Aristotle, Hippocrates, Gall, Galton, Freud, Allport, Eynsenck, Mischel, Hampson
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Eynsenck - identified 3 super traits; psychoticism, extraversion and neuroticism. Strong biological basis for these traits
Mischel - proposed complex interaction between personality and situation. Responsible for a paradigm shift? Social cognitice approach
Hippocrates/Galen - the four temperaments (sanguine, choleric, melancholy, phlegmatic)
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Mesmer (1734-1815) - hypnosis. Believed everyone had a magnetic flow and that blockages in the flow could cause physical or mental illness
Galton (1882 - 1911) - the first to apply stats to the study of human differences i.e using questionnaires. Nomothetical approach
Wundt (1832 - 1920) - looked for specific locations in the brain that controlled various biological functions
