The Psychometrics Centre

Brian  Little is Visiting Scholar in the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He is also Visiting Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He obtained his PhD in Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley and has taught at Oxford, Carleton McGill and Harvard.  He has received numerous honours both for his teaching and research.

Brian's pioneering work on personal projects has made him one of the leading theorists in contemporary personality and motivational psychology, with particular implications for life-span development, cultural and health psychology, well-being and the pursuit of happiness. Personal Projects Analysis (PPA) places personality within its social, physical and temporal context. It is a sequential model in which the major stages of project inception, planning, action, and termination are described in detail and related to dimensions of individual differences. Its methodology includes techniques for assessing interproject impact and linkages with values and actions.