122: The Science of Myers Briggs Personality Tests
08/16/21 • 73 min
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Myers Briggs types are scientific evaluation of your personality... or at least that’s how they’re sold. Turns out that they might be barely more scientific than your horoscope.
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What is MBTI?
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References & Further Reading
What is MBTI?
- https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
- https://www.mbtionline.com/en-US/Articles/2017/July/What-do-the-letters-in-the-Myers-Briggs-test-stand-for
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK554596/
- https://www.16personalities.com/country-profiles/global/world
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NQqSnkI32A
- https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/isabel-briggs-myers.htm
- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06614-
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carl-Jung/Character-of-his-psychotherapy
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264783017_Isabel_Briggs_Myers_Psychological_Type_and_the_Spirit_of_CG_Jung
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkQiYiXxmjg
- https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/carl-jung/
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26851600/
- https://www.livescience.com/amp/65513-does-myers-briggs-personality-test-work.html
- https://jobtalk.indiana.edu/HRMWebsite/hrm/articles/develop/mbti.pdf
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.3102/00346543063004467
- vox.com/platform/amp/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personality-test-meaningless
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/014920639602200103
- https://amp.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2013/mar/19/myers-briggs-test-unscientific
- https://pages.uoregon.edu/sanjay/bigfive.html
Myers Briggs types are scientific evaluation of your personality... or at least that’s how they’re sold. Turns out that they might be barely more scientific than your horoscope.
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References & Further Reading
What is MBTI?
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References & Further Reading
What is MBTI?
- https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
- https://www.mbtionline.com/en-US/Articles/2017/July/What-do-the-letters-in-the-Myers-Briggs-test-stand-for
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK554596/
- https://www.16personalities.com/country-profiles/global/world
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NQqSnkI32A
- https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/isabel-briggs-myers.htm
- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06614-
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carl-Jung/Character-of-his-psychotherapy
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264783017_Isabel_Briggs_Myers_Psychological_Type_and_the_Spirit_of_CG_Jung
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkQiYiXxmjg
- https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/carl-jung/
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26851600/
- https://www.livescience.com/amp/65513-does-myers-briggs-personality-test-work.html
- https://jobtalk.indiana.edu/HRMWebsite/hrm/articles/develop/mbti.pdf
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.3102/00346543063004467
- vox.com/platform/amp/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personality-test-meaningless
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/014920639602200103
- https://amp.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2013/mar/19/myers-briggs-test-unscientific
- https://pages.uoregon.edu/sanjay/bigfive.html
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121: The Uncanny Valley: Science of Creepy Robots
Robots are becoming more and more human-like, but something weird happens when things become too human without quite making it all the way - we start to hate them... This is the uncanny valley, and you’ll find a lot of things in it.
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- https://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/2005/RBC05-007.pdf
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.14184
- https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-uncanny-valley
- https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/507812
- https://www.jneurosci.org/content/39/33/6555
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-uncanny-valley-human-look-alikes-put-us-on-edge/
- https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scientists-identify-possible-source-of-the-uncanny-valley-in-the-brain
- https://www.jneurosci.org/content/39/33/6555
- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4557950
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6211702/
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6556781/
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4392592/
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.14184
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25762967/
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32526760/
- https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20130901-is-the-uncanny-valley-reallist_works&sortby=pubdate
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123: The Science of Sleepy Hallucinations
Ever seen or heard something as you were half asleep and woken up to realise it wasn’t there? Hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations are actually fairly common!
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References & Further Reading
Hallucinations
- https://www.britannica.com/science/hallucination/Chemical-factors
- https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/feelings-symptoms-behaviours/feelings-and-symptoms/hallucinations-hearing-voices/
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4988750/
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/14313158_Hypnagogic_and_Hypnopompic_Hallucinations_Pathological_Phenomena
- https://www.scielo.br/j/anp/a/C9cqbVby3nqWJrKYLvBngkk/?lang=en
- https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/71170
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-23739-8_8
- https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(18)30138-X/fulltext
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RvBvYrklXM
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-87318-4
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/hypnagogia
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012375038900008X
- https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6638
- https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20120522-suffer-from-sleep-shudders
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9781437703269000282
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11030656/
- https://science.sciencemag.org/content/290/5490/350?hwshib2=authn%3A1628867368%3A20210812%253Aed134caf-83e8-4fd7-9799-0ea1e0c31419%3A0%3A0%3A0%3AyeqVACDJVH2x2dHe%2FPUbZw%3D%3D
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK560817/
- https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/narcolepsy/
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