“In this installment of our ‘Annals of Obsession’ video series, we dive into the history and validity of personality assessments, from the less-known measures used by psychologists to … the ever-popular Myers-Briggs, created by a mother-daughter duo without any experimental training. Do these measures … tell us anything real about ourselves? And what is it about the human mind that leads us to keep seeking them out, in era after era and society after society, endlessly striving to organize the people around us into ‘types’ that may, or so we hope, help explain them all?” (video)