MBTI Step III: Why Go There?
What is the practical value of the MBTI Step III given that there are so many personality assessment tools on the market, including the MBTI Step I and II? What is to be gained by using this tool over…
Sensing versus Intuition: An Exercise to Identify Your Preference
Perception is the lens you use to take in information. Carl Jung identified two types of perception, sensing and intuition. To illustrate these differences to college students during a workshop, I used this classic photo of dogs playing poker. I…
Introversion vs. Extraversion: The Tip of the Jungian Iceberg
The gift of introversion has been getting a lot of press lately. Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts In a World That Can't Stop Talking, has brought the real essence of introversion to light. It wasn't that long…
Type theory states that psychological type doesn’t change, but my type changed when I took the MBTI again!
Psychological type theory (the basis for the MBTI assessment) states that your psychological type does not change, that it's innate or wired into you. Still a significant number of people can retake the assessment and come up with a different…
The MBTI Step III: Illuminating the Path to Healthy Type Development
The MBTI Step III is a tool that describes an individual’s progress toward healthy type development. Psychological type is not a static label but a dynamic path leading toward maturity of the personality. At the Association for Psychological Type International…
Rising to the Challenge: Identifying Neural Correlates in Psychological Type
Brain science has been one of the central topics in the scientific world in the last decade. This has been an exciting time for brain researchers. Thanks to PET, MEG,SPECT fMRI, and even EEG mapping techniques, many of the theories about…
Tapping Into Positive Psychology Using the MBTI
A primary focus of positive psychology is to help people identify and build on their unique strong points. Strengths are built-in capacities for certain thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Everyone possesses the full range of these assets, but the ability to draw…
Cognitive Blind Spots and New Year’s Resolutions
Cognitive blind spots. Everyone has them. Cognitive blind spots are often manifested as repeated patterns of ineffective behavior or resolutions to change that seem to fall short of the goal. The nature of blind spots is that one is…
MBTI Step III in a Nutshell
Many people have encountered the MBTI either at work, at a career center, or in counseling. Several online tests incorporate MBTI principles. The MBTI I describes the broad strokes of an individual personality with the goal of identifying people with…
Wall Street Journal: Using the MBTI for Career Planning
The April 22, 2010 issue of the Wall Street Journal profiled the use of the MBTI in career planning: It seems that this old classic is still pertinent even today. I will have to write a comment to the paper…