Neuroscience of Personality: Brain Savvy Insights for All Types of People

I love this book. I've used the MBTI for years in PreMarital Counseling, Marriage Counseling and Career Counseling that I do as a Pastor. It's interesting to learn about the neuroscience and brain studies Dr. Nardi has done and tied it into MBTI types. It helped me see why I used to score ENFJ on the MBTI and more recently ESFJ. My job requires I use a slightly different mix of cognitive functions that map to adjoining areas of brain functioning. Very interesting read and practical to understanding human thinking and personality energies and preferences.

This book is friendly to readers of all levels. Whether you are new to personality typing or familiar with Jung and Myers-Briggs, this book offers a basic foundation to personality typing and introduces new studies using EEG and brain mapping techniques to combine personality theory with neuroscience. Best of all, the book speaks to the reader and how this information can be applied in a helpful manner for personal development. If you are looking to learn more about personality type, basic neuroscience with an emphasis on psychology, or just general self study and improvement, this is the book for you. Perhaps my favorite part is the integrity and utility of the research is very clear. The book fully documents how the information was gathered, addresses practical limitations to the study, and explains exactly how the data can be of use. The language is concise emphasizing quality and content. The goals, practical applications, and scope of the material covered are immediately made clear to the reader, so there is no need to filter through pseudo-intellectual garbage, an all-too common offense in many psychology books.

Neuroscience of Personality is one of the most useful books about psychology that I've ever owned, and is one of the few that I refer back to several times a month - my copy, bought more than a year ago, has a litany of scribbles in the margins as well as colored sticky tabs erupting from it. Despite an intimidating title, Dario Nardi has written a book for all levels of knowledge; the book is not only easily understood, but it helps you understand others better. Neuroscience of Personality brings the scientific method to bear on the work begun by Carl Jung in Psychological Types, and I consider Nardi's descriptions of the eight Jungian functions and their basis in EEG-derived data to be an essential companion to what Jung began. If you have both books, I highly recommend reading each chapter that Jung wrote about each function, and then reading what the data Nardi collected suggest about these methods of cognition - for me, it was illuminating. There are a lot of books out there about MBTI and personality theory. This is best one I've found, because it is based on data, not self-reporting. Nardi spends time explaining how he acquired the data used in the book so you as a reader can understand the advantages and the limitations of EEG-based research; he does not write as if he as found Every Answer (tm), but suggests a future path of inquiry and presents the reader with many useful takeaways of what he's encountered thus far.

The information in this book focuses on a study done by Dario Nardi that lends to a fun and interesting melding of personality typology and brain activity, and while the information is great, it doesn't go very deep into any of the implications regarding the actual Neuroscience of Personality. It's a fantastic and fun overview, but I do hope more thorough research and studies are done on this subject.

Basically, this book, along with other assessments and studies from Myers-Briggs, Carl Jung, etc. views personality as a science and shows functioning of how personality works with the mind. If you have taken the MBTI Personality Assessment (I recommend a professional environment, such as therapy or taking a school course in personality or psychology), it is actually quite helpful in looking after what your strengths are. This book is a way of looking at your personality and how it works with the mind. Different angles, such as, "what is Extraverted Sensing? How does a mainly functioning extraverted sensor have the mind work? When does it work best? What personalities mainly work for this function? What are good questions to ask an extraverted sensor?" and not just for extraverted sensing, but the other main cognitive functions and personality types. If you have taken the test, a 4-letter combination along the lines of INTP may look familiar and there is a way you can further look into how it can help. Not only would reading the results you originally received help, but so can looking through the book AND realizing your potential for what you are capable of doing. Yes, it does have a few pictures; fascinating pictures that ideally show how a personality type would standardly function in the brain.

The book is a well written, practical, report. The author, an award winning UCLA professor, shows clearly that it is plausible that there is an correlation between Myers-Briggs personality and activity in certain regions of the brain. You don't have to be an expert to understand the book from beginning to end. The correlation has been found in lab experiments. The reader can find out his/her own personalty type and understand which brainprocesses and -regions are most probably favorite. The author suggests that by understanding the neuroscience of personality, we can improve education, work and relationships. The book is not an final overview, but as the author states: this is version 1.0. For me, as a lecturer, it is a welcome guide to help to understand the different ways of learning and how I can motivate and stimulate students to learn. The book is inspiring and great fun to read, because the author succeeded well in translating a longterm academic (pilot)study into a very accessible practicle guide.

Valuable insights into how typology is mapped in the brain

This book is a fascinating study of the physicality of thought. Brain activity mapped very specifically that goes far beyond the Jungian archetypes they reference.

An interesting book.

Great book! Finally some scientific processes were used to help confirm Carl Jung's cognitive functions theory. It was fascinating learning how the 16 types use different areas of the brain to make sense of the world. Clearly written and well organized, I enjoyed this a lot and if you're interested in this science then you will too.

Dario Nardi provides an outstanding perspective on the evidence supportingJung’s observations on Personality Types and the evidence from his EEG studies.

Not finished it all. A lot to cover

It claims to be scientific and cool, but in reality there's nothing scientific in this book. The author is a con artist, cashing-off MBTI crowd.