The official Myers-Briggs Type Indicator can be taken online for $50, but there are plenty of free knock-offs floating around the internet. I took two while writing this review. One says I'm ISTJ ...

The Myers-Briggs personality test is entrenched in business culture. It's taken by more than 2.5 million people a year. A full 89 of the Fortune 100 companies use it. The test promises to tell you ...

The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality test based on the ideas of philosopher and theorist Carl Jung.The test is meant to help people better understand themselves, their purpose ...

The MBTI was initially developed in the 1940s by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter, Isabell Briggs Myers, loosely based on a personality typology created by psychoanalyst Carl Jung. Skip to ...

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. MBTI classifies ...

Katharine — who had already developed her own system of categorizing people’s personalities — became fixated with Carl Jung’s “Psychological Types” in the early 1920s, even striking up ...

Katharine Briggs, left, and daughter Isabel Myers, shown in 1923, created the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality test, which is now given to roughly 2 million people a year.

Myers and Briggs weren't social scientists themselves. 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 ...

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. However, a thorough ...

On Briggs discovering the work of Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung. She spends so much of her adult life caring for children — both hers and others' — that when her only daughter Isabel goes off ...