The MBTI and social information processing: an incremental validity study
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John A Edwards1, Kevin Lanning, Karen Hooker
1Department of Psychology, Oregon State University, Corvallis 97331-5303, USA. edwardjo@ucs.orst.edu
Abstract:
The ability of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI; Myers & McCaulley, 1985) to predict performance on social cognitive tasks tapping information processing effort was assessed. Judgment and intuition interacted to predict amount of attributional adjustment on a dispositional attribution task. The MBTI scales predicted processing above and beyond measures of the five factors, rational-experiential preferences, and causal uncertainty. The relevance of these results for interpretation of the MBTI indexes is discussed.
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