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 ...

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Extroverted, feeling, intuitive . . . it sounds like something out of a Match.com ad, so you can see how critics might dismiss the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator as gimmicky or unscientific. The latest ...

The dictionary defines “personality” this way: “The combination of characteristics or qualities that form a person’s distinctive character.” Tony Glaros Longmont Lessons In a sense, it becomes ...

Kempton Warr considers the Myers-Briggs personality test so accurate that it reveals his personality in an "almost freaky" way. The Utah resident, who was shopping at the Mall of America recently, ...

Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter, Isabel, the inventors of the Myers-Briggs test. Illustration by Kay Wasil If you’re one of the 2 million people who take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator every ...

Merve Emre is is an associate professor of English at the University of Oxford and author of “Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America.” In her latest book, “The Personality Brokers, ...