Personality tests can be fun to take, but they can also be frustrating. They’re black and white. Most popular personality tests assume that people can be classified into distinct personality types.

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Ask Erin Mantz why she loves personality tests, and she’ll tell you she’s a Pisces, an only child, and an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Personality tests are often treated as tools for diagnosis or ...

The Enneagram, to its subscribers and skeptics, is different from other personality tests. Unlike attachment theory, which was founded by psychologist and psychiatrist John Bowlby in the mid-20th ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Around 80% of Fortune 500 companies are using personality tests to understand their employees better — but they don’t give you the whole ...

Are you an “ISFP” like Bob Dylan and Rihanna or an “ENTJ” like Bill Gates and Margaret Thatcher? Perhaps you’re an “INTP” like Albert Einstein and Tina Fey? If you are one of tens of millions of ...

Emily Laurence is a journalist, freelance writer and certified health coach living in Raleigh, North Carolina. She specializes in writing about mental health, healthy aging and overall wellness. For ...

What kind of person are you? Are you passionate? Aloof? Worried? Diligent? Artsy? Dominant? Submissive? Shy? Personalities come in all shapes and sizes. And we all have traits that serve as the ...

Personality tests feel authoritative, but most rest on shaky evidence. Used like broken rulers, they can prompt reflection without turning labels into destiny.