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 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

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