Who are the Pioneers of Personality Research?
• Hypocrates first delineated personality types around 450 B.C. • Hypocrates described the four basic types of personality as “temperaments”. • Although the terminology for these 4 basic temperament types have changed over 2500 years, the basic idea remains unchanged. • Swiss psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung, introdced personality “preferences” in the last century. • Preferences are the natural inclinations in which we operate in this world — • how we prefer to do things. • Personality preference is similar to hand-preference (handedness) — • Right-handed people prefer to use their right-hand over their left-hand, and vice versa. • Our personality has preference too, we tend to prefer behave in a certain way over others.
