The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre

The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing

Merve Emre

307 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology science challenging informative slow-paced
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An unprecedented history of the personality test conceived a century ago by a mother and her daughter–fiction writers with no formal training in psychology–and how it insinuated itself into our boardrooms, classrooms, and beyondThe Myers-Briggs Ty...

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