The Personality and the Presidency Project

 
Home Page
Personality and the Presidency Project
Founders
Personality Testing
Order your books / Frame quality Prints used in Personality and the Presidency Project
Support our Project
Media Room
Contacting Us

    Producing Personality Portraits

There are three types of information in the personality portraits we produce: 1) Scores on personality scales, 2) a description of the person based on the items the raters most strongly endorsed, and 3) anecdotes and quotes.

After collecting answers from multiple experts on a particular person, we analyze their ratings item by item, looking for those descriptions that are endorsed most highly (or rejected most strongly) and where there is agreement across the experts. We then create paragraphs based on these themes and items. The result is an objective, highly detailed description of the person's personality - a personality portrait.

Unlike the interpretations in a standard psychological report, these are not based on the psychologist's personal interpretations. And unlike personality descriptions generated by test interpretation software, they are specific to the person being rated, not some group of people who obtain similar scores. In a very real sense, this is akin to the beginning of photography, where we can capture a person's personality apart from the impressions and interpretations of the artist.
 

© Dr.Steve Rubenzer & Dr. Thomas R. Faschingbauer

Home | US Presidents | Founders | Personality Test for Future Presidents | Books & Prints | Support Our Project |
2004 Elections & Candidates | Types of Presidents | Predicting Success | Personality Portraits |
Contact Dr. Steve Rubenzer

Website Designed & Maintained by: A1WebSystems