Migrating personality theories Part 2: towards a theory of the balanced personality?

Some personality schemas are seen to compete with others, but might they are really be complimentary? Two trait approaches, MBTI and Mindscape theory, are normally considered to be competitive, and we shall show that their migrated forms into knowledge cybernetics can illustrate complementarity. This paper was the Highly Commended Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2010.

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