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Bill Goffe <[log in to unmask]>
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From what I understand, psychologists don't think that much of
Myers-Briggs. I'm thinking that they use the "Big Five" personality traits
quite a bit more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits .

    - Bill


Jim said:

> Hi Mark
> 
> Pete Ostachuk in Mech Eng has been using Myers-briggs for over a decade to help in Forming his tbl teams....he has also done some nice research on it as well
> 
> You can contact him at ostafichuk@ mech.ubc.ca.....I know he is about to head out on sabbatical....once he finishes the book chapter he owes me :-)
> 
> Jim Sibley
> 
> Sorry for brief message -sent from my iPad
> 
> On 2013-04-21, at 8:27 AM, Mark Stevens <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Hi all -
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> > I've been thinking a lot about "personality types" lately, and how they might relate to team performance. I would guess that teams with a mixture of different personality types might perform better than those whose students all have the same personality type, and I would also think that it would be good experience for students to have to work with people that have different personality types from their own, independent of whether exposure to different types serves to increase performance.
> > 
> > I am curious to know if any of you use personality type (e.g. Myers-Briggs) information to help form teams, and if so, whether you think it's worth the effort. Do you form the teams on the first day of class? When do you ask the students to complete a personality type questionnaire? Do you try to make sure that the personality types are evenly-distributed across the teams, or do you use some other kind of distribution strategy?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
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Bill Goffe
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Department of Economics
Penn State University
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