These Are the 4 Most Unfriendly Myers-Briggs Personality Types, According to a Psychotherapist originally appeared on Parade.

Briggs was a housewife with a deep interest in Jung; before she wrote a survey that served as a prototype of Myers-Briggs personality tests, Myers wrote mystery novels.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a well-known personality assessment tool based on the theories of psychologist Carl Jung. Research on its accuracy has had mixed results.

The 16 "types" of the Myers-Briggs index directly relate to Jung's thinking, and Jung's approval of her ideas offered validation for her explorations.

If you’re unfamiliar with the test, here’s the lowdown. The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality test based on the ideas of philosopher and theorist Carl Jung.

It has become popular in academic circles to dismiss the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and Jung's cognitive functions as invalid and unreliable personality theories.

A look at the indicator's controversial, complicated past.5 things you didn’t know about the history of the Myers-Briggs system A look at the indicator's controversial, complicated past.

The Myers-Briggs test can have various business applications. Check out traits of the 16 personality types along with which personality types team up well with each other.

She became interested in personology, as she called it, largely as a result of an obsession her mother, Katharine Cook Briggs (1875–1968), had with the ideas of psychoanalyst Carl Jung.