WHAT YOU GET
A 13-Page Report Designed as a Participant Workbook
The Report Delivers a four-letter type code and introduces participants to the eight cognitive processes through a structured report covering perception, judgment, the personality type code, and all 16 type patterns.
The Participant Experience Participants access results through the Participant Hub, where they explore full descriptions of all 16 types (~2,400 words each), use the Compare and Connect tool, and work through guided questions for bridging differences.
The Practitioner Platform Practitioners receive a separate report with detailed cognitive process scores. You administer through the Pro Account with project-based management, PDF and on-screen reporting, participant feedback, and NPS documentation.
Built for Practitioners Who Want More Than the Four Letters
Most type instruments deliver the four dichotomies and leave it to you to explain what happens underneath. If you have wanted to bring the cognitive processes into your work, you know the challenge: there has not been an instrument designed to do it.
Type Dynamics changes that. The assessment handles the measurement. The report introduces the framework in language your participants can use. You bring the expertise. The instrument brings the structure. That combination means your clients do not just learn their type code. They learn how their mind works.
WHO THIS IS FOR
Practitioners Who Believe Type Has More to Offer
You have seen what the four letters can do. You have also seen where they stop.
Type Dynamics gives you language for the patterns underneath the code.
Type Dynamics gives you language for the patterns underneath the code.
You want to introduce the cognitive processes without building the curriculum yourself.
The 13-page report is designed to be your workshop handout. The teaching is built in.
The 13-page report is designed to be your workshop handout. The teaching is built in.
You need an instrument that matches the sophistication of your conversations.
Type Dynamics gives your clients a framework they can return to and build on.
Type Dynamics gives your clients a framework they can return to and build on.
You already know the cognitive processes matter. You have just never had an instrument that puts them into the participant experience.
Now you do.
Now you do.
THE BIGGER PICTURE
Beneath Every Type Code Is a System in Motion.
Practitioners who understand the cognitive processes deserve an instrument that brings that understanding to their clients. The four letters are a shorthand. Underneath them is a dynamic pattern that shapes how a person perceives, decides, and engages with the world. Most instruments never reveal that pattern, so the practitioner is left translating the framework without instrument support. The depth stays in the practitioner’s head. The participant gets a description. And the conversation that could go deepest never gets started.
Type Dynamics was built for that conversation. When your clients see the system beneath their type, they stop asking “what am I?” and start asking “how do I work?” You stop being the practitioner who explains type. You become the one who opens the door to development work that was never possible with the four letters alone.
Key Features of the Core Factors Type Dynamics Assessment
132 Assessment Questions
The core 52 questions from Type Discovery plus 80 additional questions (10 per cognitive process) specifically designed to measure access to each of the eight Jungian cognitive processes. Optional Type Precision Module available.
Differential Intensity Weighting
Captures both direction and intensity of each preference. Participants indicate how strongly a response matches their experience, producing a more individualized result.
Non-Forced-Choice Format
A neutral response option is available, eliminating measurement errors common in traditional forced-choice Jungian assessments.
Type Precision Module
When preferences are unclear, targeted follow-up items clarify the result. In ambiguous cases, produces a secondary “also read” type.
13-Page Participant Report
A structured workbook introducing the dynamics of personality type, explaining all eight cognitive processes, covering perception and judgment, then delivering the participant’s type code and cognitive process pattern. Includes all 16 type arrangements.
Practitioner Report
A separate report with detailed numeric scores for dichotomy scales and 8-Process scores. Enables practitioners to enhance feedback using cognitive process data.
Developed by Mark Majors, PhD
Mark Majors spent a decade inside the institutions that shaped psychological type measurement. He did the data analysis for the MBTI Form M revision at CPP, led the development of IRT scoring for the MBTI, co-authored the Form Q, headed the Step III research project at CAPT where he served as Director of Research, and wrote the scoring routine for the 1994 Strong Interest Inventory. He is a recipient of the APTi Innovation Award.
Through that work, he identified problems that classical measurement could not solve. Forced-choice formats produce artificial results for people whose preferences are not clear-cut. Population-level norms obscure individual differences. And no instrument was assessing the eight Jungian cognitive processes or the barriers that block natural personality expression. His response, developed over more than 25 years: a non-forced-choice format, Differential Intensity Weighting, a Type Precision Module, and the first assessments to measure both the eight cognitive processes and Personality Formation. Dr. Majors holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and Multicultural Studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Download his report Why Does the Personality Instrument Matter?
GET STARTED WITH PRO ACCESS
Three Steps to Start Using Type Dynamics
- Step 2
Schedule Your Onboarding Call
Once approved, you schedule a 30-minute call with your dedicated success manager to walk through the platform and review the accreditation process.
- Step 3
Meet Qualification Requirements
Professional administration of Type Dynamics requires the Type Discovery assessment manual and one of the following: relevant university coursework in psychological or educational measurement, current MBTI qualification or certification, or completion of the Core Factors qualifying requirements. Once qualified, the assessment is activated in your Pro Account.
FREE DOWNLOAD
Download Why Does the Personality Instrument Matter?
Why Does the Personality Instrument Matter? by Mark S. Majors, PhD, delves into the significance of psychological assessments in facilitating self-discovery and personal growth. It highlights the critical role of psychometric properties, such as reliability and validity, in ensuring the effectiveness of personality instruments. The work emphasizes that these tools are not meant to judge an individual’s worth but to aid in better understanding oneself, fostering personal development, and enhancing interpersonal relationships.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Core Factors Type Dynamics assessment introduces psychological type through the lens of the eight cognitive processes, offering a deeper and more accurate representation of the type code.
Type Dynamics measures four perception processes (External Sensing/Se, Internal Sensing/Si, External Intuiting/Ne, Internal Intuiting/Ni) and four judgment processes (External Thinking/Te, Internal Thinking/Ti, External Feeling/Fe, Internal Feeling/Fi). Each person relies most on two primary processes while the others influence behavior in different ways.
Type Dynamics presents each personality type as a pattern of eight cognitive processes arranged in a specific hierarchy. The report shows both primary processes (1st through 4th, operating more consciously) and shadow processes (5th through 8th, operating more unconsciously). This reveals not just what type someone is, but how that type functions.
Type Dynamics is designed for professional type practitioners: coaches, facilitators, counselors, and organizational consultants who want to introduce the psychological type code as it was originally intended. It serves those who want to apply psychological type in a deeper, more meaningful way that goes beyond static labels.
Dr. Mark S. Majors is a distinguished expert in psychological assessment with a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and Multicultural Studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His extensive experience includes work with MBTI instruments, and he developed the entire Core Factors suite, including Type Discovery, Type Elements, and Type Dynamics.
Type Dynamics is grounded in Carl Gustav Jung’s 1921 theory of psychological types, describing innate psychological characteristics expressed in everyday thoughts and actions. It also builds on the framework developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother Katharine Briggs, who created the four-letter type code to help identify Jung’s described personality types.
Type Dynamics uses the core 52 primary questions of Type Discovery plus an additional 80 questions specifically designed for the eight processes, along with an optional Type Precision Module. Completion time is similar to other comprehensive type assessments.
The 13-page report provides an introduction to psychological type through the lens of the eight cognitive processes, reported scores, a descriptive overview of the identified type, and brief summaries of the 16 personality types. It presents type as a dynamic system of cognitive processes rather than static letter preferences.
Type Dynamics supports introducing clients to psychological type through its original design, helping leaders understand how preferred processes affect decision-making and leadership style, guiding coaching and counseling conversations with greater insight into perception and judgment patterns, and supporting team development by highlighting how different cognitive processes influence group dynamics.
Yes. Type Dynamics identifies the same 16 types measured by MBTI and other Jungian type instruments. It expands understanding by exploring the full process pattern behind the type code, making it a natural extension for those trained in MBTI-based tools.
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