Personality and Planeetary Position at Birth: an attempted replication with ordinary people

Author: Startup, Dr. Michael
Abstract: At present a key question in astrological research is whether diurnal planetary effects are confined to eminent people. In order to investigate this, 23 predictions concerning the personality correlates of planets placed in Gauquelin’s plus zones at birth were obtained from previous experiments and from judges. These predictions were tested on 468 ordinary people by means of 11 measures of personality from the EPQ and the 16PF. Only three of the predictions gained any support: Mars in plus zones was associated with Psychoticism (p<0.05) and Extraversion (p<0.1). Because of the many failures to replicate, no firm conclusions can be drawn from these results.
Keywords: Extraversion, Introversion, Psychoticism, EPQ, 16PF, Gauquelin plus zones, eminence, ordinary people
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Publication: Correlation: Astrological Association Journal of Research In Astrology
Issue: Volume 4 Issue 2
Dated: 1984
Pages: Pages 4 – 13