Psychology is fun

It is commonly believed myth that personality testing instruments can measure your personality and predict your future behaviors. The pre-employment testing mechanism has been following this creed without any solid evidence. The testing industry claims all out validity. The educational institutions and employer organizations use them for screening purposes. Their transparency and equity has even convinced the courts of law.

But it is still an unresolved riddle; what do they test?

Do they test personality? What is personality then? What is its nature? How does it come into existence? Is it outcome...

Secret information? Okay, probably not much remains truly hidden অথবা forbidden anymore, but there are little secrets about how things work. Salesmen, politicians, and others learn and use subtle techniques to influence you. "Lucky people" use little-known tricks to get that way. Here are some examples.

Controling Through Words

There is a classic joke, "Have আপনি stopped beating your wife?" It is difficult to answer without incriminating yourself. This technique of the implicit premise is used দ্বারা politicians for আরো than jokes. Get everyone to argue about how to do something, for example, like...

Have আপনি ever wondered why your spouse, coworkers, অথবা children seem to think so differently from you? আপনি may not understand why they make the decisions they do, অথবা why they place such importance on things that seem inconsequential to you. It is possible to understand the উত্তর to all these questions. The secret lies in the theory of Myers-Briggs personality type.

In the 1960's a psychological theorist named Katharine Briggs had many of the same প্রশ্ন আপনি do. She wondered why some of her family members had such logical, linear thinking processes, when she herself was আরো likely to take...