Type theory suggests that human behavior is not random but predictable and classifiable. What type you are says quite a bit about you -- your likes and dislikes, your likely career choices, your compatibility with others, and so on.

You have surely realized that not everyone thinks, works, or acts like you. It is easy to label co-workers or friends as lazy, crazy, or disorganized when their behavior does not match your expectations, but such name calling rarely helps us understand personality differences.

First discussed back in the 1920s by the psychologist Carl Jung, type theory suggests that human behavior is not random but predictable and classifiable. According to this theory, everyone is born predisposed to certain personality preferences.
 

Typologists have devised four pairs of preference alternatives, as stated below:

Extraverted or Introverted
Sensing or iNtuitive
Thinking or Feeling
Judging or Perceiving

Type descriptions

On the basis of your answers to the test you are placed in one of sixteen types. What type you are says quite a bit about you -- your likes and dislikes, your likely career choices, your compatibility with others, and so on.

Click here to read about your personality type.

Type watching in team situations

Having information about personality types and preferences can be quite useful. Once you understand the basic personality preferences under which people operate, as well as your own preferences, you can begin to find ways to more effectively work with opposite types or even your own type. Through type watching, you can find ways to build upon people's strengths and improve many group activities, such as time management, conflict resolution, problem solving, and team building.

Click here to read about how you can function best in team situations.

The Test

While everyone has some introversion and some extroversion, or some thinking and some feeling characteristics, the test will help you identify which alternatives you prefer to use.

• The test has 68 questions and takes approximately 10 minutes to complete.
   

• You must answer at least 50 questions in order to receive your type.
   

• Your responses should reflect "the real you", not the way you want to be, think you should be, or are asked to be by someone else.
   

• Remember there are no right or wrong answers or personality types.
   

Take the test!