MBTI® Talk Blog

CPP Releases “Indicators of Stress for Top Professions“

How does stress manifest in the workplace? For most people, experiencing severe stress renders them temporarily unable to operate from the familiar aspects of their personality with which…

I hope you have found reading about the MBTI® Step II™ facet midzone results interesting. Thanks to the work of Naomi Quenk and Jean Kummerow, we have new and practical ways to apply these results for each of the facets.…

I would like to thank the world renowned, MBTI® expert, Dr. Naomi Quenk for contributing the most recent blog posts to www.mbtitalk.com! It was so nice of Naomi to take the time to share her thoughts with us. I’m…

By Naomi L. Quenk, Ph.D.

The best way to keep type concepts alive is to get people to think in whole type terms. The dynamic interactions of the preferences—the dominant, auxiliary, tertiary, and inferior functions that comprise a…

By Naomi L. Quenk, Ph.D.

Myers and Briggs were working on developing the Type Indicator beginning in the 1940’s, but it was not published until 1962. Educational Testing Service (ETS), with whom Myers had been working for several…

By Naomi L. Quenk, Ph.D.

The most obvious and compelling reason for the popularity of the MBTI instrument is that the personality types identified and described by the Jung-Myers theory are real. Their reality is affirmed by the…

It’s important to remember that the MBTI® Step II™ facets do not add up to “equal” their respective dichotomy (E-I, S-N, T-F, or J-P). Practitioners sometimes get confused when a client has three or more facet results on the opposite…