Re:[tips] Famous people who have taken a (credible) personality test

2011-10-15 Thread Allen Esterson
Mike Palij drew attention to the analysis of Hitler by Henry Murray http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_of_the_Personality_of_Adolph_Hitler I recall from perusing the analysis some years ago that it was Freudian based. This is confirmed from this part of the report: American psychiatry was in

Re: [tips] Famous people who have taken a (credible) personality test

2011-10-14 Thread Jim Clark
Hi I've used MMPI profiles for Jeffrey Dahmer and Charles Manson in lectures ... elevated psychopathic deviant scores, but also other scales. I'm not sure where I got the profiles from. An MMPI profile for Dahmer is shown in Nichols (2006) J of Personality Assessment, 86, 242-262 Take care

re: [tips] Famous people who have taken a (credible) personality test

2011-10-14 Thread Mike Palij
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:01:29 -0700, Michael Britt wrote: >I'm putting together an idea for a research study but there's one piece that >I'm not sure how to obtain: does anyone know of a well known person who has >taken a personality test (perhaps the MMPI) and the results of the test are >obtain

Re: [tips] Famous people who have taken a (credible) personality test

2011-10-14 Thread Brandon, Paul K
I've often suspected that the MMPI would be just as effective with a dead subject, or even a salmon. On Oct 14, 2011, at 8:01 AM, Michael Britt wrote: > I'm putting together an idea for a research study but there's one piece that > I'm not sure how to obtain: does anyone know of a well known pe

[tips] Famous people who have taken a (credible) personality test

2011-10-14 Thread Michael Britt
I'm putting together an idea for a research study but there's one piece that I'm not sure how to obtain: does anyone know of a well known person who has taken a personality test (perhaps the MMPI) and the results of the test are obtainable? The person could be dead or alive. Could be a writer,