The 16 Personality Types

The four temperaments have long been understood as the primary division of personality types. But the works of Jung, Myers-Briggs, and Keirsey brought further classification to temperaments with sixteen different personality combinations.

It’s easy to see yourself in one of four temperaments, but if you’re searching for one of sixteen types that best explains your personality, it’s often helpful to take a test. Below you’ll find information and resources on the sixteen personality types, as well as tests and explanations to help you discover and understand the personality types of you and your friends.

• An Overview of the Myers-Briggs Type Instrument
• What I Learned from the MBTI Alphabet Soup
• Know Thyself
• Breaking Out of the Personality Type Box
• Thoughts from an ISTJ on the Introverted Sensing Type
• The Profile of an ESFJ
• 16 Fiction Book Characters’ Myers-Briggs Personality Types

Short Tests:

• PersonalityType.com
• Personality Desk
• Your Personality Test
• BLOGinality

Long Tests:

• Prelude Character Analysis Questionnaire
• 16Personalities
• HumanMetrics: Jung Typology Test
• The Keirsey Temperament Sorter (KTS-II)
• Personality Test
• Socionics Type Assistant
• Mental Muscle Diagram Indicator
• My Personality (free account required)

Summaries:

• A Short Summary of the Sixteen Personality Types
• Discover Your Personality Type
• High-Level Description of the Sixteen Personality Types
• BLOGinality: weblogger personality
• The 16 Types at a Glance
• The 16 MBTI^® Types
• Myers Briggs Personality Types in a Nutshell

Detailed Descriptions:

• Prelude Character Analysis
• The Personality Type Portraits
• TypeLogic
• Know Your Type
• Personality Desk
• Personality Max
• 16Personalities Type Descriptions
• The 16 Types and Their 8 Functions
• MyPersonality – and the famous people who share it!

Learn More:

• Keirsey Temperament and Character Web Site
• Myers-Briggs Personality Typing
• Cracking the Type Code
• The 16 Personality Types: Chart of Equivalents

Books on Personality Types

• Type Talk by Otto Kroeger and Janet M. Thuesen
• Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates