Socionics

GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY WHAT IS PERSONALITY? FUNCTIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF PERSONALITY IN PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LIVES. By, Arijit Panigrahy 14CS30005 Email Id: arijitpanigrahy@gmail.com Cell: +91-9933906939 DEFINITION OF PERSONALITY Personality refers to individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. It is a dynamic and organized set of characteristics possessed by a person that uniquely influences their environment, cognitions, emotions, motivations,…

BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator, developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and Katherine Briggs, explains some of the major differences among people. It deals with four pairs of preferences: extraversion and introversion; sensing and intuition; thinking and feeling; and judgment and perception. The preference for extraversion and introversion is concerned with the direction of an individual’s energy. Extraversion is the preference for dealing with people, situations,…

Last week I discovered my Myers-Briggs personality type by taking an online MBTI assessment for class. I discovered that I am an ESTP which stands for extravert, sensory, thinking, and perceiving. The type that was assigned to me was fairly accurate, especially when I compared it to past decisions I have made and experiences I have had. Reading about my MBTI preferences has caused me to understand certain aspects in my life more clearly. I have realized how my personality connects with how I…

The four major theoretical perspectives on personality are Introverted Sensing, Extraverted Thinking, Introverted Thinking, And Extraverted Intuition. Introverted Sensing or, “Si”, is oriented toward the world of forms, essences, generics. The moderation of the Extraverted Thinking(Te) function serves to socialize the expression of these forms. Since Introverted feeling(Fi) is turned inward, it is rarely expressed. Extraverted intuition(Ne) function of an ISTJ does not serve her very well. It…

The results of the Jung Typology Test identifies my personality type as being ISTJ. These letters stand for Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, and Judging. The percentage I received for each of the letters ISTJ were (I) 12%, (S) 6%, (T) 1%, and (J) 16%. After reading the explanations of these traits, I tend to see my personality described by some and not by others. You could not really say it “hit the nail on the head”. This personality type is described as having a keen sense of right and wrong,…

My personality type surprised me. I’ve always thought of myself as soft-spoken, intelligent, and very introverted. I don’t normally lead situations, but I’ve usually had the ideas that could. The personality type that I got was ENTJ or E (extrovert), N (intuitive), T (thinking), J (judging). This personality is the “Commander”, the natural born leaders. I was shocked to see that Gordon Ramsey, Steve Jobs, Margaret Thatcher, and Whoopi Goldberg were a few people in which I share common traits…

Jung and Myers technique of giving a letter to each word and combining them is used by many different theories and ideas like Socionics, Keirsey Temperament Sorter, and Linda Berens’ interaction styles. The Myers and Briggs Indicator is one of the most popular and used personality tests out currently. Of course, Jung did not create it, but it was built off of his original personality theories. The idea of personality typologies originated with Jung and was adopted by many other theorists and…

Carl Jung was born in July 26, 1875 in a town called Kesswill Switzerland. Carl lived a long full life and died at the age of 85 on June 6, 1961. He was often referred to by the name C.G Jung and was a psychotherapists and psychiatrist. Although Jung is world renowned for his work, many of his writing works were not published till after his death. His work has been influential not only in psychiatry, but also in philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, literature and religious studies [1]. Jung…

INTRODUCTION Often individuals are described by their personality. Some are described as being introvert and some as extrovert, some as aggressive and some as docile. Hence it can be inferred that when we talk of personality, we mean enduring characteristics that define an individual’s behaviour. The word "personality" originates from the Latin persona, which means mask where the mask was not used as a plot device to disguise the identity of a character, but instead was a convention employed to…