Your Myers-Briggs® Personality Type and Your Brain
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Your Myers-Briggs® Personality Type and Your Brain

BySusan Storm

Did you know that every personality type uses their brain differently? Certain types rely heavily on one set of brain regions, while another type relies heavily on a completely different set of regions. There have been numerous studies done on this subject. Neuroscience expert Dario Nardi has written in detail about this in his book…

Why That Free Online Personality Test is Totally Meaningless
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Why That Free Online Personality Test is Totally Meaningless

BySusan Storm

There are two popular articles floating around online called “Why the Myers-Briggs® Test is Totally Meaningless”, and “Goodbye to the MBTI, the Fad That Won’t Die.” I’ve read both articles a number of times, and am always amused by the huge lack of effort they took to understand the MBTI®. The articles ridicule the MBTI assessment,…

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Debunking the Arguments Against Myers-Briggs

BySusan Storm

When I discovered the Myers and Briggs’ theory of personality typing, I was filled with so much excitement over what it meant to me and my friends and family. I couldn’t wait to study those around me and figure out their ‘types’, and understand and interact with them better. However, because I’m still a skeptic…

MBTI Cognitive Functions
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Personality Testing – Fact or Farce? Part Two – Understanding the Cognitive Functions

BySusan Storm

With personality quizzes and BuzzFeed questionnaires becoming so popular on Facebook, it’s easy for people to lump the Myers’ and Briggs theory into the same category, another stupid personality test with no basis in reality. What Harry Potter character am I? What breed of dog are you? The list goes on and on. A lot of the…