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03.08b. Personality Tests, Myers-Briggs, the Five-Factor Model, and Intergalactic Explorers. This week in our game theory study group we'll be thinking about an article that's not game theory, but is important for thinking about commitment, rationality, and preferences: Bryan Caplan (2003) "Stigler-Becker versus Myers-Briggs: Why Preference-Based Explanations Are Scientifically Meaningful and Empirically Important," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 50: 391-405. The paper can be downloaded via the author's good website. I see he links to two of the three on-line personality tests I know about,the Keirsey version of Myers-Briggs and the Short Form for the IPIP-NEO (International Personality Item Pool Representation of the NEO PI-R. See also the International Personality Item Pool website generally. The third test I know about is the Intergalactic Explorer Personality Test, a futuristic variant on Myers-Briggs.

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