Personality Today we're blogging about personality, what it means, what type you have, how you came to be that way and how common different types are. So, what is personality anyway? Personality, according to Schiffman and Kanuk (2004) it is "Those inner psychological characteristics that both determine and reflect how a person responds to his or her environment" or as Princeton WordNet puts it "the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual". How do you know what personality type you have? There are many systems that have been developed to attempt to map personality types. A popular test is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) system in which there are 16 types (based on Carl Jung's original system of only 8). There are many personality tests and quizzes available to complete which use this system. Here are one , two and three . ( and a fun little drawing personality test,...
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