Editing Jungian cognitive functions (section)

== Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ==

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| colspan="2" | '''Myers' Dichotomies'''
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| style="background: #FFDDFE" | '''E'''xtraversion
| style="background: #FFDDFE" | '''I'''ntroversion
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| style="background: #EDDDBB" | '''S'''ensing
| style="background: #EDDDBB" | i'''N'''tuition
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| style="background: #DDDDFF" | '''T'''hinking
| style="background: #DDDDFF" | '''F'''eeling
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| style="background: #DDFFDE" | '''J'''udging
| style="background: #DDFFDE" | '''P'''erceiving
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| colspan="2" | Bold letters are used as shorthand labels
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[[Isabel Myers]], an early pioneer of psychometrics, formalized these ideas and proposed that the mixture of types in an individual's personality could be measured through responses to a personality test she devised along with her mother, [[Katharine Cook Briggs]], the [[Myers-Briggs Type Indicator]].  In this model, four "dichotomies" are defined, each labelled by two letters (one for each of the opposites in question), as shown by the emboldened letters in the table.  Individuals' personalities fall into sixteen different categories depending on which side of each dichotomy they belong to, labelled by the four applicable letters (for example, an "ENTP" type is someone whose preferences are extraversion, intuition, thinking and perceiving).<ref>{{cite book |last=Briggs-Myers |first=Isabel  |title=Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type |year=1995 |pages=8–9 |isbn=978-0891060741}}</ref>