How to Compare Keirsey and Myers-Briggs Personality Typology
The Keirsey and Myers-Briggs personality tests, or typologies, are maps of human personalities. The two tests seem similar, especially when compared with other non-psychological typologies. However, you'll find significant differences between the tests. .
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Learn the background of the Myers-Briggs typology. The test was developed by a layman who condensed non-scientific Jungian theories. Study the history of the work of Keirsey, a professional psychologist who developed his typology with the benefit of having years to conduct more research and an understanding of the already existing Myers-Briggs typology.
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Understand the different perspectives that each typology provides, specifically the behavior-centric orientation of Myers-Briggs and the holistic aspects of Keirsey. Myers-Briggs used four personality types, based on folk categories related to how people act. Keirsey included people's feelings, ambitions and ideas in developing his typology.
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Inspect the temperaments, roles and intelligences that Keirsey mapped onto the existing Myers-Briggs personality types. Keirsey's variation reveal a more nuanced look at personality that uses global metaphors ("martians" are introspective while "earthlings" are observant) to better explain how people's natures determine their interactions with their environments.
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Take Keirsey's test, which you can find accurately reproduced at Keirsey.com. Find an accurate, professional level Myers-Briggs test from CPP, the organizational behavior publisher. Take a free, informal version of the Myers-Briggs test at Humanmetrics.com.
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