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The Personality Profile Of China’S Empress Wu Zetian, Ruoyue Wang, Yunyiye Chen, Aubrey Immelman
The Personality Profile Of China’S Empress Wu Zetian, Ruoyue Wang, Yunyiye Chen, Aubrey Immelman
Psychology Faculty Publications
This paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of Empress Wu Zetian, de facto ruler of China from 665 to 705, from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon.
Psychodiagnostically relevant data about Empress Wu were collected from biographical sources and media reports and synthesized into a personality profile using the Millon Inventory of Diagnostic Criteria (MIDC), which yields 34 normal and maladaptive personality classifications congruent with DSM-III-R, DSM-IV, and DSM-5.
The personality profile yielded by the MIDC was analyzed in accordance with interpretive guidelines provided in the MIDC and Millon Index of …
The Political Personality Of U.S. President Barack Obama, Aubrey Immelman
The Political Personality Of U.S. President Barack Obama, Aubrey Immelman
Psychology Faculty Publications
This paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of U.S. president Barack Obama, from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon.
Information concerning Obama was collected from biographical sources and media reports and synthesized into a personality profile using the Millon Inventory of Diagnostic Criteria (MIDC), which yields 34 normal and maladaptive personality classifications congruent with Axis II of DSM–IV.
The personality profile yielded by the MIDC was analyzed on the basis of interpretive guidelines provided in the MIDC and Millon Index of Personality Styles manuals. Obama’s primary personality patterns were found to be Ambitious/confident …
The Political Personality Of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, Aubrey Immelman, Adam Beatty
The Political Personality Of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, Aubrey Immelman, Adam Beatty
Psychology Faculty Publications
This paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, from the conceptual perspective of Theodore Millon.
Psychodiagnostically relevant information regarding President Mugabe was extracted from biographical sources and media reports and synthesized into a personality profile using the second edition of the Millon Inventory of Diagnostic Criteria (MIDC), which yields 34 normal and maladaptive personality classifications congruent with Axis II of DSM–IV.
The personality profile yielded by the MIDC was analyzed on the basis of interpretive guidelines provided in the MIDC and Millon Index of Personality Styles manuals.
Mugabe’s primary personality …
Portrait Of George W. Bush As A “Late Bloomer”, Aubrey Immelman
Portrait Of George W. Bush As A “Late Bloomer”, Aubrey Immelman
Psychology Faculty Publications
This essay documents some of the enduring personal characteristics that provide an empirical basis for assessing George W. Bush’s outgoing, adventurous personality pattern.
The Character Of Hillary Clinton, Aubrey Immelman
The Character Of Hillary Clinton, Aubrey Immelman
Psychology Faculty Publications
This essay documents some of the enduring personal characteristics that provide an empirical basis for assessing Hillary Rodham Clinton’s dominant, ambitious personality pattern from a psychobiographical, psychohistorical perspective.
Why Al Gore Will Not Be Elected President In 2000, Aubrey Immelman
Why Al Gore Will Not Be Elected President In 2000, Aubrey Immelman
Psychology Faculty Publications
This article highlights the key role of extraversion with reference to electoral success in U.S. presidential elections since the advent of television and argues that the introverted Al Gore will therefore not be elected president in 2000. Starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt, nearly every U.S. president has been extraverted relative to other U.S. presidents, except for Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter. Moreover, since the first televised presidential debate (between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon) in 1960, the more outgoing candidate has consistently won the election, with the exception of Nixon in 1968 and 1972.
The Clinton Chronicle: Diary Of A Political Psychologist, Aubrey Immelman
The Clinton Chronicle: Diary Of A Political Psychologist, Aubrey Immelman
Psychology Faculty Publications
Chronicle, from the perspective of political psychology, of events and controversies in the impeachment saga of President Bill Clinton, from the president’s August 17, 1998 testimony before the grand jury in the Starr investigation to his acquittal on February 12, 1999.
“All The Men’S President” — The Political Personality Of Bill Clinton, Aubrey Immelman
“All The Men’S President” — The Political Personality Of Bill Clinton, Aubrey Immelman
Psychology Faculty Publications
This article reports the results of an exploratory political personality assessment of U.S. president Bill Clinton, derived from psychodiagnostic meta-analysis of biographical information in the public domain, and designed to place personological knowledge from diverse sources and divergent perspectives into a coherent psychodiagnostic framework.