Social Psychology Network

Social Psychology Network also maintains a bibliography of Personality Psychology Textbooks.

Table of Contents (click on a category of interest)

Personality Theory and Research:    General Resources    Open Access Introductions and Reviews    SPSP Videos on Personality Psychology    TED Talks and Other Videos on Personality    Free Online Courses Related to Personality Professional Organizations Research Journals Personality Assessment:    Personality Measurement and Testing    Online Personality Tests Intelligence:    Intelligence Testing    The Bell Curve Controversy    Emotional Intelligence Historical Figures:    Sigmund Freud    Alfred Adler    Carl Gustav Jung    Other Theorists

• The Personality Project (links related to personality theory and research)
• Research on Personality Traits (Association for Psychological Science)
• Personality (resources from the American Psychological Association)
• Personality Types and Personality Traits (from HelpGuide.org)
• Personality Pedagogy (a compendium of teaching resources)

• Introduction to Personality (OpenOregon Educational Resources)
• Personality (personality chapter from free OpenStax e-textbook)
• Personality Psychology (literature review from Annual Review of Psychology)
• Personality Theories (a free electronic textbook)
• Personality Psychology (extensive Wikipedia overview)

• Introduction to Personality Psychology (5 minutes)
• Personality Across Cultures (8 minutes)
• Personality and Health (7 minutes)
• Personality Research Methods (9 minutes)
• Personality Assessment and Judgment (7 minutes)
• Personality of Place (7 minutes)

• Who Are You, Really? The Puzzle of Personality (15 minutes, TED)
• Measuring Personality (11 minutes, Crash Course Psychology)
• Do Gut Microbes Control Your Personality? (10 minutes, TED)
• The Big Five Personality Traits (6 minutes, Practical Psychology)
• The Power of Introverts (19 minutes, TED)
• The Psychology of Narcissism (5 minutes, TED)
• Controversy of Intelligence (13 minutes, Crash Course Psychology)

• Introduction to Psychology of Personality (edX)
• Leading with Power Skills: Working With Personality Types (Coursera)
• Let's Get Personal: Working With Personality Type (edX)
• Personality in Action: Science to Shape Your Life (Coursera)
• Personality Types at Work (Coursera)
• Psychology: Personality (edX)
• The Psychology of Thrill Seekers (Coursera)

• Association for Psychological Type International
• Association for Research in Personality
• Australasian Congress for Personality and Individual Differences
• Behavior Genetics Association
• British Society of the Psychology of Individual Differences
• European Association of Personality Psychology
• Institute for Behavioral Genetics
• International Society for the Study of Individual Differences
• Social and Personality Section (Canadian Psychological Association)
• Society for Personality and Social Psychology (Division 8 of the APA)
• Society for Personality Assessment
• World Association for Personality Psychology

• European Journal of Personality (EAPP journal)
• International Journal of Personality Psychology (WAPP journal)
• Journal of Individual Differences
• Journal of Personality
• Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (APA journal)
• Journal of Personality Assessment (SPA journal)
• Journal of Research in Personality (ARP journal)
• Learning and Individual Differences
• Personality and Individual Differences (ISSID journal)
• Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (SPSP journal)
• Personality and Social Psychology Review (SPSP journal)
• Personality and Social Psychology Science (SPSP journal)
• Psychological Assessment (APA journal)

• Finding Information About Psychological Tests (American Psychological Association)
• ETS Test Collection (world's largest repository of standardized tests)
• Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (widely used measure)
• Personality: Character and Temperament (Keirsey.com)
• Buros Center for Testing (independent nonprofit organization)
• Myers & Briggs Foundation (promoting the understanding of psychological type)
• Psychometrics Canada (provides assessment tools and consulting)

• Personality Tests (extensive directory of tests from Psychology Today)
• PersonalityAssessor.com (free online tests with immediate feedback)
• Open-Source Psychometrics Project (mix of educational and entertaining tests)
• QueenDom’s Test Collection (scientifically validated tests and quizzes)
• AllTheTests.com (searchable database and directory)
• Free Personality Tests and Career Assessments (from Truity)

• Assessment of Human Intelligence—The State of the Art (Journal of Intelligence)
• International Society for Intelligence Research (scientific society)
• Intelligence (resources from the American Psychological Association)
• Intelligence (resources from the Association for Psychological Science)
• Online IQ Test (free from IQTest.com; fee for "Complete Intelligence Profile")
• Mensa International (global society for people with high IQ scores)

• The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in America (controversial bestseller)
• The Bell Curve Controversy (brief overview of the debate from Explorable.com)
• Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count (an answer to The Bell Curve)
• "The Bell Curve" in Perspective: Race, Meritocracy, Inequality and Politics (open access)

• Emotional Intelligence (extensive Wikipedia history and overview)
• The Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Network (operates in more than 150 countries)
• Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations (founded in 1996)
• Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (30-45 minutes; scientifically validated)
• Test Your Emotional IQ (light-hearted 5-minute online test from Psychology Today)
• How to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence (Harvard Continuing Education)

• Freud Museum (London, England)
• Sigmund Freud Museum (Vienna, Austria)
• Sigmund Freud (Wikipedia biography)
• Sigmund Freud Chronology: 1856-1939 (U.S. Library of Congress)
• 10 Things You May Not Know About Sigmund Freud (History.com)

• Alfred Adler (founder of Adlerian psychology)
• Adler University (offers MA and PhD psychology degrees)
• Adler Graduate School (offers MA counseling and therapy degrees)
• North American Society of Adlerian Psychology (established in 1952)
• Adlerian Society UK Institute for Individual Psychology (professional society)

• Carl Jung (Wikipedia biography)
• The C.G. Jung Page (resources for Jungians around the world)
• 12 Jungian Archetypes (from PositivePsychology.com)
• International Association for Analytical Psychology (promoting the work of C. G. Jung)
• "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves" (video)

• Mary Ainsworth (personality psychologist who studied childhood attachment styles)
• Mary Whiton Calkins (developed self-psychology; became first female APA President)
• Raymond Cattell (conducted psychometric studies on personality and temperament)
• Leta Stetter Hollingworth (did pioneering studies on gifted and talented children)
• Karen Horney (personality theorist and founder of feminist psychology)
• George Kelly (developed Personal Construct Psychology)
• Isabel Briggs Myers and Katharine Cook Briggs (created Myers–Briggs Type Indicator)
• Carl Rogers (developed humanistic theory of personality)