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Permalink Reply by Kevin Griffith on October 23, 2007 at 8:58am

Here's a link to the section of Psychology Today's website that deals with personality in all its manifestations. There's a lot of good information there. Take a look!

http://www.psychologytoday.com/topics/personality.html



(Amy, my brother is a year older than I am. Is that why I'm more stoopider?)

Permalink Reply by Beth Avery on October 25, 2007 at 6:14pm

Our department is going to do the "true colors" workshop in January. While it's based on the MBTI, it seems some people prefer it's simplicity.

Permalink Reply by Kevin Griffith on October 29, 2007 at 2:27pm

Birth order actually made it to the cover of Time magazine! Take a look.


http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1672715,00.html

Permalink Reply by Kevin Griffith on December 6, 2007 at 9:39am

Here's another interesting article on birth order. There are good points made for both sides of the argument.


http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article3172307.ece


(Thanks again, Lisa!)

Permalink Reply by Gail Lancaster on December 28, 2007 at 4:44pm

My siblings have negated the birth order issue by disavowing our familial ties. It doesn't matter what they say, ! was not left on the doorstep by gypsies

Permalink Reply by Kevin Griffith on January 10, 2008 at 1:41pm

Gail,

Any chance you could be the Queen of the Gypsies? You might want to work that angle. Tell your family that you won’t hold all of those years of mistreatment they subjected you to against them once you’re officially crowned!

Permalink Reply by Gail Lancaster on January 18, 2008 at 12:44pm

Wow, I never thought of that angle, thanks! Now I just have to make my crown, spectre, robe, and other coronation gear.

Permalink Reply by Kevin Griffith on January 10, 2008 at 1:45pm

If you’re looking for a counterpoint to all of this personality type stuff, you might want to read The Cult of Personality Testing: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves by Annie Murphy Paul. The author offers plenty of reasons why we should keep our eyes and minds open if we try to reduce something as staggeringly complex as a human personality into a set of simplistic categories.

Permalink Reply by Gail Lancaster on January 18, 2008 at 12:50pm

I will look into that. I've worked for several libraries that subscribe to the idea of the immutable personality. Admin seems to think that if we all just could understand which quadrant each of us are in or what combination of quirks are in play then we would get along. In my experience, attending thesse bonding workshops only makes people more angry.

I heard a news story this morning about a recent experiment suggesting that we crave aggression and our brains are wired to seek violent behavior oulets. Do we really need a study to prove this?