Personality type

In psychology, personality type refers to the psychological classification of individuals. In contrast to personality traits, the existence of personality types remains extremely controversial.^[1]^[2] Types are sometimes said to involve qualitative differences between people, whereas traits might be construed as quantitative differences.^[3] According to type theories, for example, introverts and extraverts are two fundamentally different categories of people. According to trait theories, introversion and extraversion are part of a continuous dimension, with many people in the middle.

^ Donnellan, M. Brent; Robins, Richard W. (2010). "Resilient, Overcontrolled, and Undercontrolled Personality Types: Issues and Controversies". Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 4 (11): 1070–1083. doi:10.1111/j.1751-9004.2010.00313.x. ISSN 1751-9004.
^ Gerlach M.; Farb B.; Revelle W.; Nunes Amaral L. A. (2018). "A robust data-driven approach identifies four personality types across four large data sets" (PDF). Nature Human Behaviour. 2 (2): 735–742. doi:10.1038/s41562-018-0419-z. PMID 31406291. S2CID 52290166. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
^ Bernstein, Penner, Clarke-Stewart, & Roy (2008). Psychology, 8th edition. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company.

[1] Donnellan, M. Brent; Robins, Richard W. (2010). "Resilient, Overcontrolled, and Undercontrolled Personality Types: Issues and Controversies". Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 4 (11): 1070–1083. doi:10.1111/j.1751-9004.2010.00313.x. ISSN 1751-9004.

[2] Gerlach M.; Farb B.; Revelle W.; Nunes Amaral L. A. (2018). "A robust data-driven approach identifies four personality types across four large data sets" (PDF). Nature Human Behaviour. 2 (2): 735–742. doi:10.1038/s41562-018-0419-z. PMID 31406291. S2CID 52290166. Retrieved 30 July 2020.

[3] Bernstein, Penner, Clarke-Stewart, & Roy (2008). Psychology, 8th edition. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company.

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