"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Emre (Paraliterary), an associate English professor at Oxford University, tells the fascinating story of the origins of the world’s most widely used personality test, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ...

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 ...

"What's that thing you do with the letters?" my grandpa asked me over dinner the other night. Oh, that thing I do with the letters. I guess it's about time I confess this publicly: My name is ...

The shift to remote work has given many of us a new perspective on how we do our jobs. Without the context of a shared workspace or the rhythm of a typical office day, our own personalities are having ...

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, ...