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The big 5 was initially developed via the lexical hypothesis. All the words which described human personality in the English language were compiled. Words which had a purely value oriented meaning (e.g. angel, jackass, scoundrel, hero) were excluded. This resu...

The inception of the big five theory relied upon the assumption that language was a good tool for investigating the underlying traits in human personality. The next stage built upon the lexical hypothesis and instead used self-assessment tests to see if the or...

This article will compare and contrast the items from the 16p test with the items from the NEO and BFAS tests. There is no resource available for the allocation of the test items so guesswork combined with the 16p descriptions of each trait will be used to map...

Unlike some personality systems where someone originates the theory and every subsequent writer has to build on that theory, and attempts to totally re-engineer fundamental claims are viewed negatively (e.g. Carl Jung's work being the basis of MBTI theory) the...