A great way to get to know yourself is to take the Myers-Briggs personality test. If you haven't taken the test to find out where you land on the scale, go do it right now! Sure, it's a semi-long ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Some grandmothers pass down cameo necklaces. Katharine Cook Briggs passed down the world’s most widely used personality test. Chances are you’ve taken the ...

Emre (Paraliterary), an associate English professor at Oxford University, tells the fascinating story of the origins of the world’s most widely used personality test, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ...

Want to know who you should date? Where you should live? Which books you should read? Take the Myers-Briggs personality test. It's an infallible frighteningly accurate assessment of your very being.

This post was co-authored by Jenna Zorik and Robert T Muller, Ph.D. Myers-Briggs test (MBTI) is one of the most well-known and far-reaching personality tests. At a glance, you can easily understand ...

“When it comes to accuracy,” organizational psychologist Adam Grant has written, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is better than a horoscope but less reliable than a heart monitor. Fashioned in the ...

The types describe readymade personalities suitable for a T-shirt or coffeemug: The INTP is the Architect, the INFP is the Healer, the ENTJ is the Commander. Taken together, the test and its ...

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is one of the most popular personality tests in the world. It’s also one of the most regularly debunked. The test sorts people into one of 16 four-letter personality ...

When Katharine Briggs — a mother and homemaker — began what she called a "cosmic laboratory of baby training" in her Michigan living room in the early 1900s, she didn't know she was laying the ...