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Free Online Personality Psychology Textbooks

Personality Psychology studies how our personal traits – our thoughts, feelings and beliefs, can impact our behavior. This discipline studies such concepts as free will, nature vs nurture, uniqueness vs universality, active vs reactive and optimism vs pessimism.

As you could imagine, there are numerous texts that cover each of the core concepts of this discipline and theories can vary greatly. As the world we live in continues to change, so do our core beliefs. Proponents of the different psychological schools disagree as to the role of the unconscious and the impact of childhood experiences. Freudians consider personality to be based upon the interactions of the id, ego and super-ego. Trait theorists, on the other hand believe personality is based on a discrete number of key traits.

We have found a number of free, online personality psychology references for you to use in your study of this subject.

As always, if you know of any others, please let us know.

List of Free Online Personality Psychology Textbooks

An Introduction to Psychometric Theory with Applications in R

This site offers access to a yet-to-be-published book as the author refines it for release. It covers that aspect of personality psychology called psychometrics, which studies how to measure what we talk and think about. It also offers several articles and links to information about using the R software platform.

Conversations with Neil’s Brain: The Neural Nature of Thought & Langauge

Written by two neurophysiologists from the University of Washington, this online text presents the basics of neuroscience through conversations held between a surgeon and his patient.

Freud and His Critics

Written by: Paul Robinson (University of California)

Paul Robinson, University of California Press, 1993. Robinson examines the writings of three of Freud’s critics and discusses Freud’s place in Intellectual history.

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Personality Theories

Written by: Dr. Boeree (Shippensburg University)

Personality Theories online e-text from Dr. Boeree, Psychology Department, Shippensburg University. Text is available in English, Spanish and German.

Personality: Theory & Perspectives

Course materials from an undergraduate psychology course that focuses on our individual differences.