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Fear of Cockroaches Test, based on a scientific questionnaire by researchers Jeff Szymanski and William O' Donohue.

Autism Test, measuring personality features related to autism in individuals.

Empire Provinces Test: Which province in the Empire of Man from Warhammer Fantasy should you play?

Empathy Test measuresing what kind of empath you are.

Alpha Male Test – Do You Have the Alpha Mindset?

Annoying Person Test, measuring whether you are an annoying person.

Parks and Recreation Character Test – which Parks and Recreation character are you?

Cultural Dimensions Test, measuring dimensions of cultural features.

Testing the extent of your Donald-ness.

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

Emophilia Scale – How Quickly Do You Fall in Love?

This free 3-scale moral foundations test will allow you to obtain your scores according to the Moral Foundations framework created by social scientists.

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

Introvert-Extrovert Spectrum Test

Biden or Trump test, based on Moral Foundations theory.

By Ryan Smith The Indian philosopher Shankara’s (788 – 820 CE) criticism of Yogacara, the ‘mind only’ school of idealist Buddhism, may warrant closer attention. Yogacara as Ni As we have previously covered on the site, the third phase of Buddhist philosophy, the idealist Yogacara school, posited that only consciousness is real. What appears to us as objects...

Malin Gustavsson is a contributing guest writer for CelebrityTypes. In this article, Gustavsson draws on her personal experience as a therapist to share some tips on how to be an effective counselor. As with other guest writers on the site (such as Michael Pierce and Jesse Gerroir) we do not necessarily agree with Gustavsson on every point...

By Ryan Smith The spiritual history of India can be divided into two main strands:  The Atman (self) and the Anatman (no-self) traditions. The self-doctrine draws its inspiration from the spiritual visions of the Vedic seers, as these were handed down to us in the Upanishads (ca. 1000 – 500 BCE) while the no-self doctrine...

By Eva Gregersen People often ask if it’s possible to change one’s type. The answer to this question is not as straightforward as it would appear. First, a lot of people are introduced to type by a psychologist or coach who tells them that type is inborn and cannot be changed. This is also what...

In his early work, Jung spent a great deal of energy exploring the nature of introversion and extroversion “in themselves,” i.e. as pure E and I. Ironically, though, most contemporary psychodynamic interpretations of Jung’s typology *do not* focus on E and I in this manner, but regard them as properties of the cognitive functions.  In...

“Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been … the confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir…” – Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil §6 By Jesse Gerroir The inferior function remains, even when integrated, largely unconscious. We never become fully aware of its...

“Appellation ceases with the absence of the objects of thought: The absolute as the essence of all things is not born, nor does it cease to be.” – Nagarjuna: Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way, XVIII.7 By Ryan Smith The Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna (ca. 150-250 CE) is commonly held to be the most important philosopher in...

Michael Pierce is a contributing guest writer for CelebrityTypes. In this article, Pierce reaches back to Jung to explain the Jungian conception of extroversion and introversion. As with other guest writers on the site (such as Jesse Gerroir) we do not necessarily agree with Pierce on every point, but the general tenor of Pierce’s exposition...

By Sigurd Arild, Ryan Smith, and Eva Gregersen Regular readers know the drill by now: We have no affiliation with the MBTI; we just don’t like seeing lazy and uninformed critiques misguiding the public. The latest example of such a critique is the journalist Joseph Stromberg’s article: Why the Myers-Briggs test is totally meaningless, as featured in...

By Guilherme Varela and Ryan Smith Disclaimer: This article relies on a methodology that we usually caution our readers against, namely confounding mental processes (functions) with mental contents (specific positions and beliefs). Therefore, if someone were to protest the method employed here, we would immediately have to grant them the point. Nevertheless, in the absence...

In Part 1 of this essay, we looked into some of the philosophical reasons why Freud might have found himself attracted to Empedocles. Here in Part 2, we will focus on the psychological reasons instead. 3: Personal Attraction Freud felt a sense of personal admiration for Empedocles. In my opinion, Freud’s admiration for Empedocles was not just a...

List written by David Austin, edited and used with permission. Commentary by Ryan Smith. The scores and scores of fake Ni types. (“I sometimes know things. Therefore INTJ.”) Armchair “experts” who peddle wild home-grown definitions about their type and functions while having no real knowledge. (“Ni is very objective.”) The extreme pushback from aforementioned “experts” when...

By Ryan Smith and Eva Gregersen Business Insider seems to be developing a penchant for publishing poorly researched articles about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Last September it was Professor Adam Grant’s critique of the MBTI which quoted unfaithfully from one of the scientific studies that it used as the basis of its argument. Now it is reporter Drake Baer who...

By Ryan Smith “The true and positive meaning of the antinomies in Kant is this: That every actual thing involves a co-existence of opposed elements. Consequently to know, or in other words, to comprehend an object is equivalent to being conscious of it as a concrete unitary of opposed determinations.” – Hegel: Encyclopaedia of the...

By Ryan Smith “No one can foresee in what guise the nucleus of truth contained in the theory of Empedocles will present itself to later understanding.” – Freud: Analysis Terminable and Interminable §6 Empedocles (ca. 490-430 BCE) is the earliest Western thinker to whom Freud ever referred.[1] Just as Heraclitus was Jung’s favorite pre-Socratic, so...