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This test will give you your Big Five personality scores in one minute or less.

This test measures your attitude toward evolutionary psychology.

6-minute sadism test, based on the work of Dr. Rachel Plouffe, Ph.D.

Gender Coordinates Test to determine how people are likely to view your gender identity.

Liberalism Test, based on the work of Dr. Robert McCrae, Ph.D. and Dr. Paul Costa Jr., Ph.D.

Defense Style Test, measuring defense mechanisms, coping styles, and automatic self-esteem protective reactions in an individual.

INTJ or INFP Test at IDR Labs: Take the test and find out whether you are INTJ or INFP.

This test will give you your scores on the socially 'dark' traits of Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy.

Test based on real psychometric items, which will determine your Patronus from the Harry Potter franchise.

Test to determine which Hunger Games character you would be.

This test uses genuine psychometric items to ascertain which X-Men character your personality most closely resembles.

This test uses genuine psychometric items to determine which Downton Abbey character your personality most closely resembles.

ENTP or INTJ Test at IDR Labs: Take the test and find out whether you are ENTP or INTJ.

Sonic Syndrome Test

INFP or ISFJ Test at IDR Labs: Take the test and find out whether you are INFP or ISFJ.

Interview by Ryan Smith Today we have something out of the ordinary for our readers: an interview with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is an American philosopher and novelist. She has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University and has taught at multiple universities, including Columbia and Rutgers. She has received numerous awards for her...

“No one before Plato [nor anyone] since has managed the extremely difficult art of dramatic debate on philosophic topics with such … fascinating art, aided by the union of dialectical subtlety with mystical yearnings, a subtlety which seems to give a hope to mysticism, and a warrant to transcendentalism.” – G.H. Lewes: Aristotle, Smith, Elder...

By Eva Gregersen One of the current trends in Jungian typology is “face reading,” that is, the idea that people’s types can be determined by either their physical appearance or their eye movements or facial gestures. At CelebrityTypes, we have been roundly critical of “face reading” (here, here, here, and here). However, we have perhaps...

By Eva Gregersen “It is chiefly extraverts who resent being called extraverts, as if it were a derogatory designation. I even know of a case where a famous extravert, having been called an extravert, challenged his opponent to a duel!” – C.G. Jung in a personal letter to R.L. Kroon While it is a fairly...

By Ryan Smith and Sigurd Arild This article requires Greek characters to be displayed on your screen. In 2012, the classical Jungian and former professor of political science V.W. Odajnyk published the book Archetype and Character (see our review here). In this book, Odajnyk proposes a new typology of four basic archetypes: Power, Love, Spirit,...

By Jesse Gerroir Within the field of Jungian typology, Feeling and emotion are often thought to be same thing. While the best literature is careful not to confuse the two, I find that a lot of beginners, and even those more read, tend to be confused about what exactly is meant by Feeling within the...

“With Aristotle … a new cultural type was born, a model of the wise man different from that of his predecessors, and especially different from the sages.” – Carlo Natali: Aristotle: His Life and School, Princeton University Press 2013 ed., p. 2 By Ryan Smith To our knowledge, we were the first to assess Aristotle...

Continued from Why Freud is ISTJ, Part 1. Written by the CT Admins in reply to the comment by AndrahilAdrian here. We are glad to see some elaboration for the argument that Freud is INTJ. It is clear that AndrahilAdrian has a very strong intuition that Freud is INTJ, and as we said, we used...

Comment: Freud has got to be an INTJ. It seems unlikely that an Si-dom would have invented a field as abstract, personalized, and disconnected from reality as psychoanalysis. Almost every quote on your infographic could just as easily apply to an INTJ. Freud didn’t use a data-oriented approach; he generalized from his own and his patients’...

1. Study Personality Broadly Personality is an unsolved puzzle, and Jungian typology is but a tiny piece of that puzzle. It says something about the arrangement of the four functions and their orientations. All sorts of other factors that pertain to the personality are, in effect, irrelevant to the system.  Even if you know everything...

Sensation If you have studied Jungian typology to any extent, you have no doubt noticed that the field is marred by a bias in favor of the intuitive types. Sensation types are commonly denigrated and abused, and the argument is often advanced that “so-and-so can’t be an S type because he is smart/ ingenious/ academic,”...

Here at the site we are engaged in a very special kind of research, which could perhaps be called psycho-biography, i.e. trying to find some unity between a person’s cognition and a person’s life. The genre is by no means a new one, but what distinguishes it is that there is so much bad material...

James Graham Johnston Jung’s Compass of Psychological Types MSE Press 2011 An overlooked and unusual contribution to the study of Jungian typology was released in 2011 under the name of Jung’s Compass of Psychological Types. It was written by James Graham Johnston, who is apparently a Jungian before he is a typologist (rather than a...

When Jung first put forth his theory of the types, Jungian typology became the state of the art of its day. Since then, other schools of personality studies have emerged, and now modern science seems to be converging on the idea of the trait theory and the Big Five personality traits. As such, with regards...

Carl Gustav Jung & Hans Schmid-Guisan The Question of Psychological Types Princeton University Press 2013 It has long been known that some years prior to the publication of Psychological Types, Jung carried on a correspondence with his colleague and former analysand, Hans Schmid-Guisan, dealing exactly with the question of psychological types. Already around the time...