The personality brokers : the strange history of Myers-Briggs and the birth of personality testing
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Emre, Merve,
Published
New York, NY : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018].
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Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages
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Asbury - Adult Non-Fiction
155.28 EMR
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LC Subjects
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
Personality tests -- History.
Self-consciousness (Awareness)
Typology (Psychology)
Bisac Subjects
Psychology / Personality.

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Published
New York, NY : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English

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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
A history of the century-old personality test conceived by a mother-and-daughter fiction-writing duo with no formal psychology training argues that their Myers-Briggs Type Indicator has been widely adopted in spite of a pervasive inability to validate its results.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Emre, M. (2018). The personality brokers: the strange history of Myers-Briggs and the birth of personality testing (First edition.). Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Emre, Merve. 2018. The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing. Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Emre, Merve. The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Emre, Merve. The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing First edition., Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018.

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