Auke Tellegen

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Auke Tellegen (July 16, 1930 – March 11, 2024) was a Dutch-born American psychologist known for his contributions to personality psychology.^[1] He was a professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota from 1968 to 1999 where he helped develop the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire and contributed to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.^[2]

Tellegen was born in Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies, in 1930.^[3] He received his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1962 and did post-doctoral study in clinical psychology at the University of Minnesota Medical School.^[1][4]

Tellegen, alongside David Lykken, studied the effects that genetics had on a person's happiness.

Tellegen proposed the personality trait of absorption. In 1974 he developed the Tellegen Absorption Scale (TAS) with Gilbert Atkinson, which he revised in 1982 and 1992.^[5]

• Bruno Klopfer Award, 2000^[6]
• Jack Block Award, 2001^[7]
• APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Assessment Psychology, 2012 ^[4]

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