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what are personality type theories?

Personality type theories are theories that tend to classify people into different categories based on some of their personality traits. Each theory divides people into different groups based on some common traits, by knowing to which group you belong to you can know about some of your personality traits and you can use this information to better understand someone else.

does personality type theories give complete personality
information?

Off course not, each theory covers some of the personality traits and not all of them, so by using one of those theories you can know some information about somone but you can never know all of his personality information.

But don’t get sad, still you can know much more about that person by applying more than one theory on him, after all those personality theories are not mutually exclusive, a person could have a type A personality according to one theory and in addition he could have a mesomorph body type according to another theory, so in this case that person will have both the personality traits of a type A personality and the traits of mesomorph. (as you can see in the picture)

what are the common personality type theories?

There are many personality type theories around but the most famous ones are:

• somatotypes by William Sheldon the somatotypes personality theory classified people into three major groups based on their outer appearance, what’s really good about this theory is that its accurate and can be used just by noticing the other person’s physical appearance (no need to interact with him).
• Jungian types by Myers Briggs: also called the the Myers-Briggs Personality Type indicator (MBTI), one of the most famous personality theories out there, it classifies people into 16 different groups based on four different preferences (extroversion and introversion, sensing and intuition, thinking and feeling, judging and perceiving). The different combination of the four preferences gives 16 unique combinations each one having its own personality traits. The problem with MBTI is that you have to interact with the person in order to know to which group does he belong.
• Type A and type B personality: this theory classifies people into two different groups called the type A and the type B personalities, the type A is an achiever,he always feels time conscious and have got problems relaxing, on the other hand the type b is a relaxed person who does not give that much attention to time or achievements

are those three theories enough?

No, people's personality is something bigger than what does those theories cover, that’s why I strongly recommend using body language, face reading and graphology in addition to the above theories when assessing someone’s personality, using all of these together you will have robust understanding of people, you may even understand some people more than they do understand themselves, don’t wonder, just read further and you will discover this yourself.

Did that help?

Yes, but tell me more about somatotypes personality theory

Yes but tell me more about the MBTI personality theory

Yes but tell me more about Type A and type B personalities

Yes but teach me more about graphology

Yes but teach me body language

Yes but teach me face reading