if they are supposed to be bold or if theyre supposed to be links to something else

[edit] Yes to merging in Personality Psychology

I think they should be merged. For more discussion go to Talk:PersonaltyRsugden 23:44, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

I agree, Personality psychology is relating to personality. New-plague 23:13, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Done. See talk page at "Personality type". --Halcatalyst 03:12, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Extraversion / Extroversion

I understood that Jung coined the term extravert and spelled it that way. Can anyone confirm? TeamCoachingNetwork 06:34, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure about Jung, but I know Eysenck spelled it "extraversion," and this is also the spelling used by McCrae and Costa in their Big Five personality test, the NEO PI-R. I prefer extraversion because it suggests that these folks go outside of or "extra to" themselves. Jcbutler 21:35, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

"Extraversion" is the correct term, both with regard to how Jung spelled it and the way it is derived from Latin. "Extroversion" is what Microsoft Word's spell-check forces on you for unclear reasons. [Oliver C. Schultheiss] 13:48, 3 January 2007

[edit] Individual differences

This may require the knowledge of experts. I have found articles that seem related to personality psychology and I'm not sure if these discplines are independent from personality. In any case, I need someone to take a look and give your responses. The articles are individual differences psychology and differential psychology. --Janarius 00:20, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clean up

Upon looking into the various sections, some of them seem to not relate to personality and more into other subjects. Please make edits that is relevant to the mechanism and theories that define personality and not about treatment or the history of a theory. these overlap with other articles and some of them are more approriate to others.--Janarius 19:58, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Agreement, especially with respect to cognitive theories
I wish to express how much I agree with the last comment - certainly I felt the section on cognitive theories in this article was less about cognitive approaches to personality than about cognitive therapy (I really wonder whether a section on Albert Ellis belongs here). I have, therefore, added a little to this section, and added references at the end. I do not have full references to the papers by Lefcourt (1966) and Rotter (1966) at present (I know that these came respectively from Psychological Bulletin and Psychological Monographs). If any one wishes to extend my contributions, please do, as the section on cognitive models could certainly receive some major edits. ACEO 20:59, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
I finally got around to some cleanup on this page. Specifically, I folded Type A into trait theory, revised the intro and definition, put the reference section in APA style, and cleaned up the formatting, along with other odds and ends. Does anyone else think that the psychoanalytic section is too long, and that objects relations should be included under that section?
There is still much that needs to be done. Someone really needs to go through each major heading revising and editing where appropriate. Jcbutler 21:32, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
  • I believe so myself that many parts of the article is overlapping with other topics and some are too long, I'm addressing this issue myself with some anonymous users (someone from Keene State College who put redundant statements. (see my talk page)--Janarius 14:28, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
Can someone do something about the Behavioural model section. Particularly the part about Pavlov's research, which is excruciating. 163.1.143.122 23:13, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Can some one please indicate which edition of the Ryckman book the 2004 edition, cited at the end list of references, is, please? This book has gone through several editions. ACEOREVIVED 19:43, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Duplicated passage

The start of the article - referring to Roman masks and the three different approaches to personality is duplicated lower down. Is this intentional? It's a bit odd if it is. 212.183.136.194 (talk) 07:28, 16 May 2008 (UTC) Ugh! Fix this grammer!