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Personality and position of the planets at birth: An empirical study
Author(s) -
Gauquelin M.,
Gauquelin Françoise,
Eysenck S. B. G.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1979.tb00306.x
Subject(s) - psychoticism , extraversion and introversion , personality , neuroticism , mars exploration program , psychology , big five personality traits , planet , social psychology , developmental psychology , physics , astronomy
The precise birth dates and locations of several thousand famous French scientists, sportsmen, and actors were ascertained from their biographies, as well as personality descriptions. From the data relating to birth times and locations the precise positions of the planets Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were calculated for each person, with particular attention being paid to the period immediately following the rise and the upper culmination of the respective planets. The personality descriptions were independently rated in terms of their relevance to the three major personality dimensions of E (extraversion), N (neuroticism), and P (psychoticism), and scores assigned to each of the people forming the sample on these dimensions, and their opposites (i.e. there are separate scores for introversion as well as for extraversion.) It was predicted and found that introverts are very significantly more frequently born when Saturn had just risen or just passed its upper culmination; extraverts when Mars and Jupiter had just risen, or just passed their upper culminations. No positive effects were found for neuroticism and only relatively weak effects for psychoticism.