By the same test predispositions destructive of human personality exercise their most sinister impact, with the result that men of good will are often trapped and nullified.

In 1949 Bertram Forer conducted a personality test on students.

A 1982 meta-analysis drawn from over 200 studies concludes that graphologists were generally unable to predict any kind of personality trait on any personality test.

* F-scale ( personality test )

* Four Temperaments Test, personality test.

There is evidence that, at the age of 28, he was noticed by one of the British film studios, which decided to appraise his potential as a film personality by arranging a screen test.

Another personality test based upon the Five Factor Model is the Five Factor Personality Inventory – Children ( FFPI-C .).

The short, called " A Cinderella Named Elizabeth ," focuses on her status as an unknown actress from the middle America town of Youngstown, Ohio, and includes segments from her screen test and associated " personality test ", in which the actress is filmed while being herself and answering questions about everyday topics such as her taste in clothing.

The effect was that the test became difficult to satisfy, and the courts adopted the position that the scope of the plea was not to be further widened ( e. g. Carraher v HM Advocate ( 1946 ) JC 108 held that the plea was not available to a person suffering from psychopathic personality.

" Under the objective approach the defendant's personality ( i. e., his predisposition to commit the crime ) would be immaterial, and the potential for the police conduct to induce a law-abiding person considered in the abstract would be the test.

* Swedish Universities Scales of Personality, a personality test

The case focussed on a complaint by a woman who says that after being offered a free personality test, she was pressured into paying large sums of money.

Zimbardo and his team aimed to test the hypothesis that the inherent personality traits of prisoners and guards are the chief cause of abusive behavior in prison.

Symptoms may not appear for some decades after the initial infection and include: weakness, diminished reflexes, paresthesias ( shooting and burning pains, pricking sensations, and formication ), hypoesthesias ( abnormally diminished cutaneous, especially tactile, sensory modalities ), tabetic gait ( locomotor ataxia ), progressive degeneration of the joints, loss of coordination, episodes of intense pain and disturbed sensation ( including glossodynia ), personality changes, urinary incontinence, dementia, deafness, visual impairment, positive Romberg's test, and impaired response to light ( Argyll Robertson pupil ).

I might, for instance, review hospital records to find children who were abused, then track them down and administer a personality test to see if they show signs of being violent or shy.

# Xinli Ceyan ( 心理測驗 ) ( personality test )

* Proust Questionnaire, a personality test

Kelly saw that current theories of personality were so loosely defined and difficult to test that in many clinical cases the observer contributed more to the diagnosis than the patient.

Standardized effect size measures are typically used when the metrics of variables being studied do not have intrinsic meaning ( e. g., a score on a personality test on an arbitrary scale ), when results from multiple studies are being combined when some or all of the studies use different scales, or when it is desired to convey the size of an effect relative to the variability in the population.

The test is used by trained professionals to assist in identifying personality structure and psychopathology.

Among its many uses, it is perhaps best known as the personality test that is used in conjunction with Secret and Top Secret security clearances required for many positions within United States federal agencies that incur an extensive responsibility for life and property, such as the Department of Defense, Central Intelligence Agency, and the Federal Aviation Administration.

Since these early efforts of these test, a wide variety of personality tests have been developed, notably the Myers Briggs Type Indicator ( MBTI ), the MMPI, and a number of tests based on the Five Factor Model of personality.

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

Respect for personality is a privilege and a duty for us as brothers.

that their remote past is as discontinuous with their present selves, as lacking in any conscious likeness to their mature personality, as the self of a butterfly may be imagined discontinuous with that of the caterpillar it once was.

The ideal girl -- possessed of talent, poise, intelligence, personality and beauty of face and figure -- is chosen each year to represent Rhode Island.

We pointed out that emotional excitement may lead to psychosomatic disorders and neurotic symptoms, particularly in certain types of personality, but it is also known that the reliving of a strong emotion ( `` abreaction '' ) may cure a battle neurosis.

While this influence is a complex matter, depending upon personality factors in the individual as well as upon his social-class experience, there probably are some general statements about social-class background and educational policy that can be made with a fair degree of truth.

His personality appears more striking by contrast with Marina, who is -- perhaps purposely -- rather superficially characterized.

We have a brief glimpse of the Tsar's public personality, the `` official Boris '', but our real focus is on the excitement of the crowd -- a significant contrast with its halfhearted acclamation in the opening scene, its bitter resentment and fury in the final act.

In certain cases, as in Dick Stewart's, a child's personality is affected.

Maestro's biggest stock in trade is his personality, and ability to establish a warm rapport with his audience.

Modern psychology has shown that paralleling `` the authoritarian personality '' is `` the bigoted personality '' in which insecurity, inferiority, suspicion, and distrust combine to provide a target for antagonism so indispensable that it will be manufactured if it does not exist naturally.

While the personality factors that aggravate interfaith conflict may be perennial, nationalism is more variable.

A year and a day of this idyll is described for the reader, one in which not only discovery of a new world of personality is charted, but self-discovery as well.

One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.

It is unclear if costly signaling can indicate a long-term cooperative personality but people have increased trust for those who help.

Another effect is that people would like altruism to be due to a personality characteristic rather than due to overt reputational concerns and simply pointing out that there are reputational benefits of an action may actually reduce them.

Little is known of the personality of Agnes, beyond the remarkable influence which she seems to have exercised over Philip II.

" Johnson is a particular favorite for the bottom of the pile because of his impeachment, despite his acquittal, and also due to his mishandling of Reconstruction policy, his inept dealings with his Cabinet and Congress, his bristling personality and his sense of self-importance.

The questionnaire included views of one's individual personality, that of the own nation and that of other nations.

In a 1987 study, graphologists were unable to predict scores on the Eysenck personality questionnaire using writing samples from the same people.

Ekselius and von Knorring studied 145 depressed patients, 61 % of whom scored in the personality disorder range by self-report questionnaire, who received sertraline or citalopram for 24 weeks.

The experiment found that during the questionnaire round, participants were more likely to assign positive personality traits to those in the pictures that were preceded by the positive subliminal images and negative personality traits to those in the pictures that were preceded by the negative subliminal images.

* The Newcastle Personality Assessor ( NPA ), created by Daniel Nettle, is a short questionnaire designed to quantify personality on five dimensions: Extraversion, Neuroticism, Conscientious, Agreeableness, and Openness.

* Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality ( SNAP ), a questionnaire for personality disorder assessment

The Keirsey Temperament Sorter ( KTS ) is a self-assessed personality questionnaire designed to help people better understand themselves and others.

The questionnaire concept was originated by French television personality Bernard Pivot on his show Apostrophes, after the Proust Questionnaire.

These researchers began by studying known personality traits and then factor-analyzing hundreds of measures of these traits ( in self-report and questionnaire data, peer ratings, and objective measures from experimental settings ) in order to find the underlying factors of personality.

In his most popular publications, Please Understand Me ( 1978, co-authored by Marilyn Bates ) and the revised and expanded second volume Please Understand Me II ( 1998 ), he laid out a self-assessed personality questionnaire, known as the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, which links human behaviorial patterns to four temperaments and sixteen character types.

Both volumes of Please Understand Me contain the questionnaire for type evaluation with detailed portraits and a systematic treatment of descriptions of temperament traits and personality characteristics.

The questionnaire is meant to help people realize their " best fit type ", the personality type that will help them succeed most in life.