The MTBI type indicator is one of the most popular personality tests around the world. But its original design and the results it produces lack scientific support.
, famously known as the Myers-Briggs personality test, or MBTI, is one of the most widely used personality tests in the world. It was developed in the 1940s by the mother-daughter duo Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers — neither of whom were psychologists — to classify the various ways people perceive their environment and behave accordingly.
The test relies on the premise of four categories: introversion or extroversion, sensing or intuition, thinking or feeling, and judging or perceiving. Each individual is assigned one of the two traits in each category, which produces the 16 different MBTI personality types that we know today –– such as INTJ or ESFP. The question remains whether these types accurately capture our behavior, intentions and decision-making tendencies.
“Tests like the MBTI help us to organize our self-perceptions and experiences into coherent wholes,” says Stephen Benning, director of the Psychophysiology of Emotion and Personality Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. “The MBTI promises rich narratives to describe a respondent's personality, whereas other descriptions may feel more fragmented.”
Even though personality profiles are generic, people often feel that the descriptions accurately portray the image they have of themselves. This fallacy of personal validation is called the
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