“When it comes to accuracy,” organizational psychologist Adam Grant has written, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is better than a horoscope but less reliable than a heart monitor. Fashioned in the ...

The world’s most widely-used personality test isn’t relevant for much of the world. A lot of contemporary psychology research is based on the assumption that there are five basic dimensions of ...

Merve Emre’s new book titled The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing is a gripping mix of history and opinion relevant to anyone who has ever ...

In the 1950s I was looked at as an oddball for introducing a psychological assessment for healthy, functional individuals in the workplace. Unlike today, when almost everyone has taken some type of ...

Australian organisations rely heavily on personality tests when hiring candidates. But experts warned employers to be careful ...

As businesses look to improve their hiring success, pre-hire personality tests have garnered some notoriety. While experience and credentials are critical to performance, most employers have ...

When I was asked to blog for Psychology Today, I was told that this was because I had established some notoriety for my online personality test, posted at personal.psu.edu. "All fine and good," I said ...

Researchers have developed the first scientifically validated "personality test" framework for popular AI chatbots, and have ...

Can your company improve employee retention and reduce turnover by using personality assessments? Management training specialist Dan Monteiro thinks so. Mr. Monteiro has been helping to shortlist ...