About Griebel's Jungian Personality Test

Technical note

This test works with Netscape version (something), but not necessarily with MicroSoft Internet Explorer. Please remember to enable javascript. Note: your browser must also allow the following construct:

{script language='JavaScript' src='(filename).js'}

What it does is, it works similar to an include-statement in e.g. the C pre-processor. Neat!

My use of this statement may mean that you won't be able to run the test, if you haven't upgraded. I regret that.

Psychological functions and areas of the brain

The test measures your reliance on Jung's four psychological functions: Intuition, thinking, feeling, and perception. Some results link these to different areas of the brain:

thinking is seated in the front part of the left hemisphere

sensing is seated in the rear part of the left hemisphere

intuition is seated in the front part of the right hemisphere

feeling is seated in the rear part of the right hemisphere

I really don't know how much this can be trusted (I'd say it remains to be shown), but that is the model I have chosen for presenting the test results. For instance, your test results may look something like this:

thought : -4
always often often sometimes
sometimes sometimes sometimes sometimes
sometimes sometimes rarely rarely
never never never

intuition : 28
always always always always
always always always always
always always always always
always often often

perception: -20
sometimes sometimes sometimes rarely
rarely rarely rarely never
never never never never
never never never

feeling : 10
always always always always
often often often sometimes
sometimes sometimes sometimes sometimes
sometimes sometimes rarely

By the "scoring" that I have chosen (rather arbitrarily) you are assigned

2 points for every "always"-answer,
1 for "often",
0 for "sometimes" (or no choice),
-1 for "rarely",
and -2 for "never".

In the example above the score is therefore

28 for intuition,
10 for feeling,
-4 for thinking,
and -20 for sensing.

This would indicate that the tester is a dominant intuitive since intuition scores highest and perception lowest. Here is another example in which a person "scores"

8 for feeling,
10 for intuition
7 for sensing,
and -3 for thinking.

My guess would be that this person's dominant function would not be intuition, although that is the function that scores highest of the four, but rather feeling, since there is a marked difference between the scorings of the two rational functions, feeling and thinking.

Brain hemispheres and handedness

Personally I find it probable that the right hemisphere of the brain in fact controls feeling and intuition, while the left side controls perception (= realism) and thinking.

Since the right hemisphere of the brain controls the left side of the body, and while the left one controls the right side of the body, one might therefore conjecture that

dominant feeling and intuitive persons would be more likely to be left-handed
dominant thinking and sensing persons would be more likely to be right-handed

(Note: You should understand this as "more likely than the population on average"). Furthermore, intuitive-thinking and sensing-feeling persons should be more likely to be ambidextrous than sensing-thinking and intuitive-feeling persons, who would be expected to be exclusively right-handed/left-handed, respectively.

Or how about this version?

Since society encourages right-handedness, and since humans have a remarkable capability to adapt, one might also hypothesize that

sensing-thinking persons would be right-handed by choice
sensing-feeling and intuitive-thinking persons would mostly be right-handed due to the social pressure -- occasionally ambidextrous or left-handed
intuitive-feeling types would be left-handed by choice, or ambidextrous due to the social pressure, perhaps left-handed in rare cases.

I will see what comes out of the test-results I recieve, and publish them when I have the time to evaluate them.

Gender differences

You should be aware that women's and men's brains function differently.

First of all, a man's brain seems to be more specialized than a females. Therefore, the feeling/thinking is more clearly connected to right/left hemispheres for a man than is the case for a woman, and a woman may be able to "see" feelings, even when her left eye is blinded, while a man is usually not (that is the way you measure these things).

Second, a womans emotional center is located in the cortex, the newer part of the brain. A man's emotional center is located in the limbic system, near the flight-fight center.

These differences are attributed to the different exposure foetuses recieve towards testosteron.

The dominant of introverts

This is not really relevant to the test, but have you read my essay on the dominant of introverts?

Copyright notice

The questions

I nicked the 60 questions from a copy of the Danish Newspaper BT, 6 (8?) April 1996. Other than that, I have no idea where the questions come from, so I may be violating somebody's copyrights. Therefore I recently (November 1997) sent a letter to the reporter asking where she got the questions from. I think that's about all I can do.

The javascripts

I made those myself, and you are not allowed to steal them to use in some other test for instance. I cannot stop you of course. But I would rather if we could work together about it. Besides, if you steal my code, all your teeth will fall out of your mouth -- except one, which will give you a toothache beyond belief. You don't want that, do you?

Mike L. Griebel

mgriebel@hotmail.com

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