Category: Myers–Briggs

Jung identified two pairs of psychological functions: Two perceiving functions: sensation (usually called “sensing” in MBTI writings) and intuition Two judging functions: thinking and feeling According to Jung’s typology model, each person uses one of these four functions more dominantly and proficiently than the other three; however, all four functions are used at different times […]

Myers–Briggs literature uses the terms extraversion and introversion as Jung first used them. Extraversion means “outward-turning” and introversion means “inward-turning”. These specific definitions vary somewhat from the popular usage of the words. Note that extraversion is the spelling used in MBTI publications. The preferences for extraversion and introversion are often called “attitudes”. Briggs and Myers recognized […]

Jung theorized that the dominant function acts alone in its preferred world: exterior for extraverts and interior for introverts. The remaining three functions, he suggested, operate together in the opposite orientation. If the dominant cognitive function is introverted the other functions are extraverted and vice versa. The MBTI Manual summarizes references in Jung’s work to […]

The most notable addition of Myers and Briggs ideas to Jung’s original thought is their concept that a given type’s fourth letter (J or P) indicates a person’s preferred extraverted function, which is the dominant function for extraverted types and the auxiliary function for introverted types.[

The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an introspective self-report questionnaire designed to indicate psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. The MBTI was constructed by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers. It is based on the typological theory proposed by Carl Jung who had speculated that there are […]