Lewis R. Goldberg is an American personality psychologist and a professor emeritus at the University of Oregon who is closely associated with the Big Five taxonomy of personality. He is the creator of the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP), a website that provides public-domain personality measures.
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In 1953 Goldberg received an A.B. in social relations from Harvard University. He earned a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1958.
After receiving his doctorate, Goldberg became an acting assistant professor at Stanford University. Since 1960 he has taught at the University of Oregon, where he is Professor Emeritus. He is a senior scientist at the Oregon Research Institute, where he has taught since 1961.
From 1962 to 1966, Goldberg served as a field selection officer for the United States Peace Corps. In 1966 he became a Fulbright professor at the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. In 1970 he spent a year as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
In 1974 he was a Fulbright professor again, at Istanbul University in Turkey. From 1980 to 1986 he served in the Intelligence Division of the United States Secret Service. He was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study from 1981 to 1982.
Goldberg has published more than 100 research articles.
Goldberg has served on the Personality and Cognition Research Review Committee and the Cognition, Emotion, and Personality Research Review Committee of the National Institute of Mental Health and on the Graduate Record Examination Board Research Committee.
Since 2007 Goldberg has been chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the software company Signal Patterns.
   | Goldberg's homepage - Lewis R. Goldberg, Ph.D. |
| | IPIP website - International Personality Item Pool |
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