Here’s Why People Love Personality Tests

Elizabeth Demolat
3 min readMar 27, 2020
Photo by Alexandru Zdrobău on Unsplash

According to quizzes on Buzzfeed, the Disney Princess I am most like is Jasmine, my romantic type is The Brainiac, and the planet that I am is Neptune.

If you said you’ve never stopped for a minute online to take similar personality quizzes, you’re either lying or you’re very much in the minority. For some reason, we’re drawn to these sources that promise to reveal even just a little bit about ourselves.

Some personality tests have become so widespread that people routinely expect others to understand their personality type when they bring it up. These people put their results in their social media bios as a way to show others the kind of person that they are.

The Myers-Briggs assessment

In fact, you’ve likely heard of the Myers-Briggs in both your personal and professional life. Originally, this test was created by Katharine Briggs and Isabel Myers to help people find their place socially. However, the test moved to the professional sector. It took off in popularity when the created began to target the test as a way for employers, institutions, and organizations to place their employees in the right niche.

Surprisingly, although neither of the creators had training in psychology, people have strong feelings about their Meyers-Briggs types. The results of…

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Elizabeth Demolat
Elizabeth Demolat

Written by Elizabeth Demolat

Lover of books, adventures, friends, dancing, muffins, France, camp fires, and Ole Miss. And, I teach.

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