Personality Tests

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It is used regularly by Fortune 500 companies, universities, hospitals, churches, and the military. Its language of personality types - extraversion and introversion, sensing and intuiting, thinking and feeling, judging and perceiving - has inspired television shows, Online dating platforms, and Buzzfeed quizzes. Yet despite the test's widespread adoption, experts in the field of psychometric testing, a $2 billion industry, have struggled to validate its results - no less account for its success.

A centuries-old psychological system with roots in sacred tradition, the Enneagram can be an invaluable guide in your journey toward self-understanding and self-development. In this book, Stanford University Medical School clinical professor of psychiatry David Daniels and counseling psychologist Virginia Price offer the only scientifically developed Enneagram test based upon extensive research combined with a self-discovery and personal-development guide.

The concept of 16 different personality types originates from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a psychological framework developed by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers. This system is based on Carl Jung's theory of psychological types and aims to categorize individuals into 16 distinct personality types. Each type is represented by a four-letter code, derived from the preferences across four dichotomies: Extraversion (E) vs. Introversion (I), Sensing (S) vs. Intuition (N), Thinking (T) vs. Feeling (F), and Judging (J) vs. Perceiving (P). Extraversion and ...

Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder is a compassionate and informative guide to understanding this profoundly unsettling - and widely misunderstood - mental illness, believed to affect approximately six percent of the general population. Rather than viewing people with BPD as manipulative opponents in a bitter struggle, or pitying them as emotional invalids, Valerie Porr cites cutting-edge science to show that BPD is a true neurobiological disorder and not, as many come to believe, a character flaw or the result of bad parenting.

Psychologist and best-selling author Benjamin Hardy, PhD, debunks the pervasive myths about personality that prevent us from learning - and provides bold strategies for personal transformation.

Are you struggling with emotional distance in your relationship? Do you feel like every time you reach out, your partner pulls away? Is loving someone who fears closeness leaving you feeling alone and misunderstood? Loving someone with a dismissive avoidant attachment style can feel like a constant push and pull. One moment, you're close enough to feel their heart; the next, they're far away, hidden behind walls of independence. You might wonder why they withdraw when things get too close or why they shut down just when you feel a breakthrough. It’s like trying to warm your hands over a ...

A new way to consider patterns of personality, with the combined application of neurobiology and traditional wisdom, Personality and Wholeness in Psychotherapy applies the perspective of interpersonal neurobiology to a traditional wisdom framework widely known as the Enneagram of Personality. This framework describes a lifespan developmental personality model of nine distinct, key strategies that people use to make sense of and cope with their experiences and interactions with the world. These strategies can be understood as nine Patterns of Developmental Pathways, or PDPs.

Is there hope for spouses of BPD? Feeling overwhelmed by conflicting information? It’s time for insight from others who have already faced borderline personality disorder before you. And wouldn’t you love a book written in non-clinical, compassionate language by someone who has been in your shoes rather than a clinician writing to impress other clinicians? Married to Borderline Personality Disorder is the first book entirely centered around unfiltered accounts from spouses of BPD. To add even more perspective, you’ll also hear from those with BPD. You’ll find yourself shouting out ...

Written by Daniel Nettle - author of the popular book Happiness - this brief volume takes the listener on an exhilarating tour of what modern science can tell us about human personality. Revealing that our personalities stem from our biological makeup, Nettle looks at the latest findings from genetics and brain science, and considers the evolutionary origins and consequences of different personalities. The heart of the book sheds light on the "big five": Extraversion, Neuroticism, Conscientious, Agreeableness, and Openness.

Author Thomas Erikson explains that there are four key behavior types that define how we interact with and perceive the people around us. Understanding someone’s pattern of behavior is the key to successful communication. Erikson breaks down the four kinds of behavior types - Reds who are dominant and commanding, Yellows who are social and optimistic, Greens who are laid-back and friendly, and Blues who are analytical and precise - and explains how to identify and interact with each type of person.

Patching the fist-sized hole in the wall… … and sweeping up broken glass. Just another day in your marriage to borderline personality disorder. Maybe your spouse has never been officially diagnosed. Maybe you think the problems are mostly your fault. You’re beginning to wonder if every day doesn’t have to be a raging battlefield. You are not the first husband to face this. You can find explanations to her logic-defying actions. There is finally a book written by a husband of a “Borderline” for the husbands of Borderlines in non-clinical, empathetic, “real-life” language. ...

In StrengthsFinder 2.0, Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular assessment, language of 34 themes, and much more. While you can listen to this book in one sitting, you'll use it as a reference for decades.

Do you really want to meet you? Do you want to know what kind of personality you are and how you can benefit enormously from knowing your true identity? Well, then read on! If you do not understand your true identity you will never be happy! Knowing your weak and strong points and your personality type can give you enormous help on most people who think they know everything, but in the end they are lost and very unhappy. Only by discovering yourself will you be much more successful and, above all, much happier! This is why we made this book.

Sharon Birkman wrote Creatures of Contact: Why You Need More Than a Personality Test to arm you with a better, more accurate understanding of yourself and those around you so you can have the opportunity to become a stronger leader, a more effective coworker, and a happier spouse or parent.

Mental Status Examination for Personality Disorders explains how to perform and interpret a validated DSM-5 and ICD-10 mental status examination specifically designed for patients with personality disorders and demonstrated in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Research, Biological Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services, and Psychological Reports. Mental Status Examination for Personality Disorders then introduces you to 32 challenging, real-life patients who were given the same mental status examination. They tell you their stories as if you were their personal clinician and you ...

Enneagram Test is not a strict rulebook that dictates your decisions for you. Instead, the test and its results offer you insight into your personality, which better educates you to make your own decisions. So, whether you’re someone who enjoys the casual personality test, or you feel as though something like the enneagram test was meant for you on your path to better understanding yourself, this audiobook will help you!

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Hans Eysenck A Gateway to His Life, Theories, and Legacy Few psychologists have influenced as many fields—or courted as much controversy—as Hans Eysenck. One of the most prolific figures in the history of psychology, Eysenck reshaped our understanding of personality, championed evidence-based therapy, and brought scientific rigour to the forefront of psychological research. In this concise yet powerful volume, Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Hans Eysenck distils his life’s work into clear, engaging chapters. From his early defiance of Nazi ideology and his ...

The Enneagram of Personality is a model dealing with collections of human traits, presented as nine different character types. This audiobook will help you determine who you are as a person and show you what others like about you, as well as how you should act around others to be more enjoyable to be with. The audiobook will show you how you more easily can understand others and can therefore help build stronger relationships with friends, family, or your partner.

Do you ever have the feeling that your friend isn’t telling you the whole story? Or that your colleague’s answer doesn’t quite add up? Whether in your personal or social life, professional life, or on the news or media, sorting the lies from the truth can be exhausting and make you feel constantly on edge. In the latest installment of the Surrounded by Idiots series, Thomas Erikson shows you how to identify and deal with the liars in your life.

Are there people in your life that leave you feeling drained, depleted, and just exhausted? They demand limitless time, emotional support, attention, or affirmation; you dread interacting with them but don’t know how to change the dynamic. You’ve just encountered a real-life vampire. Energy vampires can be people, situations, or even your own mindset, but in Surrounded by Energy Vampires, internationally best-selling author Thomas Erikson identifies the different types of energy vampires and offers practical tools, fun self-assessments, and relatable stories to help you combat them.