Personality and the "Laboratory Style"'

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Much laboratory training activity assumes that all individuals have adequate skills for learning from immediate experience. The following study is based on the alternate premise that this type of learning requires a scientific posture toward one's world, and that this posture may be much more difficult for some personality types than for others. The author investigated this premise, using the Sensation Intuition scale of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (1962), and assuming that the Intuitive (N) mode of perception would be more facilitative of operation in the "laboratory style" than the Sensation (S) mode. Using three laboratory populations, it was found that the S-N scale does predict tendencies toward laboratory interpersonal value orientations (as measured by the Managerial Behavior Questionnaire) and ratings of effectiveness in a T Group. The scale was found less effective in predicting actual change. Several implications for laboratory selection and design are suggested.

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