Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) scores were correlated with the Human Information Processing Survey (Taggart and Torrance, 1984) scales designed to measure brain hemisphere dominance to test the hypothesis that SN and JP scales of the MBTI are indicators of brain dominance. Correlations were in the expected directions, providing evidence of convergent and discriminant criteria of construct validity. A possible moderator effect involving gender was discovered, with significantly higher correlations occurring for females than for males.
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