Auke Tellegen (born 1930) is a psychologist who served as a professor of psychology at the

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from 1968 to 1999. He worked on assessment, developing the

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and contributed to the

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. He received his PhD in

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from the

in 1962 and did post-doctoral study in

at the

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."2012 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Assessment Psychology".
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Research

Tellegen, alongside

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, studied the effects that genetics had on a person's happiness.

Absorption

Tellegen proposed the personality trait of

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. In 1974 he developed the Tellegen Absorption Scale (TAS) with Gilbert Atkinson, which he revised in 1982 and 1992.

Awards

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, 2000 *

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, 2001"The Jack Block Award".
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''. * APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Assessment Psychology, 2012

References

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