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This book was published in German in 1921 and later translated into English, laying the foundation for many modern personality tests by introducing categories like sensation, intuition, thinking, and feeling.
All these classifications though, um, that we talk about now are, uh, or most of them at least are derived, uh, laid the feet of one man. One Carl Jung.
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Episode: Selects: How Personality Tests Work
This book was published in German in 1921 and later translated into English, laying the foundation for many modern personality tests by introducing categories like sensation, intuition, thinking, and feeling.
All these classifications though, um, that we talk about now are, uh, or most of them at least are derived, uh, laid the feet of one man. One Carl Jung.
Who wrote a book called, uh, Psychological Types.
So those were his four that kind of most of these modern tests are based on in some way or another.