What’s Your Type? The History, Promise, and Limits of Personality Typing
With Dr. Paula Fried & Dr. Steve Hoekstra
Wednesday, February 11 • 6–7 pm
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) emerged as a personality assessment tool in the 1940s—an effort to quantify and organize insights into personality structure from ideas developed by Carl Jung. While Wikipedia describes the MBTI as “pseudoscientific,” it remains in wide use, popular, for example, with consultants and HR departments eager to help divergent personalities work better together. It’s also rooted in efforts to create personality types that go back to Antiquity. In this talk, psychologists Dr. Paula Fried and Dr. Steve Hoekstra will discuss the origins, appeal, limitations, and possible on-going utility of the ideas behind personality typing.