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The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing

Merve Emre

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Dec 07, 2018 Navi rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: libby-overdrive, biography, library, nonfiction, everand, audiobook, science, history-of-science, psychology, history

This was an enjoyable read for me. The author provides an interesting insight into the early beginnings of the Myers-Briggs test and the worldwide effect it has had ever since. I was surprised to find that I enjoyed the parts written about Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers more so than the test itself. These ladies were trailblazers at a time when the identity of women were primarily focused on their domestic life. I listened to the audiobook which I felt was narrated perfectly. The book ...more

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Feb 23, 2021 CatReader rated it liked it

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Interesting concept, but disappointing execution. I learned a lot more about the lives of Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers than I cared to know -- their portrayal was not particularly flattering, and the book length could have been halved without losing anything of value if it this part of the book wasn't so labored. The final part of the book, which focused on how the MBTI and other personality inventories were utilized and perceived in the 20th century and beyond, was interesting conte ...more

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