Here’s How You Handle Anger, Based on Your Personality Type
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Here’s How You Handle Anger, Based on Your Personality Type

When you get angry are you the type of person who blows up on the spot? Or do you suppress your anger, trying to deal with it internally rather than externally? According to the MBTI® Manual, there are four unique personality types that are the most likely to get angry and not show it. There…

The Average Versions of Every Myers-Briggs® Personality Type
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The Average Versions of Every Myers-Briggs® Personality Type

When you’re trying to learn about your personality type you might find yourself confused if all the descriptions you read are of extremely healthy or inspiring versions of the type. Let’s face it. We’re not all operating at an ideal version of our type at all times. As an INFJ I’m not always filled to…

Is the MBTI® Scientific?
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Is the MBTI® Scientific?

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® is an assessment that aims to sort people into one of 16 different personality types. The indicator is derived from the work of Swiss psychoanalyst C.G. Jung, who first wrote about psychological type in his groundbreaking 1921 work, Psychological Types. The MBTI® assessment is used by 80 percent of the Fortune…

Here’s What It’s Like Inside the Mind of an ISFP, ISTP, ESFP or ESTP
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Here’s What It’s Like Inside the Mind of an ISFP, ISTP, ESFP or ESTP

Are you someone who craves adventure and looks for new experiences and opportunities at every turn? Do you consider yourself realistic and pragmatic but also drawn towards excitement and novelty? If so you might be an Adventurer, or SP, personality type. People with a preference for sensing and perceiving like to stay open to new…

The Five Differences Between Socionics and Myers-Briggs
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The Five Differences Between Socionics and Myers-Briggs

This article is a guest post written by Johannes Karlsson, founder of Sociothena.com Have you ever heard the name “socionics” pop up in a conversation about MBTI, as a comparison or complement? Have you heard about quadras, the demonstrative function, or the aristocratic types, but don’t have a clue what these things mean? Fear not…