Jung’s Eight Personality Types

Carl Jung believed that individuals each have different psychological types. According to him, we have two basic “functions” in our lives: knowing how to perceive things and how to make decisions. From these two types, we function differently through our senses or through our intuition. He firmly believes that all of these functions we apply them in our lives. However, we have varying ways in using these functions with different outcomes and amount of success.

But he created an order of preference for these varying functions wherein the frequently used function is the “dominant” one which can either be extraverted or introverted. He stressed that the dominant function is very important since it overshadows the rest of the functions in all of the eight personality types. The following are the eight personality types he created:



1. Extraverted Sensing
2. Introverted Sensing
3. Extraverted Intuition
4. Introverted Intuition
5. Extraverted Thinking
6. Introverted Thinking
7. Extraverted Feeling
8. Introverted Feeling



These types of personalities were further researched and studied by a mother and daughter tandem wherein they created a combination of the abovementioned personality types based on the four major preferences of individual personality.