Let's look at the posthumous construction of the personality cult of Communist "secular saint" Lenin!
The same year that her identity was revealed, Robert Rieber, a psychologist at John Jay, presented a paper at the American Psychological Association in which he accused Mason's doctor of a "fraudulent construction of a multiple personality," based on tape-recordings that Schreiber had given him.
The first study (N = 1575) reports on the construction of a new personality scale to assess generalized opinion leadership by fitting a polytomous Rasch model to the data.
Conceptual, methodological, and statistical issues can be raised concerning the construction of Type D personality as a categorical variable, whether Type D is sufficiently distinct from other negative affect variables, and if it could be plausibly assumed to predict mortality independent of depressive symptoms and known biomedical factors, including disease severity.
His main interests are in the areas of personality, psychometrics and selection test construction.
In this article, we first provide an overview of the advantages and challenges of single-item measures of personality, a rationale for their construction, and a summary of alternative ways of assessing their reliability.
"She's full of personality.
The inconsistency of identity, of personality.
Is it lack of personality?
Footballers: entirely devoid of personality.
