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Overview

Auke Tellegen is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States and has contributed to the field of psychology with a focus on clinical, applied, and experimental cognitive psychology.

Their research primarily addresses topics related to personality traits and psychology, personality disorders and psychopathology, psychological testing and assessment, and cognitive abilities and testing. These topics reflect an interdisciplinary approach to understanding human behavior and mental processes.

Their recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire-55, 2021, published in PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Development of the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire-55 abbreviated research scales., 2021, published in Psychological Assessment
  • Heritability Estimates from Twin Studies: The Efficiency of the MZA Design, 2025, published in Twin Research and Human Genetics

Tellegen has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including:

  • Craig A. Marquardt
  • Mark D. Kramer
  • Paul A. Arbisi
  • David T. Lykken
  • Seymour Geisser

Their work has appeared in publication venues with a focus on psychological research such as Psychological Assessment, PsycTESTS Dataset, and Twin Research and Human Genetics.

Their contributions cover a total of four publications attributed to the broader field of psychology, with two in clinical psychology, one in applied psychology, and one addressing experimental and cognitive psychology.

Best Publications

  • Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.

    David Watson;Lee Anna Clark;Auke Tellegen

  • Toward a consensual structure of mood.

    David Watson;Auke Tellegen

  • The study of stress and competence in children: a building block for developmental psychopathology

    Norman Garmezy;Ann S. Masten;Auke Tellegen

  • The two general activation systems of affect: Structural findings, evolutionary considerations, and psychobiological evidence

    David Watson;David Wiese;Jatin Vaidya;Auke Tellegen

  • Structures of mood and personality and their relevance to assessing anxiety, with an emphasis on self-report.

    Auke Tellegen

  • Personality similarity in twins reared apart and together.

    Auke Tellegen;David T. Lykken;Thomas J. Bouchard;Kimerly J. Wilcox

  • Sources of human psychological differences: the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart.

    Thomas J. Bouchard;David T. Lykken;Matthew McGue;Nancy L. Segal

  • Happiness Is a Stochastic Phenomenon

    David T. Lykken;Auke Tellegen

  • Openness to absorbing and self-altering experiences ("absorption"), a trait related to hypnotic susceptibility.

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  • Competence in the context of adversity: pathways to resilience and maladaptation from childhood to late adolescence.

    Ann S. Masten;Jon J. Hubbard;Scott D. Gest;Auke Tellegen

  • Exploring personality through test construction: Development of the multidimensional personality questionnaire

    Auke Tellegen;Niels G. Waller

  • Developmental cascades: linking academic achievement and externalizing and internalizing symptoms over 20 years.

    Ann S. Masten;Glenn I. Roisman;Jeffrey D. Long;Keith B. Burt

  • On the Dimensional and Hierarchical Structure of Affect

    Auke Tellegen;David Watson;Lee Anna Clark

  • The structure of mood change: An idiographic/nomothetic analysis.

    Michael A. Zevon;Auke Tellegen

  • Salient and Emerging Developmental Tasks in the Transition to Adulthood.

    Glenn I. Roisman;Ann S. Masten;J. Douglas Coatsworth;Auke Tellegen

  • The Structure and Coherence of Competence from Childhood through Adolescence

    Ann S. Masten;J. Douglas Coatsworth;Jennifer Neemann;Scott D. Gest

  • Development and validation of a brief form of the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire.

    Christopher J. Patrick;John J. Curtin;Auke Tellegen

  • Resources and resilience in the transition to adulthood: continuity and change.

    Ann S. Masten;Keith B. Burt;Glenn I. Roisman;Jelena Obradovic

  • COMPETENCE AND STRESS IN SCHOOL CHILDREN: THE MODERATING EFFECTS OF INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY QUALITIES

    Ann S. Masten;Norman Garmezy;Auke Tellegen;David S. Pellegrini

  • Old wine in new skins: grouping Wechsler subtests into new scales.

    Auke Tellegen;Peter F. Briggs

  • The Minnesota twin family registry : some initial findings

    D. T. Lykken;T. J. Bouchard;M. Mcgue;A. Tellegen

Frequent Co-Authors

David T. Lykken
David T. Lykken University of Minnesota
Yossef S. Ben-Porath
Yossef S. Ben-Porath Kent State University
Ann S. Masten
Ann S. Masten University of Minnesota
Thomas J. Bouchard
Thomas J. Bouchard University of Minnesota
David Watson
David Watson University of Notre Dame
Matt McGue
Matt McGue University of Minnesota
Niels G. Waller
Niels G. Waller University of Minnesota
Lee Anna Clark
Lee Anna Clark University of Notre Dame
Christopher J. Patrick
Christopher J. Patrick Florida State University
Scott D. Gest
Scott D. Gest University of Virginia

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