Works
- Language and Individual Differences: The Search for Universals in Personality Lexicons, Review of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 2, ed. L. Wheeler, 1981
- An Alternative "Description of Personality": The Big-Five Factor Structure, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 59(6), 1990
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Known for
A personality psychologist at the University of Oregon and the Oregon Research Institute, associated with the lexical hypothesis that important personality traits are encoded in everyday language. He coined the term Big Five and showed the five factors recurring across large sets of trait words.