Personality tests like the Myers-Briggs and Enneagram can help with introspection—but experts warn against taking the results too seriously.
sk Erin Mantz why she loves personality tests, and she’ll tell you she’s a Pisces, an only child, and an introvert prone to self-reflection. “I’m constantly craving and searching for insights into why I do what I do, and what makes me tick,” she says. Since discovering them at her college career center, she’s taken many different kinds, but the most transformative was the one she took with her coworkers at AOL in her 30s.
But why do people like personality tests so much, and which are the most accurate? How should—and shouldn’t—we interpret their results?Personality tests are a useful way for people to better understand themselves, especially when they’re young, says Brent Roberts, a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who studies personality development and assessment. “We’re trying to figure out ourselves and why the world reacts to us the way it does,” he says.
Many personality tests use generic language in their results that could easily apply to whoever is reading it. Scientists call it the Barnum Effect. “It comes from P. T. Barnum saying there’s a sucker born every minute,” says Stephen Benning, a psychology professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas who studies basic emotional processes. “They’ll basically be able to take this very generic statement about universal human tendencies and somehow think it’s uniquely applicable to them.
Errico cautions her therapy clients not to over-identify with their results. She’s seen people get too invested in their personality type, which. Or, they might push themselves into a job that’s not the right fit, because their personality test indicates theyenjoy it. “It’s important to remember that the test doesn’t determine who we are,” she says. “We get to determine who we are.
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