| Self-Determination Theory - Research-based theory of human motivation and personality in social contexts. Includes researcher profiles, reference lists, selected articles for download in PDF, and research questionnaires and scoring instructions.
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| Personality and Consciousness - Personality theories, processes and disorders. Maslow, Freud, Jung, Adler, Rogers, Skinner. Quotations, descriptions of work, links.
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| International Personality Item Pool - a collaborative effort of personality researchers to develop advanced measures of individual differences.
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| Personality Theories - E-text designed for courses in personality theories, addressing psychoanalytic, behavioristic, and humanistic schools of thought, by Dr. C. George Boeree, Psychology Department, Shippensburg University.
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| Perspectives - Existential theory of personality, including an outline of seven common personal perspectives on the world and a number of phenomenological sketches.
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| Theories of Personality - Outlines for quick reference on the theories of Adler, Erikson, Existential, Freud, Jung, Maslow, Rank, Rogers.
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| Revelle.net - Prof Revelle's (Northwestern University) site covers personal and individual differences research.
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| Personality theory on Horney's Role of Narcissism - Novel approach to personality testing by A.M. Benis, M.D., based on the "genetic" traits of narcissism, perfectionism and aggression.
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| Great Ideas in Personality - This website deals with scientific research programs on the psychology of personality.
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| Ptypes - A new, comprehensive, and systematic classification of 16 personality types. Criteria and links to pages about persons within each personality group. Comparison between Ptypes personality types, Keirsey's Myers-Briggs, Riso's enneagram, Oldham's personality style, and Brau's astrological signs.
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| The Habit of Identity - Short essay exploring whether our identity is nothing more than the sum of our habits.
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| Dr. Joseph M. Pirone - Professor of Psychology at SUNY Rockland specializing in Personality.
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| The Personality Project - A guide for those interested in personality theory and research, including readings, abstracts, and links, maintained by Bill Revelle at NWU.
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| Temperament.com - Temperamental individuality in infants, children and adults. Research and practical information about temperamental characteristics in research and practice.
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| Psychobiography - A scholarly resource for psychobiography. Contents include an annotated bibliography of psychobiographical research, articles, and links.
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| St. Mary's University Blume Library: Personality Tests and Resources - A gateway of psychology links to Myers-Briggs-related tests, online tests, and other information on personality research.
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| Walter Mischel - Inconsistencies in Personality - An article arguing that people's personalities are not as stable as many believe.
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| Laboratory of Personality and Cognition - The National Institute on Aging (NIA) Laboratory of Personality and Cognition, headed by Paul T. Costa.
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| Riverside Accuracy Project - The Riverside Accuracy Project investigates the determinants of accurate personality judgments of others.
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| The Peer Nomination Project - Explores the discrepancies between self-report and informant measures in the assessment of personality and personality disorders.
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| Personality Theories: Experimental, Clinical, and Correlational - This ongoing project at Francis Marion University includes concise introductions to the major theories of personality psychology.
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| A Science Odyssey: That's My Theory! - In this gameshow by the Public Broadcasting System, readers try to guess the identities of three major personality theorists.
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| Vulnerability and Resilience - A chapter by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) on Vulnerability and Resilience, including general personality psychology, attachment, self concepts and self esteem.
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| Personal Construct Psychology - Description of a constructivist system of psychology developed by George Kelly.
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| Risktaking.co.uk - An introduction to the psychology of risk-taking behavior, focusing upon the personality profiles associated with high-risk sports and health-risk behaviors.
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| Clear Direction - Provides personal and professional profiles based on the theories of Axiology.
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| Gregorc Associates - Training, consulting and publishing firm directed by Dr. Anthony F. Gregorc, the creator of the Mind Styles Model; originator of the four style types: Concrete Sequential (CS), Abstract Sequential (AS), Abstract Random (AR) and Concrete Random (CR); and the developer of the Gregorc Style Delineator.
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| World Database of Happiness - A continuous register of scientific research on subjective appreciation of life directed by Ruut Veenhoven, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Features overview, bibliography and contact details for the project participants.
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| Alphabet Soup Personality Types - An overview of psycholgical type.
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| The Dimensions of Human Space - Theoretical paper on personality type, organizational form, and the structure of human consciousness.
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| What's in a Face - Psychology study exploring the relationships between personality, facial expressions and lasting facial features.
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