Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2025-11-15
Books mentioned on Selects: How Personality Tests Work
For millennia, we have tried to put human personalities into neat types, an effort psychology took up early in its history in an effort to legitimize itself. But is the idea of types – which all personality inventories are based on - flawed to begin with?
Josh Clark discussed Psychological Types by Carl Jung. Chuck Bryant discussed What's Wrong With The Rorschach by James M. Wood and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Psychological Types
Psychological Types is a foundational 1921 text by Carl Jung that introduces major concepts in analytical psychology, including introversion, extraversion, and the structure of personality.
Discussed“Who wrote a book called uh psychological types.”
Where to get it
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What's Wrong With The Rorschach
Discussed“This um Howard Garb in this one article you sent, he's a co-author of what's wrong with the Roarshack and he is head of psych or at least at the time of this article, he may still be head of psychological testing for the Air Force.”
Where to get it
