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Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

By Timothy Moore - The MBTI's reliability is only fair. One study showed that fewer than half of the respondents retained their initial types over a 5-week period. Consequently, we should be careful about making career decisions based on a classification system that is unstable. People change over time as a result of experience (Added: 15-Jan-2002 Hits: 1407 )

Personal Styles -- Time-Waster or Useful - The MBTI Shuffle

By Robert Bacal - You can find them almost everywhere. Myers-Briggs, Enneagrams, leadership styles, learning styles, communication styles, teaching styles, conflict management styles...all designed to classify or label people so they can better understand themselves and others. More and more training vendors are using style questionnaires as a basis for training and development. The question is: are they really useful, or are they just fun exercises akin to astrology? (Added: 15-Jan-2002 Hits: 1629 )

A Sceptic Look At Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

By NA - In short, Jung's typology is more philosophy than science. What is science, I would say, is bad science because he didn't do controlled studies and he relied too heavily upon his own insights and evaluations of what he observed. His terminology is imprecise and equivocal. Finally, there is no meaningful way to falsify his claims about psychological types (Added: 15-Jan-2002 Hits: 1623 )

Working out your Myers Briggs type

By NA - This article introduces 'Myers Briggs', one of the most popular models of personality in the world. It also provides some help in working out your own Myers Briggs type. (Added: 15-Jan-2002 Hits: 2428 )

Using Myers Briggs in the Workplace

By NA - Learning to understand your own and others' Myers Briggs preferences can be immensely valuable in the workplace. For example, it will reduce time spent on unproductive work due to personality differences, enable you and colleagues to reach better decisions more quickly, and improve your enjoyment of work. This article looks at one of the Myers Briggs preferences - "Extroversion vs. Introversion" - and gives you some guidelines on ways to work better with someone of the opposite preference. (Added: 10-Oct-2002 Hits: 1852 )

Carl Jung and anti-Semitism: The Wounded Healer

By Rob Couteau - The nineteenth century saw increasing progress in rationalism and materialistic science, yet by mid- to late century it was also host to a resurgence of things of a more mystic, occult, or spiritual nature, such as Eastern religion, parapsychology, and even Madame Blavatsky%u2019s theosophy. In his private seminars held mostly in the 1920s and %u201830s, the Swiss-German psychologist Carl Jung %u2013 the discover of archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the synchronicity principle (Added: 8-May-2003 Hits: 969 )

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