Personality characteristics of Freud and Jung were assessed by 17 members of a psychology class familiar with biographical and autobiographical material of these subjects by means of Gough's Adjective Check List, Terms used in describing the men and ACL profiles scored on composite lists were consistent with expectation, Blind interpretation of profiles by the test author accorded with knowledge of the subjects. On special scales for "intellectence" and "origence" the subjects fell high on both dimensions which is typical of creative persons.
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George S. Welsh (1975) studied this question.
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