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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an introspective self-report questionnaire that Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers published in 1944,1) building itself onto Carl Jung's theory described in Psychological Types.

Summary

The Four Dichotomies

The indicator categorizes people into sixteen personality types using four binary dichotomies and all types are four-letter initialism of the dichotomies, though “Intuition” is “N” to differentiate it from “Introversion”.

  • Extroversion (E) or Introversion (I)
    The “attitude” function, which assesses how you typically exert and gather energy.
  • Sensing (S) or Intuition (N)
    The “information gathering” function, which assesses how you interpret new information.
  • Thinking (T) or Feeling (F)
    The “decision making” function, which assessing what you do with that information.
  • Judging (J) or Perceiving (P)
    The “lifestyle” function, which is more complex since it's mostly for further categorization.

The Cognitive Functions

From there, we have the eight cognitive functions to assess what order you use the functions when making decisions. In other words, your “lifestyle” function will determine if your “information gathering” function or “decision making” function is your primary or auxiliary function, while the “attitude” function is just tacked on at the end. The full explanation is confusing to put in words, so here's some helpful charts:

I have apparently fucked up this chart. (・∀・)

Types and Descriptors

Below is a grid of all sixteen personality types, along with some descriptors used for them. The first two are from 16Personalities and 16TEST, while the third is the Keirsey Temperament Sorter equivalent.

ISTJ

  • Logistician
  • Hippo
  • Inspector

ISFJ

  • Defender
  • Deer
  • Protector

INFJ

  • Advocate
  • Giraffe
  • Counselor

INTJ

  • Architect
  • Tiger
  • Mastermind

ISTP

  • Virtuoso
  • Cat
  • Crafter

ISFP

  • Adventurer
  • Sheep
  • Composer

INFP

  • Mediator
  • Rabbit
  • Healer

INTP

  • Logician
  • Owl
  • Architect

ESTP

  • Entrepreneur
  • Zebra
  • Promoter

ESFP

  • Entertainer
  • Cow
  • Performer

ENFP

  • Campaigner
  • Elephant
  • Champion

ENTP

  • Debater
  • Parrot
  • Inventor

ESTJ

  • Executive
  • Bear
  • Supervisor

ESFJ

  • Consul
  • Horse
  • Provider

ENFJ

  • Protagonist
  • Dog
  • Teacher

ENTJ

  • Commander
  • Lion
  • Fieldmarshal

See also

Notes

  • If you're wondering, the curator is an INFP.
  • The grid in this article was supposed to have the population estimate as well, but I skipped it for now since I really don't want to work on this article more than I actually need to. I'll see if I can repurpose it for fictional characters when I start translating off the Japanese wiki.
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The first MBTI handbook was released in 1944 as the Briggs Myers Type Indicator Handbook, before it was renamed to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator in 1956. The first MBTI manual was released in 1962.
myers-briggs_type_indicator.txt · Last modified: 2020-09-12 01:54:50 by namelessrumia