Extraverts

• Direct their energy and attention primarily toward the outside world of people, things, activities
• Are people of action.
• Are often gregarious, talkative, think best "with the volume on."
• Are energized by people and activity; relax through them.
  
• Prefer to act first, think about it afterwards.

Introverts

• Direct their primary energy and attention toward the inner world of reflection, thought, and feeling.
  
• Often work well with thoughts and ideas.
  
• Think "with the volume off"; may share thoughts only if asked.
  
• May find it difficult to remember names and faces.
  
• May be exhausted by too many people and activities; relax and are energized through quiet, privacy, intimacy.
  
• prefer to think things through carefully before acting.

Sensing Types

• Perceive the world primarily through the five senses.
  
• Are interested in fact.
  
• Are realistic, practical, down to earth.
  
• Are usually accurate, steady, precise, patient and effective with routine and details
  
• Like to keep things simple; dislike unnecessary complication.
  
• Like to practice skills they already know.
  
• Are often relatively traditional, conventional.
  
• Are oriented toward the present, the concrete, here and now.

Intuitive Types

• Perceive the world primarily through intuition.
  
• Are interested in possibilities.
  
• Are interested in abstract concepts, implications, relationships between things and/or ideas
  
• Are often creative and innovative.
  
• Often dislike routine, attending to details
  
• Enjoy learning new skills, facing new and challenging problems.
  
• Often work in bursts of energy and enthusiasm; need to feel inspired.
  
• May exaggerate, recall things inaccurately.
  
• May be impractical, especially when they first think something up.
  
• Are oriented toward the future.

Thinking Types

• Make decisions and come to conclusions on the basis of thinking.
  
• Are usually logical, rational, analytical, critical.
  
• Decide things relatively impersonally, are less swayed by feelings and emotions.
  
• May have difficulty recognizing and acknowledging people's feelings.
  
• Can deal with interpersonal disharmony; can be firm and assertive when appropriate.
  
• Need and value fairness.

Feeling Types

• Make decisions and come to conclusions on the basis of feeling.
  
• Use personal values, personal likes and dislikes as the basis for decisions.
  
• Make relatively less use of logical analysis in making decisions.
  
• Are often warm, empathic, sympathetic.
  
• Value harmony; are distressed by serious argument, interpersonal friction; may have difficulty being firm and assertive.
  
• Need and value kindness.

Judging Types

• Approach the outside world in a judging attitude, trying to order and control it.
  
• Make up their minds and come to decisions quickly.
  
• May jump to conclusions, even be close-minded.
  
• Plan ahead; like to make and follow plans.
  
• Like to work steadily until finished, get things done as soon as possible; dislike working on many things at once.
  
• Are usually well organized; dislike having things disorganized and unpredictable.

Perceiving Types

• Approach the outside world in a perceiving attitude, gathering information, trying to adapt to the world.
  
• Like to delay decisions, get more information, keep options open.
  
• Are flexible, spontaneous, often good in emergencies or when plans are disrupted.
  
• Work at may things at once, may start more than they finish.
  
• May be prone to procrastination and/or disorganization.
  
• Are often very adaptable and open-minded.

Summary prepared and (c) 1993 by Tom Carskadon Mississippi State University Psychology Department