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Katherine Myers was developing a theory of personality of her own when she read Jung. She found what he was suggesting clarified her thinking, so she adopted his theories into her framework. During the 1940's, she and her daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers, set out to design a rigorous and reliable instrument that would test Jung's theory. They developed a tool to identify an individual's preferences; this was aimed towards greater understanding and constructive use of the differences between people.
C.G. Jung's theory of psychological types suggests that human behaviour is not random, but is the result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning. These differences are centred on how people prefer to use their minds, specifically how they choose to perceive and make judgements. He identified four functions at work: perception via sensation or intuition, judgement via thinking or feeling.
The MBTI includes four types of distinct preferences:
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