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This page chronicles major additions to the Great Ideas in Personality website. Disregarded are minor additions, such as single links and single references. See also the Personality Tests and the Statistics on visits to pages in this website.
 

October, 15 2005

Eight new Personality Papers have been added. Topics range from social causes of depression to deaf potential to behavior genetics.

October 1, 2005

Visits to the Great Ideas in Personality Home Page since August 1997 just topped 1,000,000. Thanks to everyone who has stopped by.

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April, 25 2005

Visits to the Great Ideas in Personality Home Page since August 1997 just topped 900,000.

April 20, 2005

Congratulations to Caitlin M. Jones, whose paper, "Genetic and Environmental Influences on Criminal Behavior," won the 2005 RIT Kearse Award for Writing!

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March 13, 2005

The 2003 circulation rates of Personality Journals should provide information on how widely read each journal is.

March 11, 2005

Seven new Personality Papers with peer commentaries and author responses have been added.

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February 6, 2005

The 2003 average citation rates of Personality Journals should provide information on how influential each journal is. In addition, many clinical psychology and psychiatry journals have been added.

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December 6, 2004

Author responses to the 13 peer commentaries on the four new Personality Papers have been added.

December 1, 2004

Visits to the Great Ideas in Personality Home Page since August 1997 just topped 800,000.

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November 19, 2004

The Google Scholar search engine has been added to the Great Ideas in Personality Home Page to permit searching scholarly publications rank-ordered by number of citations in the scholarly literature and other indexes of importance.

November 28, 2004

A Rubric for Evaluating Papers has been added to the Writing section to clarify the characteristics that distinguish exemplarly papers and peer commentaries.

November 19, 2004

Peer commentaries on the Personality Papers have been added.

November 4, 2004

Four new Personality Papers have been added.

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September 24, 2004

A major new section has been added on the Generalized Interpersonal Theory.

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June 28, 2004

Visits to the Great Ideas in Personality Home Page since August 1997 just topped 700,000.

June 26, 2004

Author responses to the 10 peer commentaries on the four latest Personality Papers have been added.

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May 9, 2004

Four new Personality Papers have been added.

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February 4, 2004

Links to Ph.D. programs in personality have been added to the U.S. Psychology Departments.

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January 25, 2004

Visits to the Great Ideas in Personality Home Page since August 1997 just topped 600,000.

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November 22, 2003

Eleven new Personality Papers with peer commentaries have been added on topics ranging from depression, to attachment theory, to psychoticism and creativity.

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July 29, 2003

Rankings of U.S. Psychology Departments and U.K. Psychology Departments have been added.

July 28, 2003

A new section links to free on-line Personality Tests, most of which are standard personality tests administered by professionals.

July 18, 2003

A link to a Personality Message Board has been added on a trial basis. It is anticipated that eventually this remote message board will be replaced with a new one integrated into the website itself.

July 13, 2003

The Statistics have been updated to reflect activity from July 2002 to July 2003. During this time, the Great Ideas in Personality Home Page received 372,400 visits, for a total of 516,400 since August 1997.

July 8, 2003

The 2002 circulation rates of Personality Journals should provide information on how widely read each journal is.

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June 18, 2003

The 2002 average citation rates of Personality Journals should provide information on how influential each journal is.

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May 26, 2003

Visits to the Great Ideas in Personality Home Page since August 1997 just topped 500,000.

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April 18, 2003

A new syllabus for the course Psychological Testing I has been added.

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March 8, 2003

New syllabi for the courses Psychology of Personality, Abnormal Psychology, and Research in Clinical Psychology have been added.

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February 21, 2003

Further resources on obtaining Grants have been added.

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November 18, 2002

Visits to the Great Ideas in Personality Home Page since August 1997 just topped 400,000.

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September 29, 2002

The Personality Researchers page has been expanded to include motivation as an area of research interest. If you are a personality researcher and would like me to revise your research interests, please contact me! Please note that, in order to be included, personality researchers must have a personal home page devoted exclusively to them.

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August 14, 2002

A new course, the Writers' Task Force, has been added.

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July 19, 2002

The Statistics have been updated to reflect activity from July 2001 to July 2002. During this time, the Great Ideas in Personality Home Page received 144,000 visits, for a total of 322,000 since August 1997.

July 14, 2002

The 2001 rankings of Personality Journals have been added.

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June 1, 2002

A new section on Personality Email Lists has been added. This section is incomplete, and suggestions are welcome.

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May 25, 2002

Visits to the Great Ideas in Personality Home Page since August 1997 just topped 300,000.

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April 26, 2002

A preliminary version of a Substance Use & Misuse article titled "Measurement of Impulsivity in a Hierarchical Model of Personality Traits: Implications for Substance Use," by G. Scott Acton, has been added.

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March 24, 2002

A preliminary version of a Journal of Personality Assessment article titled "Interpersonal Personality Measures Show Circumplex Structure Based on New Psychometric Criteria," by G. Scott Acton and William Revelle, has been added.

March 20, 2002

Some new terms have been added to the Personality Glossary.

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November 4, 2001

The 2000 rankings of Personality Journals have been added.

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October 27, 2001

A new section on Addiction Journals has been added.

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September 29, 2001

A new paper has been added: "What Is Good About Rasch Measurement?"

September 28, 2001

Sections on Measurement and Statistics have been added to the Readings page.

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July 29, 2001

At the bottom of nearly every page now appear (a) the date last modified, (b) a counter started in July 2001, (c) a request for comments, and (d) one or more links home to the context (including the Great Ideas in Personality Home Page).

July 27, 2001

The Statistics have been updated to reflect activity from July 2000 to July 2001. During this time, the Great Ideas in Personality Home Page received 117,000 visits, for a total of 177,000 since August 1997.

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May 23, 2001

Advice on Writing Articles has been added, as has a new Peer Review Form.

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April 25, 2001

Visits to the Great Ideas in Personality Home Page just topped 150,000.

April 18, 2001

The Gallery, which includes pictures of ten personality researchers, has been moved to a page separate from the Personality Researchers in order to allow the latter page to load faster.

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March 28, 2001

The site usage Statistics for major pages have been updated for the 8 months between July 2000 and March 2001.

March 25, 2001

The links from one major node to another have been changed slightly to expand the circle of linked nodes. For example, the Personality Glossary and Personality Societies are now included.

March 6, 2001

The PubMed database of journal abstracts from the National Institutes of Health has been added to the Great Ideas in Personality Home Page.

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February 19, 2001

The Sociobiology page has been renamed Evolutionary Psychology.

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December 9, 2000

The Great Ideas in Personality Home Page now uses the Google search engine.

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October 30, 2000

The 1999 rankings of Personality Journals have been added.

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September 20, 2000

A new society, the Association for Research in Personality, is having its inaugural conference starting January 31, 2001.

September 12, 2000

The research interests of Personality Researchers have been added.

September 5, 2000

Advice on obtaining Research Grants has been added.

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July 4, 2000

The address for Great Ideas in Personality has just changed to http://www.personalityresearch.org/. Since August 1997, visits to the former address (http://galton.psych.northwestern.edu/greatideas.html) reached nearly 60,000.

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June 30, 2000

Counters have been added to tally hits to each main page.

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May 17, 2000

Links related to Research Grants are now available.

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Visits to the Great Ideas in Personality Home Page since August 1997 just topped 30,000.

August 25, 1999

The interpersonal theory references just reached 200.

August 13, 1999

The same search facility can now search either this website or the web, depending on the radio button chosen.

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The Great Ideas in Personality Home Page now includes a search engine that searches this website. The graphics have also been removed. It is hoped that these revisions will make the home page more functional for those who wish to use it as their portal to the web.

July 21, 1999

In "Sensory Discrimination as Related to General Intelligence," a preliminary version of an Intelligence article, G. Scott Acton and David H. Schroeder investigate the extent to which color discrimination and pitch discrimination are correlated with general intelligence.

July 17, 1999

A new guide to APA Style has been added.

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The Great Ideas in Personality Home Page now includes graphics. If you see a change in this website that you like or dislike in either design or content, please send me your comments--I'd love to hear from you.

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Each major node is now equipped with a bigger title.

The cumulative Statistics on visits to this website have been updated for the period from January 26, 1999 to February 5, 1999. Featured in this page are Links ranked ordered by popularity.

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Persons interested in joining a professional society can now find a list of Personality Societies.

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A new survey course, Personality Psychology, represents yet another way of teaching this interesting subject.

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Now every major node in this website includes a table of contents and suggested links that allow parallel movement in a circle.

A significant addition to the Journals section is the average number of times articles in each journal were cited in 1998.

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A new section of frequently asked questions (FAQ) has been added.

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The Great Ideas in Personality Home Page has been changed so that most links are visible without scrolling down the page.

The new professional section includes information on Journals, Speaking, and Writing.

Students taking my Psychopathology course can now find out What to Expect from a course taught using the methods I have elected to use.

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An assortment of questions that personality students have asked or might ask (entitled Self-Quiz) has been moved to a page all its own.

The cumulative Statistics on visits to this website have been updated for the period from June 23, 1998 to September 23, 1998. Featured in this page are Links ranked ordered by popularity.

Now you can read these pages in Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, or Português.

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KwangMin Jang has written a paper entitled, "The PEN Model: Its Contribution to Personality Psychology." The author response to the peer commentaries on this paper is entitled, "Who Is Right, Eysenck or Gray?"

Han S. Paik's paper, entitled, "One Intelligence or Many?--Alternative Approaches to Cognitive Abilities," is now available. The author response to the peer commentaries on this paper is entitled, "Additional Theories of Multiple Intelligences: A Barrage of Opinions."

A veritable cornucopia of (annotated) Personality Links on research programs covered in this website has been added.

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This website now includes a virtually complete list of over 250 references on interpersonal theory. See everything except complementarity and everything on complementarity.

Submission Guidelines are available for submission of Papers to the Great Ideas in Personality website, which is widely read by persons interested in the science of personality. If you would like to share your ideas about personality with this audience, please consider submitting your work for publication here.

See the fledgling Glossary of personality terms.

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Notes for the course Introduction to Personality are being added gradually.

The cumulative Statistics for the server containing Great Ideas in Personality can now be viewed.

The Intelligence section, like other sections, now comprises an interactive taxonomy of major ideas in the field.

An annotated selection of Personality Courses has been added.

The Gallery of Great Idea Investigators just got bigger; it now includes links to over 60 home pages of personality investigators.

Find out Eysenck's views on how the PEN model and the five-factor model are related.

The Gallery of Great Idea Investigators has been moved to a page all its own. This will allow the Great Ideas in Personality Home Page to load faster for those using modems.

The Great Ideas in Personality Home Page has taken on a new and (it is hoped) improved look.

The darker side of personality is revealed in Personality Disorders.

Read about the dagger in the heart of Eysenck's arousal theory.

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Contributors to this website should strictly adhere to Eysenck's Rules of Argument.

Alissa D. Eischens has contributed two papers to this website. The second is entitled, "The Dilemma of the Only Child." Her response to the peer commentaries on this paper is called, "Merely Scratching the Surface of the Birth Order Dilemma."

Maren Cardillo has contributed a paper entitled, "Intimate Relationships: Personality Development Through Interaction During Early Life." Her response to the peer commentaries on this paper is called, "A Proposed Theory of Personality: Stressing the Fundamental Elements."

In memory of John M. Digman: 1923-1998.

Nathan C. Popkins has contributed two papers to this website. The first is entitled, "The Five-Factor Model: Emergence of a Taxonomic Model for Personality Psychology." Popkins' response to the peer commentaries on this paper is called, "Semantic and Theoretical Clarifications."

Popkins' second paper is entitled, "Natural Characteristics That Influence Environment: How Physical Appearance Affects Personality." His response to the peer commentaries on this paper is called, "Experiments and the Question of the Chicken or the Egg."

A page has been added on the effects of Sensitive Responding of parents in the development of children's attachment styles.

If you are interested in the relative effects of genes and environment, then see the section on Behavior Genetics.

Aggression is an important phenomenon that has been studied extensively by sociobiologists. Interestingly enough, it has also been studied extensively by cognitive social learning theorists, who certainly take a different slant on things.

The What's New section was added to chronicle major additions to this website.

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Great Ideas in Personality began as a list of references on personality research programs; then separate pages were added on each research program, often taking the form of Alternative Representations; later, annotated links to other relevant websites were added. Although it began as a resource for students taking a course, this website now includes materials that should interest students, professsionals, and laypersons alike in the science of personality.

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Last modified October 2005
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