Best Traits
Gordon Allport (1897–1967) was an American psychologist who pioneered trait theory, introduced the distinction between idiographic and nomothetic approaches, and wrote the foundational personality text 'Pattern and Growth in Personality' (1961).
Robert R. McCrae is an American personality psychologist known for research on stable individual differences across adulthood and cultures. Working extensively with Paul T. Costa Jr., he helped develop the five-factor model of personality and the NEO inventories, which assess neuroticism, extraversi...
Paul T. Costa Jr. is an American psychologist known for research on personality traits, adult development, and aging. In a long collaboration with Robert R. McCrae, he helped develop the five-factor model of personality and the NEO Personality Inventory, which measures neuroticism, extraversion, ope...
Hans Eysenck (1916–1997) was a German-British psychologist who developed a influential three-factor personality model (extraversion, neuroticism, psychoticism) and was a prominent critic of Freudian psychoanalysis.
