The Cult of Personality Testing - How Personality Tests Are Leading Us
to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves
Book description
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for
every reader. "Ms. Paul draws a veritable quacks' gallery of
modern personality testing. With an eye for the absurd, she makes a
compelling case that such tests tell us more about the men and women who
put them together than about the subjects taking them."
-- The Wall Street Journal
Annie Murphy Paul is a magazine journalist and book
author who writes about the biological and social sciences. Born in
Philadelphia, she graduated from Yale University and from the Columbia
University Graduate School of Journalism. A former senior editor at
Psychology Today magazine, she was awarded the Rosalynn
Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism. Her writing has
appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times
Book Review, Slate, Discover, Health, O:
The Oprah Magazine, and many other publications. She is the
author of The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are
Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and
Misunderstand Ourselves. An article based on Origins was
selected for inclusion in the Best American Science Writing 2009.
