Myers Briggs

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Isabel Briggs Myers – Less Personality is More |
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9/26/2011 |

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Isabel Briggs Myers wanted to make a difference in the lives of students, colleagues, and friends.   She believed that “people differ based on their relative interest in the outer world of people and things (extraversion) versus the inner world of ideas and concepts (introversion).”   (Evans, 2010)   Myers expanded on Carl Jung’s theory to show that she could develop a way to sort people by psychological type preferences to identify extroverts and introverts, also known as Personality Typing.  
Personality typing can be used for several different learning aspects within higher education.   It can be very helpful for admission counselors, disability counselors, and administrative staff to be a tool for discovery with incoming freshmen and graduating seniors.   It could also be utilized to help floundering sophomores and juniors in career counseling.
“There are sixteen personality types based on the well-known research of Carl Jung, Katharine C. Briggs, and Isabel Briggs Myers. Carl Jung first developed the theory that individuals each had a psychological type.”   [ (Foundation) ]   Jung believed that there were two basic kinds of "functions" which humans used in their lives: how we take in information (how we "perceive" things), and how we make decisions. Jung believed that within these two categories, there were two opposite ways of functioning. We can perceive information via 1) our senses, or 2) our intuition. We can make decisions based on 1) objective logic, or 2) subjective feelings. Jung believed that we all use these four functions in our lives, but that each individual uses the different functions with a varying amount of success and frequency. Jung said we could identify an order of preference for these functions within individuals. The function that someone uses most frequently is his or her "dominant" function. The dominant function is supported by an auxiliary (2nd)... [continues]

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