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Hans Eysenck
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British psychologist (1916–1997)
Hans Eysenck was a British psychologist who became influential for his theories about personality and intelligence, particularly his work on categorizing personality traits into measurable dimensions. His research and ideas shaped how psychologists think about and study human personality, though some of his conclusions have been controversial and debated by later scholars.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Intelligence
- The Dynamics of Anxiety and Hysteria
- Eysenck Personality Scales
- Structure and Measurement of Intelligence
- Smoking, Health and Personality
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 22,639x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,517x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,392x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,355x
- Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy
· 2013 · cited 13,117x
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Quotes
- “Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they have specialized, are just as ordinary, pigheaded and unreasonable as anybody else.”
- “I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.”
- “[R]oughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.”
- “There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.”
- “They bought research as they bought vegetables - a wonderful insight into official thinking about science.”
- “If the reader does not like some of the facts that emerge, I hope against hope that he will not blame me for their existence.”
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- 1916-03-16
- date of death
- 1997-09-04
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- name in native language
- Hans Jürgen Eysenck
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Article
Hans Jürgen Eysenck (/ˈaɪzɛŋk/ EYE-zenk; 4 March 1916 – 4 September 1997) was a German-born British psychologist. He is best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, although he worked on other issues in psychology. At the time of his death, Eysenck was the most frequently cited living psychologist in peer-reviewed scientific journal literature.
Eysenck's research included claims that certain personality types had an elevated risk of cancer and heart disease and research on IQ scores and race (first published in 1971), which were a significant source of controversy. Scholars have identified errors and suspected data manipulation in Eysenck's work, and large replications have failed to confirm the relationships that he purported to find.