Pettit, MichaelDavidson, Ian James2020-11-132020-11-132020-082020-11-13http://hdl.handle.net/10315/37940This dissertation documents personality psychologys development alongside psychoanalysis and eugenics, offering a disciplinary and cultural history of personality across the twentieth century. Using the psychological concepts of neurosis and introversion as an organizational framework, personalitys history is portrayed as one of success: a succession of hereditarianism and its politics of normativity; a successful demarcation of the science of personality from competing forms of expertise; and a successful cleansing of personality psychologys interchanges with unethical researchers and research. Chapter 1 provides background for the dissertation, especially focusing on turn-of-the-century developments in the nascent fields of American psychology and the importation of psychoanalytic ideas. It ends with a look at Francis Galtons eugenicist and statistical contributions that carved a key path for psychological testers to discipline psychoanalytic concepts. Part I details the rise of personality testing in the USA during the interwar years, while also considering the many sexual and gender norms at play. Chapter 2 tracks the varied places in the 1920s that personality tests were developed: from wartime military camps to university laboratories to the offices of corporate advertisers. Chapter 3 takes stock of popular psychoanalytic notions of personality alongside the further psychometric development of personality testing. These developments occurred at a time when American eugenicistsincluding psychologistswere transitioning to a positive form that emphasized marriage and mothering. Part II partially strays from a strict chronicling of the Big Twos development into traitsneuroticism and extraversionto consider the broader histories of personality in the Cold War era and beyond. Chapter 4 considers the opposing legacies of Hans Eysenck and Paul Meehl to explore the development of psychometric tools that countered popular projective techniques. Additionally, it examines the multifarious connections between psychoanalysis and psychologists striving for a science of personality. Chapter 5 closes the dissertation with a look at the psychometric work that led to the Five-Factor Models ascent in the 1990s as perhaps the most widely accepted perspective on personality. Along the way, the conservative politics of heredity and eugenics would capitalize on cries for the academic freedom of racist science while justifying trait psychologys past.Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.American studiesElectronic Thesis or Dissertation2020-11-13PersonalityPersonality psychologyPersonality traitsPsychometricsBig FiveFive-factor modelNeurosisNeuroticismIntroversionExtraversionIntrovertsExtrovertsExtravertsPsychoanalysisSigmund FreudCarl JungG. Stanley HallFunctionalismAssociation testsProjective testingFrancis GaltonStatisticsEugenicsHeredityHereditarianismNature-nurtureIntelligence testingBeatrice HinkleAbnormalNormativityNormalizationPersonality taxonomyPersonality testingSex differencesEmotional stabilityEmployee adjustmentRobert WoodworthWoodworth Personal Data SheetWWIShell shockAdvertisingMarketingPersonality typesAmbivertAmbiversionEdmund ConklinVocational testingSex rolesKaren HorneyNeo-FreudiansCultural determinantsPersonality and cultureMotherhoodFirst-wave feminismMarriagePositive eugenicsSterilizationCaliforniaWestern settlersGender normsSexual inversionHawaiiBernreuter Personality InventoryLewis TermanStanley PorteusPioneer FundMasculinityFemininityPsychology of genderAndrocentrismHeteronormativityMinnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)WhitenessPaul MeehlDeceptionLie scalesSocial desirabilitySelf-deceptionKarl PopperDemarcationBoundary workPsychological expertiseHistory of professionsMarxismHans EysenckBiological psychologyBell CurvePerson-situation controversyTrait consistencyTrait stabilityWalter MischelBehavior geneticsReform eugenicsSocialismEgalitarianismMankind QuarterlyRaymond CattellBeyondismTobacco industryBig TobaccoTobacco fundingGeneticsEvolutionary psychologySociobiologyAcademic freedomRace and IQJ. Philippe RushtonCanadian psychologyPolitical psychologyCold WarCold War psychologyCold War politicsCommunismLibertarianAuthoritarianismCampus protestsCampus activismDiversitySocial conservatismWestern liberalism