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The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
The Personality Brokers The Strange History of MyersBriggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
Author: Merve Emre
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 beyond — The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It is used regularly by Fortune ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780385541909
ISBN-10: 0385541902
Publication Date: 9/11/2018
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Doubleday
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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The introduction to this book put me on guard that the author approached her subject with a negative attitude from the start. She opines there that personality tests per se "annihilate individuality" and oppress people in the workplace. I found this kind of shocking, but I guess she sees herself more as a cultural critic than a reporter.


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