functional types

in Carl Jung’s analytic psychology, four personality types based on functions of the ego. Jung identified four functions, one of which typically dominates the conscious ego while the others remain unconscious. The individuated person (see individuation) will have integrated all the functions into his or her conscious personality. The functional types are (a) the feeling type; (b) the thinking type; (c) the sensation type; and (d) the intuitive type. See quaternity. See also attitudinal types.

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November 28th 2024

agreeableness

n. the tendency to act in a cooperative, unselfish manner, construed as one end of a dimension of individual differences (agreeableness vs. disagreeableness) in the Big Five personality model. It is also a dimension in the five-factor personality model. —agreeable adj.