Works
- Recurrent Personality Factors Based on Trait Ratings, 1961
In Thinking Tools
Known for
A U.S. Air Force personnel researcher at Lackland Air Force Base who, with Raymond E. Christal, found five recurring factors in peer ratings of officers: surgency, agreeableness, dependability, emotional stability, and culture. The technical report, reprinted in the Journal of Personality in 1992, is an early statement of what became the Big Five.