Human Capital and Economic Opportunity: A Global Working Group

William Revelle

Northwestern University
Professor of Psychology

I have been a professor of psychology at Northwestern University since 1973 where I direct the graduate program in personality psychology. I chairman of the department of psychology for 9 years. My teaching and research emphasizes that personality is the last refuge of the generalist in psychology and that personality theorists need to collaborate with cognitive, social, clinical and biologically oriented psychologists as well as economists, political scientists and statisticians. My research ranges from developing new psychometric algorithms and telemetric means of data collection to the interative effect of personality, time of day and caffeine on cognitive performance. I am a former president of the Association of Research in Personality, the International Society for the study of Individual Differences, and the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology and a fellow of AAAS and APS. I am the current chair of the Governing Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.  

Working Group

Identity and Personality (IP)

Additional Information

Email: revelle@northwestern.edu
Homepage: http://personality-project.org/revelle.html