What is personality theory?
Personality theory was developed by Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), expanded by Katharine Cook Briggs (1875-1968) and Isabel Briggs Myers (1896-1980), and further fleshed out by the likes of David Keirsey, Lenore Thomson, and Naomi Quenk. When the mind is working, it’s always working in one of two roles: it is either Perceiving or Judging. There are two different processes by which one can Perceive: • Sensing • iNtuition And two different processes by which one can Judge: • Thinking • Feeling Each of the four processes (Sensing, iNtuition, Thinking, and Feeling) must be applied in a particular domain: • The Introverted domain is the internal world of ideas and emotions. • The Extroverted domain is the external world of people and actions. All people have all four processes (Thinking, Feeling, iNtuition, and Sensing), but have different preferences for how often and in which domain (Introverted or Extroverted) they use them. A process (T, F, N, and S) used in a particular domain (I or E)
