To begin even before its arrival in Washington: Myers-Briggs traces its history to 1921, when Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, published his theory of personality types in the book "Psychologische Typen." ...

Developed in the 1920s by mother-daughter team Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers and based on Carl Jung's theory of personality types, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator attempts to describe ...

Things like encouraging multi-tasking. But at The Guardian, Dean Burnett was surprised at just how common the MBTI seemed to be. Here’s his theory about why: So the next time you see those four ...

Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers, created the MBTI. They were not psychologists, but writers interested in Carl Jung’s theory of psychological types. Briggs and Myers ...

As a personality researcher, whose work focuses on Jungian type theory (the foundation on the MBTI), I have encountered my fair share of skepticism and good-tempered ribbing from other researchers.

“You’re too aware of other people’s needs; it can be hard sometimes to put what you like and how you value things above what other people are feeling,” 31-year-old Youtuber Frank James ...

The MBTI categorizes people into four preference pairs based on four distinct traits. It stresses that there are no right or wrong preferences. Still, the theory is that if you know your ...

To begin even before its arrival in Washington, D.C.: Myers-Briggs traces its history to 1921, when Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, published his theory of personality types in the book ...

Based on Jung's concepts of introversion and extroversion and his theory of personality types, US mother and daughter team Myers and Briggs created the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality ...

As a personality researcher, whose work focuses on Jungian type theory (the foundation on the MBTI), I have encountered my fair share of skepticism and good-tempered ribbing from other researchers.