The Cult of Personality Testing: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves

fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry 1 are not based on well-tested research but on science that is itself a bit mad: misconceived, flawed, erroneous, misinterpreted, and often misreported.

Forer rivelò agli studenti che era stato consegnato a tutti lo stesso documento, compilato prima ancora che il questionario fosse somministrato. Il testo era piú meno cosí: Hai bisogno dell’apprezzamento altrui e hai una certa tendenza all’autocritica, a volte distruttiva. Hai debolezze caratteriali, ma in genere sei in grado di gestirle. Hai molte

Foundation for the Study of Personality in History,

There is a dark, insidious quality to the ideology promoted by the positive psychologists. They condemn all social critics and iconoclasts, the dissidents and individualists, for failing to surrender and seek fulfillment in the collective lowing of the corporate herd. They strangle creativity and moral autonomy. They seek to mold and shape individu