![]() Today, attempting to measure personality is a fun conversation topic, a still-growing area of scientific study, and a multibillion-dollar industry. Your best friend is a Miranda, and you enjoy her company even though she’s a Gemini. Billy is an extrovert Sarah wants you to know that her love language is gifts. The point is, people have historically made great efforts to categorize their inner workings, and they haven’t stopped trying. And in 2022, a BuzzFeed contributor suggested that everyone is either an apple or a banana. The psychologist Carl Jung, in his 1921 book, Psychological Types, proposed two major attitudinal types (introversion and extroversion) and four cognitive functions (thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition) that combine to yield eight different psychological profiles. In ancient Greece, the physician Hippocrates is said to have theorized that the ratio of four bodily fluids-blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm-dictated a person’s distinct temperament. This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. ![]()
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