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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

An introduction for law students

Legal EthicsLegal Profession



MBTI® Developed From Work of Carl Jung and Application of Isabel Briggs Myers and Katherine

Briggs

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Jung, C.G. (1923). Psychological Types. New York:Harcourt Brace Jovanovich• Myers, I.B. (1980a). Introduction to Type. Palo Alto,

CA: Consulting Psychologists Press• Myers, I.B. (l980b). Gifts Differing . Palo Alto, CA:

Consulting Psychologists Press



Preferences we bring to informationgathering and decision making

• Jung concluded that much seemingly chancevariation in human behavior is the result of a fewobservable differences in mental functioning.

• Modern biological research regarding cognitivedevelopment to confirms many of Jung

’

sconclusions



Why learn about MBTI in lawschool?

Knowing something about the MBTI can help you,as students and professionals

Respond to individual differences• In your classmates• In your teachers• In your clients

Confirm your own understanding of your strengthsand weaknesses as a developing lawyer



• I find it helpful in a class in Legal Ethics tohelp you better understand:

• The facts you see as important•

Different ways of processing information• Your decision-making processes, how you

come to judgments.



Group Process

• Move from an ego-centric view thatinterprets through self-reference, to aperspective that supports an assumptionthat what other people do is valuable eventhough different.



Type Can Provide an Explanation

It Does Not Provide an Excuse



Perception – Sensing and iNtuition

• Read in preparation for a Case-based class• When using Sensing students start by

exploring the assigned case to create aconcrete context for understanding practicalapplications

• When using iNtuition students look for an

general overview before reading cases tocreate a framework for understand the casesassigned



Judgment: Thinking and Feeling

• When using Thinking, focus on the objective,logical application of law to facts

• When using Feeling steps into the factualsituations and identifies with one or anotherof the parties to assess the impact of judicialreasoning on the people whose cases are usedas textbook examples



Direction of Energy – Extraversion andIntroversion

• Extraversion – learn best when operate inworld outside themselves, talking with others.

• Introversion – prefer to operate in their innerworld as the ponder ideas until they figurethem out, and only then share ideas, not tofigure them out but to check the accuracy oftheir understanding



Lifestyle Orientation – Perception andJudgment

• Which general function used as students“extravert’.

• When Judging, apply evaluative processes toorganize their lives – set schedules, organizematerials

• When using Perception – lifestyles that allowflexible to new information, prefer to work inspurts and are pushed by deadlines



16 different Types

• ISTJ ISFJ INFJ INTJ

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ISTP ISFP INFP INTP

• ESTP ESFP ENFP ENTP

• ESTJ ESFJ ENFJ ENTJ

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