Book Reviews Books Ideas The Myers-Briggs Test Was Created to Identify a Ruling Class and Keep Workers Productive and Compliant. So Why Is It Still So Popular? In her most recent book, Merve Emre examines our obsession with ourselves. Paul W. Gleason
Dispatches Issue #64: May 2018 Magazine Premium Previous Issues Primer Research Gone Wild Don’t Take Personality Tests Personally Rigorous study of the Fisher Temperament Inventory is still in its infancy—much like our understanding of the relationship between neurobiology and personality to begin with. Elena Gooray
Social Justice Your Opinion of You A brief history of personality tests—and how they lend themselves to cultish misdirection. Evan Kindley