Personality Types
Every type in the suite, explained. Read up on a system, then take the matching test to find where you land.
The four-letter Myers-Briggs-style types (like INFP, ESTJ) — how you direct energy, take in information, decide, and organise life.
16 types →Nine core motivations — each with a driving desire and a defining fear.
9 types →Three survival instincts — self-preservation, social, one-to-one — stacked into six variants.
6 types →How you relate in close relationships — the balance of closeness and independence.
4 types →The five ways people most naturally give and receive love.
5 types →The classical humours — read from Extraversion and emotional stability.
4 types →The five broad dimensions personality science keeps rediscovering.
5 types →The Big Five read as a five-letter type — RCOAI, SLUEN, and the other 30.
32 types →The Russian 16-type tradition — quadras, Model A, and the famous “dual”.
16 types →Volition, Logic, Emotion and Physics — ranked by how confident you are in each.
4 types →Four darker tendencies everyone has to some degree — not a clinical label.
4 types →From strong growth to strong fixed — how you read your own ability.
5 types →Internal to external — where you locate the cause of what happens to you.
5 types →Vata, Pitta and Kapha — movement, transformation and structure.
3 types →Upholder, Questioner, Obliger, Rebel — how you meet expectations.
4 types →A, B, AB and O — the Japanese folk typology. No scientific basis.
4 types →Five cognitive styles along the empathy ↔ systems spectrum.
5 types →The four corners of the economic × social grid.
4 types →Five instincts that underlie moral judgments.
5 types →The classic Lawful–Chaotic × Good–Evil grid. Just for fun.
9 types →Where you fall on the morning-lark ↔ night-owl spectrum.
5 types →The honest ↔ strategic spectrum of the "sixth factor".
3 types →Six interest types (RIASEC) that describe the kinds of work people enjoy.
6 types →Six broad dimensions — the Big Five plus Honesty-Humility, the factor it leaves out.
6 types →Four workplace styles — Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Conscientiousness.
4 types →Five ways of handling disagreement, on the assertiveness × cooperativeness grid.
5 types →Lee's six colours of love — how each person tends to love.
6 types →Ten universal values that guide what people care about — a circle of compatible and competing motivations.
10 types →The eight Jungian functions behind the 16 types — four of perceiving, four of deciding.
8 types →The VIA classification of 24 character strengths, grouped under six core virtues.
24 types →Gardner's eight kinds of strength — word, logic, picture, body, music, people, self and nature smart.
8 types →The twelve Sun signs — each with its element, quality and ruling planet. Just for fun.
12 types →The twelve animals of the sexagenary cycle — your birth year’s sign. Just for fun.
12 types →Numerology’s 1–9 plus the master numbers 11, 22 and 33. Just for fun.
12 types →Artisan, Guardian, Idealist, Rational — the 16 types in four families.
4 types →Your leading type in each of the three centres — 27 archetype blends.
27 types →King, Warrior, Magician and Lover — the four mature-masculine archetypes.
4 types →The seven Greek-goddess archetypes from Bolen’s Goddesses in Everywoman.
7 types →Six kinds of worker — Maker, Analyst, Creator, Helper, Leader and Organiser.
6 types →Eight ways of bringing a little more light into the world — Healer, Messenger, Seer and more.
8 types →Lion, Bear, Wolf and Dolphin — Dr. Breus’s four sleep chronotypes.
4 types →Gold, Blue, Green and Orange — the popular four-colour personality model.
4 types →Goleman’s five domains of emotional intelligence — from self-awareness to social skills.
5 types →The seven energy centres, from grounded Root to transcendent Crown.
7 types →Seven aura colours, from fiery Red to mystical Violet.
7 types →Eight archetypal animals — Wolf, Owl, Eagle, Bear, Fox, Deer, Butterfly and Tiger.
8 types →The 22 Major Arcana of the tarot, read as personality archetypes.
22 types →What each of the 22 Major Arcana means in a tarot reading — upright and reversed.
22 types →What each of the 56 Minor Arcana means in a tarot reading — the four suits, upright and reversed.
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