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Type

Jung's typological model regards psychological type as similar to left or right handedness: people are either born with, or develop, certain preferred ways of perceiving and deciding. The MBTI sorts some of these psychological differences into four opposite pairs (Extroversion or Introversion, Sensing or Intuition, Thinking or Feeling, and Judging or Perceiving), or "dichotomies", with a resulting 16 possible psychological types.

Extroversion is associated with how people direct their energy when they are interacting with people, things situations, and the outside world. While introversion is associated with how people direct their energy when they have to deal with ideas, information, explanations or beliefs, and the inner world. Sensing is associated with dealing with facts, what you know, and what you see. Intuition is more so associated with dealing with ideas, or the unknown. Thinking involves the decision-making based of logic, while feeling is based off using values to make decisions. Judging is when you prefer to have your life all planned out ahead of time, and perception is when you just go with the flow as things arise.

None of these types is "better" or "worse"; however, Briggs and Myers theorized that people innately "prefer" one overall combination of type differences.[1]:9 In the same way that writing with the left hand is difficult for some who is right handed, so people tend to find using their opposite psychological preferences more difficult though they can become more proficient (and therefore behaviorally flexible) with practice and development.

The 16 types are typically referred to by an abbreviation of four letters—the initial letters of each of their four type preferences (except in the case of intuition, which uses the abbreviation "N" to distinguish it from introversion). For instance:

·        ESTJ: extraversion (E), sensing (S), thinking (T), judgment (J)

·        INFP: introversion (I), intuition (N), feeling (F), perception (P)

These abbreviations are applied to all 16 types that result from the interactions of preferences.