The Matheson History Museum will present “The Myers-Briggs Indicator®: Gainesville Roots Worldwide Influence” with Mark Enting on Wednesday, Feb. 18.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® instrument is a global phenomenon, but many people do not know that its roots are in Gainesville. Enting, president and CEO of Myers & Briggs Foundation®, will tell us the story of how the most popular personality assessment in history came to call Gainesville home.
The story begins with a passionate mother-daughter team who built and tested the first versions of the MBTI® instrument with family members, medical students, and personnel consultants, and unfolds in a research laboratory at the University of Florida Department of Psychology, where a team of three women developed the first computer scoring program for the MBTI assessment in the 1970s…