David Keirsey | |
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| Born | August 31, 1921 |
| Died | July 30, 2013 (aged 91) |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Pomona College Claremont Graduate University |
| Known for | Please Understand Me, Keirsey Temperament Sorter |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Personality psychology |
| Institutions | formerly California State University |
David West Keirsey (/ˈkɜːrziː/; August 31, 1921 – July 30, 2013[1]) was an American psychologist, a professor emeritus at California State University, Fullerton, and the author of several books. In his most popular publications, Please Understand Me (1978, co-authored by Marilyn Bates) and the revised and expanded second volume Please Understand Me II (1998), he laid out a self-assessed personality questionnaire, known as the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, which links human behavioral patterns to four temperaments and sixteen character types. Both volumes of Please Understand Me contain the questionnaire for type evaluation with detailed portraits and a systematic treatment of descriptions of temperament traits and personality characteristics. With a focus on conflict management and cooperation, Keirsey specialized in family and partnership counseling and the coaching of children and adults.
- ^ "My Father, The Greatest, and Of the Greatest Generation", Obituary by his son, David Mark Keirsey, 14 August 2013.