Sybil Eysenck

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Sybil and Hans Eysenck

Sybil Bianca Giulietta Eysenck (born Sibylle Bianca Giulietta Rostal ; born March 15, 1927 in Vienna ) is a British personality psychologist and widow of the well-known personality psychologist Hans Jürgen Eysenck , with whom she worked. Their son Michael W. Eysenck is also a psychologist.

Life

Sybil was born in Vienna in 1927 as the daughter of violinists Max Rostal and Sela Trau. In 1934 she went into exile with her parents in Great Britain and was naturalized there in 1946.

Together with Hans she developed the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and later the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory , for which she is responsible.

She is currently (alongside Philip A. Vernon ) editor-in-chief of the journal Personality and Individual Differences founded by her husband and published by Elsevier and lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry in London and a member of the board.

Fonts (selection)

  • Sybil BG Eysenck: Foreword. In: Hans J. Eysenck: The Biological Basis of Personality . Transaction Publ., New Brunswick, NJ 2006, ISBN 978-1-412-80554-4 (first edition Springfield, Ill. 1967)
  • Sybil BG Eysenck: Foreword. In: Hans J. Eysenck: The Structure and Measurement of Intelligence . Revised new edition. Transaction Publ., New Brunswick, NJ 2006, ISBN 1-412-80595-3 (first edition, New York 1979).
  • Sybil BG Eysenck: Foreword. In: Hans J. Eysenck: The Social Consequences of Modern Psychology . New edition Transaction Publ., New Brunswick, NJ 2008, ISBN 978-1-412-80747-0 (former title: Psychology is about people , 1972).
  • Sybil BG Eysenck: Individual Differences in Children and Adolescents . New edition Transaction Publ., New Brunswick, NJ 1997, ISBN 1-560-00981-0 (together with Donald Saklofske).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Rostal - personal data . In: Claudia Maurer Zenck u. a. (Ed.): Lexicon of persecuted musicians from the Nazi era . Musicological Institute of the University of Hamburg 2005ff (online)
  2. ^ Hans Jürgen Eysenck & Sybil BG Eysenck: Manual of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire . 2nd ed., Hodder & Stoughton, London 1993 (EA London 1975).
  3. ^ Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory in WorldCat .
  4. ↑ John Maltby, Liz Day, Ann Macaskill: Differential Psychology, Personality, and Intelligence . 2nd, updated edition, Pearson Studium, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86894-050-3 , p. 317.
  5. ^ Personality and Individual Differences. Journal homepage at Elsevier , accessed on March 25, 2017.
  6. ^ Former Officers and Directors of ISSID. The International Society for the Study of Individual Differences , accessed March 25, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b c The foreword by Sybil BG Eysenck is missing in the earlier edition.
personal data
SURNAME Eysenck, Sybil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eysenck, Sybil Bianca Giuliett
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna