Types of Personality

Types of Personality

Believed that we all use these four (4) functions in our lives, but that each individual uses the different functions with a varying amount of success and frequency. We could identify an order of preference for these functions within individuals. The function which someone uses most frequently is their "dominant function”.

The dominant function is supported by an “auxiliary function”, “tertiary function” and “inferior function”. Asserted that individuals either "extraverted" or "introverted" their dominant function. He felt that the dominant function was so important, that it overshadowed all of the other functions in terms of defining personality type. Therefore, can be defined eight personality types ‘Extraverted Sensing’, ‘Introverted Sensing’, ‘Extraverted Intuition’, ‘Introverted Intuition’, ‘Extraverted Thinking’, ‘Introverted Thinking’, ‘Extraverted Feeling’ and ‘Introverted Feeling’.

Yellow Monster Edition

Personality typing is a tool with many uses. It's especially notable for its helpfulness in the areas of growth and self-development. Learning and applying the theories of personality type can be a powerful and rewarding experience, if it is used as a tool for discovery, rather than as a method for putting people into boxes, or as an excuse for behaviour. 

          The sixteen personality types which we use in our assessment are based on the well-known. The theory that individuals each had a psychological type. There were two basic kinds of "functions" which humans used in their lives: 1. how we take in information (how we "perceive" things), and 2. how we make decisions. 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.

Expounded upon quietly working in silence and developing theories further for making the work on Personality Types visible. Asserted the importance of the auxiliary function working with the dominant function in defining Personality Type. While incorporating the auxiliary function into the picture, it became apparent that there was another distinctive preference which hadn't been defined, ‘Judging and Perceiving’.

The developed theory today is that every individual has a primary mode of operation within four categories, flow of energy, respond to the information, decision making and basic day to day lifestyle. Our Flow of Energy defines how we receive the essential part of our stimulation. Do we receive it from within ourselves (Introverted) or from external sources (Extraverted)? Is our dominant function focused externally or internally? 

          The combination of our four "preferences" defines our personality type. Although everybody functions across the entire spectrum of the preferences, each individual has a natural preference which leans in one direction or the other within the four categories. The categories, we "prefer" to be either ‘Extraverted or Introverted’, ‘Sensing or in Tuite’, ‘Thinking or Feeling’ and ‘Judging or Perceiving’. We all naturally use one mode of operation within each category more easily and more frequently than we use the other mode of operation. So, we are said to "prefer" one function over the other.

          The topic of how we take information deals with our preferred method of taking in and absorbing information. Do we trust our five senses (sensing) to take in information, or do we rely on our instincts (intuitive)? The third type of preference, how we prefer to ‘Make Decisions’, refers to whether we are prone to decide things based on logic and objective consideration (thinking), or based on our personal, subjective value systems (feeling). 

Conclusion

          Are we organized and purposeful, and more comfortable with scheduled, structured environments (Judging), or are we flexible and diverse, and more comfortable with open, casual environments (Perceiving)? From a theoretical perspective, we know that if our highest ‘Extraverted’ function is a Decision Making function, we prefer ‘Judging’. If our highest ‘Extraverted’ function is an Information Gathering function, we prefer ‘Perceiving’. From the first paragraph that have been mention, the first three preferences were the basis of Personality Types. The theory of the fourth preference, which is concerned with how we deal with the external world on a Day-to-day Basis.

Compilation of research by :

• Carl Jung,
• Katharine C. Briggs,
• Isabel Briggs Myers.

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Physical vs Personality.

"A Beautiful Appearance Will Last A Decades, But A Beautiful Personality 

Will Last A Lifetime".

Case Study

Physical and Personality

We usually think that our physical appearance reflects our personality. If you have heavy eyelids you keep your feelings to yourself, if you have a long thin nose you are probably a workaholic, etc. Despite these common beliefs of how some facial features represent personality, it is hard to think that humans are so predictable and easy to analyses.

Judging personality is definitely not an easy job but not in the eyes of an experience person. Throughout the time we have heard many people saying that when getting to know someone, what matters is personality instead of physical appearance. Nevertheless, it is the appearance what first catches people attention. But, what happens when one depends on the other one?

“Isn´t Physical Appearance really important”, or “Isn’t the

Personality matter the most”.

Does personality depends on physical appearance? What do people usually believe? Have you ever met someone who reflects his/her personality through their facial features? Do you believe in this theory?

Situation 1  :

The important to describe the interest of this two factor (physical and personality) is gender differences are generally apparent at all ages. The importance of gender differences across the life span in once appearance concern and once self-esteem is discussed.


        Age, gender, and gender role differences on a set of variables including concern about eating, body weight, and physical appearance, global self-esteem, and self-esteem were examined in a sample of subjects consisting of 639 visitors to a participatory science museum. Their ages ranged from 10 to 79 years. Results showed that females are more concerned than males about eating, body weight, and physical appearance and have lower self-esteem (personality).

Situation 2  :

The research about faces affect hiring decisions and could influence voting behavior. Here, we show that facial appearance has important effects on choice of leader. We also show that there may be no general characteristics of faces that can win votes, demonstrating that face traits and information about the environment interact in choice of leader. Human groups are unusual among primates in that our leaders are often democratically selected.

        We show that changing context from war time to peace time during the election can affect which face receives the most votes (Situation 1) and differences in facial shape alone between candidates can predict who wins or loses in an election (Situation 2). Our studies highlight the role of personal attributions in face perception and the role of face shape in voting behavior.

Situation 3  :

In one more analysis found that a teacher's expectations about a child's behavior strongly influence child’s actual behavior. Generally, teachers will become the first impressions of children and thus develop their expectations for them from two sources of information (the children's school record and their physical appearance).

In this experiment, teachers were given objective information, presumably about a child's scholastic and social potential, accompanied by a photograph of an attractive or an unattractive boy or girl. It was found that the child's attractiveness was significantly associated with the teacher's expectations about how intelligent the child was, how interested in education his parents were, how far he was likely to progress in school, and how popular he would be with his peers.

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