Talk:Personality type (Friedman)
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[edit] Expand or merge
This article should be either expanded or merged with other similar articles, such as Personality psychology. Or it might have the Type A and B Personality articles merged into it. --Mr. Billion 19:12, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
I would say the material needs to be merged into Personality psychology and the article deleted. --Halcatalyst 03:40, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
"It wasn't until the 1970's that Professor Beaver understood that Type B personalities are more inclined to assault, murder and/or rape women over 50."
Does this mean that Type B's over 50 are more likely to assault women, or that they are more likely to assault women who are over 50? If the latter, does this mean Type B's are more likely to assault women who are over 50 than Type A's, or that they are more likely to assault a woman over 50 as opposed to a woman younger than 50? And a similar question could be posed for the former.
[edit] Change the character of this article
I moved the information on Type A and Type B to the article on Personality psychology, also cleaning up the short articles on these two topics. IMO the Type B article could be deleted, as nobody refers to Type B outside the context of Type A. After awhile maybe I'll propose it for deletion.
"Personality type" is a reasonable heading for an article on the less academic approaches, as suggested for example by this page on personality types. I'm planning to work up this article; please comment if you wish. --Halcatalyst 03:04, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
I think both personality type should be merged together under the main article. --Janarius 14:36, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Rename
I believe that to most people, "personality type" best applies to the much broader field most popularly familiar through a small aspect of it known as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and to a smaller aspect known as the Enneagram. Lou Sander 17:04, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Type A is everywhere!
Type A and B are everywhere on Wikipedia! This is quite surprising, considering how poorly this model has faired in the scientific research in recent years. But maybe not so surprising as it seems to have a life of its own in pop psychology. I reduced the amount of coverage on the Personality psychology page and redirected the Type B page to Type A personality, as it was little more than a stub, and not meaningful outside the context of Type A, as mentioned above. I also upgraded the research content and references on that page. Most of this information is covered again under Friedman's bio page... and this page has excessive detail on research that is now rather past its prime. The title "Personality Type" is way to broad, implying that this is the main type of personality that has been studied. Let's delete this sucker. Jcbutler 02:59, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
- I agree that this article isn't all that great. Deletion might be the best solution. See my comment immediately above about "Personality Type," though. Somebody with knowledge of the field needs to go over all these related articles and make them into an integrated whole. I have layman's knowledge of Jung's theory of personality type; the Myers-Briggs Type indicator (a popular test based on Jung's theory); and the Enneagram (a similar theory). I'm not up to integrating them with a larger coverage of the subject ("Personality"), however. Lou Sander 18:12, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
The Wikipedia entries on this subject are a bit of a mess, not unlike the field of personality itself. We have personality psychology and trait theory as umbrella entries, along with many specific entries on individual theories and models. Part of the problem is that "personality type" is a loose grouping of models, many of which are poised somewhere between pop psychology and scientific psychology. Many professional psychologists probably wish things like Type A would just go away, but we need some kind of entry on them, at least for historical reference. As you suggested, we may want to use "personality type" as another umbrella category, along with links to key theories, such as Myers Briggs, and probably methodological criticisms. Jcbutler 19:01, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
