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 ...

What Is a Personality Test? A personality test usually involves a suite of questions meant to bucket the test-taker into a category said to describe their behavioral archetype. The goal of the ...

The Myers-Briggs personality test is derived from the theory of psychological types described by C. G. Jung. Many people take the test in order to find out more about themselves, including information ...

Any good test needs to demonstrate two things. Good validity (measuring what it’s supposed to measure) and reliability (stability, so that you don’t get different scores for the same person at ...

Love them or hate them, personality tests can convince people that they know themselves. But for the Christian, what good is self-knowledge if it does not change one’s behavior?

In the 2018 book, The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing, Dr. Merve Emre explains that personality testing has become a $2 billion industry, ...

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator divides the world’s personalities into 16 different types. While the labels it produces may be alluring, is there any science behind the test? The Daily spoke to ...

This is all trivial fun for teenagers, of course. No one really believes that the quality of your friendships can be ranked by your Myers-Briggs personality type. And yet, thousands of companies rely ...

"The language of type can be immensely clarifying," says author Merve Emre. In The Personality Brokers she describes how a mother-daughter duo... How The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Began In A ...

In the 2018 book, The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing, Dr. Merve Emre explains that personality testing has become a $2 billion industry, ...