Some theories are still being tested, while others have fallen out of favor. Some compete while others complement one another. A look at some major ideas in personality psychology, both historical ...

personality scientists say that thinking in terms of distinct types is an oversimplified approach to personality. Type A personality (or Type A Behavior) was originally described not by ...

One of their contemporaries, Alfred Adler, a pioneering Austrian physician and psychiatrist, also made groundbreaking ...