| Auke Tellegen | |
| Birth Date: | July 16, 1930 |
| Birth Place: | Batavia, Dutch East Indies |
| Death Place: | Arden Hills, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Fields: | Clinical Psychology, personality, behavior genetics |
| Workplaces: | University of Minnesota |
| Alma Mater: | University of Minnesota |
| Thesis Title: | The Effect of Genetic and Experiential Factors Upon Emotional Reactions in Mice |
| Thesis Year: | 1962 |
| Thesis Url: | https://primo.lib.umn.edu/permalink/f/1q7ssba/UMN_ALMA21330923190001701 |
| Academic Advisors: | Gardner Lindzey |
| Doctoral Students: | James V. Haxby, David Watson, Wendy Slutske |
Auke Tellegen (July 16, 1930 – March 11, 2024) was a Dutch-born American psychologist known for his contributions to personality psychology.[1] He was a professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota from 1968 to 1999 where he helped develop the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire and contributed to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.[2]
Tellegen was born in Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies, in 1930.[3] He received his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1962 and did post-doctoral study in clinical psychology at the University of Minnesota Medical School.[4]
Tellegen, alongside David Lykken, studied the effects that genetics had on a person's happiness.
Tellegen proposed the personality trait of absorption. In 1974 he developed the Tellegen Absorption Scale (TAS) with Gilbert Atkinson, which he revised in 1982 and 1992.[5]