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David Keirsey
Fine-tuner of the four temperaments.
David Keirsey PhD, born on August 31, 1921, is a renowned clinical psychologist, author and professor at California State University,
Fullerton. He specializes in family counseling and conflict management and developed the Keirsey Temperament Sorter which identifies
16 personality types.
Keirsey's most notable contribution was his combining of Kretschmer's model of four temperament types
with Isabel Briggs Myers' Jungian model of eight function types.
He noted that the four types with N & F preferences are most like each other, the four types with S & P are alike and so on.
The result was a more useful set of temperaments which each of the 16 personality types fit into.
Note that on MyPersonality.info we give the temperaments different "nicknames" than Keirsey.
Books
Keirsey has authored several excellent books. We highly recommend Please Understand Me and Please Understand Me II.
Links
Find more information about David Keirsey and his work on these sites.
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