... 0.46; n = 50; p<0.01), sociability & residual error being correlated (rho = 0.46; n = 50; p<0.01), and also impulsivity and residual error being correlated (rho = 0.31; n= 50; p<0.05). This led us to conclude that our data partially supported our first hypothesis of normality of distribution, and fully supported our second and third hypotheses concerning orthogonality and unity, which in turn concurred with Eysenck's assumptions about his three dimensions. Introduction As one of the most influential and controversial psychologists of all time, Hans Eysenck's theory of personality is one of the most important and widely studied theories amongst social psychologists. Eysenck was highly sceptical about Freudian theories and the concepts of psychoanalysis. He was a behaviourist and argued that behaviour is all we can use to understand people, and that any theory can only be accepted with solid empirical backup from scientific testing (Monte 1999). ...

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