Auke Tellegen

Auke Tellegen was a professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota from 1968 to 1999. He worked on assessment, developing the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire and contributed to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.[1]

He received his PhD in personality psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1962 and did post-doctoral study in clinical psychology at the University of Minnesota Medical School.[2]

Research

Tellegen, alongside David Lykken, studied the effects that genetics had on a person's happiness.

Absorption

Tellegen proposed the personality trait of Absorption. In 1974 he developed the Tellegen Absorption Scale (TAS) with Gilbert Atkinson, which he revised in 1982 and 1992.[3]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ http://www.upress.umn.edu/test-division/mtdda/dr.-auke-tellegen
  2. 1 2 "2012 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Assessment Psychology".
  3. ↑ Kerr, Barbara (2009). Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent 1. Sage Publications. pp. 1–3.
  4. ↑ Hughes, Amanda. "The Bruno Klopfer, Walter G. Klopfer, and Martin Mayman Awards." Journal of Personality Assessment 93.3 (2011).
  5. ↑ "The Jack Block Award". American Psychological Association.


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