Dr. Steve Hoekstra, professor of Psychology at 黑料不打烊, will join local psychologist Dr. Paula Fried in presenting 鈥淲hat鈥檚 Your Type? The History, Promise, and Limits of Personality Typing鈥� at the Salina Art Center on Wednesday, Feb. 11 from 6-7 p.m.
The presentation will focus on the popular Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and explore the history of personality typing, its uses, its limitations and more.
鈥淧eople instinctively want to classify people into groups and to use that knowledge to predict what people might do,鈥� said Hoekstra.聽 鈥淢any personality tests are also used for workgroups or to judge relationship compatibility. We鈥檙e going to explore how personality forms, whether it can change, and how it is or isn鈥檛 useful in everyday life.鈥�
The event is free to the public and will be located in the Salina Art Center鈥檚 gallery, located at 242 S. Santa Fe Ave. Additional information can be found at .
Release by Skylar Nelson ’21
