Jung’s Personality Theory Quantified (eBook)

Dr Douglass J. Wilde is Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering (Design) and Chemical Engineering at Stanford University.

Preface 6
Contents 9
Introduction: Typology at a Crossroad 14
1.1 History and Preview 15
1.2 Jung’s Qualitative Personality Theory 15
1.3 Measurement with the MBTI 16
1.4 Type Dynamics 16
1.5 The Eight Function(-Attitude) Model 16
1.6 Teamology 17
1.7 Type Dynamics Challenged 17
1.8 Preview of New Developments 18
Jung’s Qualitative Personality Theory 20
2.1 Introduction 20
2.2 Three Axiomatic Postulates 20
2.3 Types and Cognitive Modes (Function-Attitudes) 23
2.4 Questionnaires 24
2.5 Concluding Summary 28
2.6 Chapter 2 Exercises 29
Quantification 30
3.1 Introduction 30
3.2 Numerical Data 31
3.3 Normalization 32
3.4 Clarity and Significance 32
3.5 Non-Numerical Semi-Quantification 33
3.6 Concluding Summary 34
3.7 Exercises 34
Decoupling the Attitudes 35
4.1 Introduction 35
4.2 Attitude Transformation 37
4.3 Platonic Ideal Attitudes 39
4.4 Mean Sum and Mean Difference 43
4.5 Unpacking 43
4.6 Graphical Interpretation 45
4.7 Doubleversion 45
4.8 Recoupling Inversion 46
4.9 Naming and Describing the Decoupled Attitudes 46
4.10 Decoupled Representation 48
4.11 Concluding Summary 48
4.12 Exercises 49
Cognitive Mode Determination 50
5.1 Introduction 50
5.2 Cognitive Mode Variables 51
5.3 Data Combination 51
5.4 Graphic Representation 55
5.5 Cognitive Mode Descriptions 57
5.6 Normalized Modal Score Representation 57
5.7 Abstraction 58
5.8 Inversion, Repacking and Recoupling 60
5.9 Concluding Summary 62
5.10 Exercises 63
Dominant, Auxiliary, Principal, and Subsidiary Modes 64
6.1 Introduction 64
6.2 Dominant and Auxiliary Modes 65
6.3 Subsidiary Modes 65
6.4 Slightness and Rounding 66
6.5 A Platonic Ideal MBTI Type (Example 4) 68
6.6 Ambiguous Dominance (Example 5) 69
6.7 Recoupling 71
6.8 Concluding Summary 72
6.9 Exercises 72
Partially Fixing Type Dynamics 74
7.1 Introduction 74
7.2 Homage to Isabel Myers, MBTI Pioneer 76
7.3 Categorical, Comparative and Computational Reasoning 76
7.4 Other Type Dynamics Rules 81
7.5 The Type Table 84
7.6 Dominant and Auxiliary Opposite Modes 87
7.7 Preference Multidimensionality 89
7.8 Concluding Summary 90
7.9 Exercises 90
Shadow Archetypes 92
8.1 Introduction 92
8.2 A Bimodal Version of Beebe’s Archetype Model 93
8.3 Multimodal Archetypology 95
8.4 Multimodal Examples 99
8.5 Interpersonal Applications 100
8.6 Concluding Summary 102
8.7 Exercises 103
Application to Teamology 105
9.1 Introduction 105
9.2 The Procedure 106
9.3 Concluding Summary 112
9.4 Exercises 113
Extensions and Implications 114
10.1 Introduction 114
10.2 Extension of Jung’s Personality Theory 114
10.3 Implications for Other Personality Theories 115
10.4 A Direct Mode Instrument 117
10.5 Individuation and Non-differential Scoring 118
10.6 Final Summary 119
10.7 Exercises 119
References 120
Index 122