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I would like to create a relatively "complete" list of well known and/or "frequently" used personality theories. I'd like to make this a navbox, or "List of..." page, eventually. I'm making this as a project subpage as it doesn't belong in wikipedia main at this point in its development (and will go unnoticed to this WikiProject community as a personal subpage).
Pulling some introductory material from [[1]], [2], etc..., as well as what I can recall off the top of my head about the subject:
Typological theories
editPosition/Situational-based theories
edit- Birth order (ie. Alfred Adler
- Belbin Team Roles (Primarily action based)
- Blood type theory (as blood type is used to describe personality)
- Richard Herrnstein's extension of B.F. Skinner's hypotheses
Other
edit- Enneagram of Personality (Primarily motivation/fixation based) - (circumplex)
- Jung's Psychological types
- Ptypes personality types (yes, Dave Kelly is an independent researcher, but he has been referenced in at least one book IIRC, and has been referenced all over the place online - he exists and makes an impact with his work, from my limited perspective, whether it's enough to be put in wikipedia is a question others can answer)
- Benxiger's Brain Type theory (??)
- The 4 (or 5) Humours/Temperaments
- Murray's Needs
- Type A/B theory
- Coping mechanisms (ie. Heinz Kohut)
- Karen Horney's Theory of Neurosis
Archetype-based theories
editAspect-based theories
edit(Aspects differing from factors in the granularity and assignment of what's relevant)
- Astrology
- Freud's Ego, superego and id, and psychosexual stages and fixations
Factor-based theories
edit- Big 5 (with hypothetical "types")
The psychological aspects of Chinese "5 Element theory"
- Eysenck's 3-factor model
- DISC (circumplex)
- RIASEC (circumplex)
- Cattell's 16 primary personality factors and 5 secondary factors
Gordon Allport's traits
Jungian derivatives
edit- Myers-Briggs Type theory (has a heavy "type" basis as well)
- Socionics
- Keirsey's personality types
Enneagram "derivatives"
edit- Spiral Dynamics ???
Cognitive deliniations
edit(may not be "personality theories" per se, but have many parallels. Probably falls under Wikipedia:NOR ["Original" synthesis])
- Guilford's "Structure of Intellect" model
Unsorted
edit- Occupational Personality Questionnaire (A derivative maybe?) - probably a "Position/Situational-based theory"
- PRISM (David Sharpley) - probably a "Position/Situational-based theory" - a derivative of various works as stated here: [3]
- Graphology
- Phrenology
- Anton Kepinsky's information metabolism theory
Still need to integrate Personality psychology#Cognitive theories, Personality psychology#Humanistic theories, and Personality psychology#Biopsychological theories, as well as everything I've forgotten or don't know about.