Myers–Briggs
/ˌmʌɪəzˈbrɪɡz/Psychology
noun
1Attributive Designating or relating to a psychometric test used to classify a person into any of sixteen, loosely Jungian personality types by evaluating the choices made when the person is presented with a number of pairs of words or possible responses to hypothetical situations, and asked which of each pair is more appealing. Especially in Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.
- Myers–Briggs Type Indicator is a trademark..
2The Myers–Briggs psychometric test.
Origin
1950s. From the names of Isabel Briggs Myers, U.S. psychologist, and her mother Katharine Cook Briggs, who developed the test.