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Isabel Briggs Myers (born Isabel Briggs; October 18, 1897 – May 5, 1980 [1] [2]) was an American writer who co-created the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) with her mother, Katharine Cook Briggs. [3] The MBTI is one of the most-often used personality tests worldwide; over two million people complete the questionnaire each year. [3]
Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type is a 1980 book written by Isabel Briggs Myers with Peter B. Myers, which describes the insights into the psychological type model originally developed by C. G. Jung as adapted and embodied in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality test.
The MBTI was constructed during World War II by Americans Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers, inspired by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's 1921 book Psychological Types. [7] The test assigns a binary value to each of four categories: introversion or extraversion, sensing or intuition, thinking or feeling, and judging or ...
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Katharine Cook Briggs (January 3, 1875 – July 10, 1968) was an American writer who was the co-creator, with her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers, of an inventory of a widely popular personality type system known as the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).
The year 1942 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. ... Isabel Briggs Myers, produce the first Briggs-Myers Type Indicator.
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Building on the writings and observations of Jung during World War II, Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother, Katharine C. Briggs, delineated personality types by constructing the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator. [13] [14] This model was later used by David Keirsey with a different understanding from Jung, Briggs and Myers. [15]