The second letter in the personality type acronym corresponds to the preference within the sensing-intuition dimension: “S” stands for sensing and “N” stands for intuition. The first letter in the personality type acronym corresponds to the first letter of the preference of general attitude - “E” for extraversion and “I” for introversion. Each personality type can be assigned a 4 letter acronym of the corresponding combination of preferences: Personality types, representing which of the two poles in each of the four dichotomies dominates in a person, thus defining 16 different personality types. Perceiving means that he or she is inclined to improvise and explore alternative options.Īll possible permutations of preferences in the 4 dichotomies above yield 16 different combinations, or Judging means that a person organizes all of his life events and, as a rule, sticks to his plans. The fourth criterion, Judging – Perceiving, reflects how a person implements the information he or she has processed. Feeling means that, as a rule, he or she makes a decision based on emotion, i.e. Thinking means that a person makes a decision mainly through logic. The third criterion, Thinking – Feeling, represents how a person processes information. Intuition means that a person believes mainly information he or she receives from the internal or imaginative world. Sensing means that a person mainly believes information he or she receives directly from the external world. The second criterion, Sensing – Intuition, represents the method by which someone perceives information. An extravert’s source and direction of energy expression is mainly in the external world, while an introvert has a source of energy mainly in their own internal world. The first criterion, Extraversion – Introversion, signifies the source and direction of a person’s energy expression. Isabel Briggs Myers, a researcher and practitioner of Jung’s theory, proposed to see the judging-perceiving relationship as a fourth dichotomy influencing personality type : Jung also proposed that in a person one of the four functions above is dominant – either a function of perception or a function of judging. bipolar dimensions where each pole represents a different preference). The three areas of preferences introduced by Jung are dichotomies (i.e. Their preference of one of the two functions of perception:Īnd their preference of one of the two functions of judging: Jung's theory of psychological types, people can be characterized by their preference of general attitude:
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