The personality brokers : (Record no. 44522)

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control field on1056700396
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control field 20200622112647.0
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fixed length control field 180611s2018 nyua e b 001 0 eng
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2018011977
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780385541909 (hardback)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0385541902 (hardback)
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System control number (OCoLC)1056700396
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Language of cataloging eng
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050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number BF698.8.M94
Item number E56 2018
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 155.2/8
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Emre, Merve,
Relator term author.
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The personality brokers :
Remainder of title the strange history of Myers-Briggs and the birth of personality testing /
Statement of responsibility, etc Merve Emre.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement First edition.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxii, 307 pages :
Other physical details illustrations ;
Dimensions 25 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-292) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note The cosmic laboratory of baby training -- Women's work -- Meet yourself -- An unbroken series of successful gestures -- Desperate amateurs -- The science of man -- The personality is political -- Sheep and buck -- A perfect spy -- People's capitalism -- The house party approach to testing -- That horrible woman -- The synchronicity of life and death -- One in a million.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc An unprecedented history of the personality test that has achieved cult-like devotion, devised a century ago by a pair of homemakers and found today in boardrooms, classrooms, and beyond. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It has been harnessed by Fortune 100 companies, universities, hospitals, churches, and the military. Its language--of extraversion vs. introversion, thinking vs. feeling--has inspired online dating platforms and Buzzfeed quizzes alike. And yet despite the test's widespread adoption, experts in the field of psychometric testing, a $500 million industry, struggle to account for its success--no less to validate its results. How did the Myers-Briggs test insinuate itself into our jobs, our relationships, our Internet, our lives? First conceived in the 1920s by the mother-daughter team of Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers, a pair of aspiring novelists and devoted homemakers, the Myers-Briggs was designed to bring the gospel of Carl Jung to the masses. But it would take on a life of its own, reaching from the smoke-filled boardrooms of mid-century New York to Berkeley, California, where it was honed against some of the twentieth century's greatest creative minds. It would travel across the world to London, Zurich, Cape Town, Melbourne, and Tokyo; to elementary schools, nunneries, wellness retreats, and the closed-door corporate training sessions of today. Drawing from original reporting and never-before-published documents, The Personality Brokers examines nothing less than the definition of the self--our attempts to grasp, categorise, and quantify our personalities. Surprising and absorbing, the book, like the test at its heart, considers the timeless question: What makes you you.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Personality tests
General subdivision History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Self-consciousness (Awareness)
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Typology (Psychology)
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a .b34991839
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    Dewey Decimal Classification The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing     Reformational Study Centre Reformational Study Centre General library 06/22/2020   155.28 06/22/2020 06/22/2020 E-Book