The theory of temperament styles can be traced back from Ancient Greece, when Hippocrates developed a personality assessment using four titles; these are Choleric, Pleghmatic, Sanguine, amd Melancholy.
Later on, David Keirsey adopted this theory and changed the four titles. After studying his work, Dr. Steve Montgomery later on improved Keirsey's work and developed the temperament matrix. Eventually, Linda Berens also adopted, and integrated them to the interaction styles. They are now called:
1. The Stabilizers (SJ Types)
People who abide by social conventions and traditions.
They long to have a place in the community
Has a deep connection with the past and lives life through the laws developed in it.
Talk more about their personal experiences
Are usually lawyers, professors, or affiliated to jobs that requires team work.
Arguably fill 40% of the population
Has a good sense of self consciousness and a good memory
Duty-based and live interdependently
2. The Improvisers (SP Types)
People who creatively invent machines and tools that ease daily physical work
The tools they use could be external objects or their own bodies
Are usually singers, mechanics, athletes, musicians, painters, sculptors or craftsmen, plumbers, handymen, car repair personnel, dancers, seafarers, and the like.
Questions rules and traditions
They talk about the experiences of other people
All about their performance and the experiences they give to people
Arguably 30% percent of the population
Have a good sense of reaction time and looking at the physical reality in order to solve problems
Lives independently, wants to be not bound by authorities
3. The Catalysts (NF) Types
People that envision change for humanity
Leads the team in a new frame of mindset; peolple that lay the foundation of new social orders
Ideas are always for the benefit of the society or the person's psyche, which, as a result, puts them more into focusing on social sciences
Are mostly leaders in politics, writers, spiritual organizations and anything that involves inspiring social change
Arguably 17% of the population
Affiliative by nature, they seek to follow social conventions and are careful not to break them
Live interdependently, although, because of how few they are, people may sometimes discriminate them
They look into the future and not really focusing on the current and past happenings
They talk about theories of morality and philosophy more so than daily lives and objects
4. The Theorists (NT Types)
They envision change in the community, but, it is in the way of inventions and tools that can make people's lives easier
Are pragmatists by nature, which causes them to break certain rules and ignore authorities just to achieve the goal they envisioned
Focus on developing technology and analyzing humanitarian systems and structures in order to engineer in and improvise it in an abstract way; creating a blueprint for a new system of living.
Are mostly scientists, architects, engineers, computer science and technology experts
Arguably 13% of the population
They are future thinkers, focusing more on the 'what if's more than the 'what is's.
They live life indipendently and prefer to make their own rules.
Because they are a lot fewer than the others, they become identified as deviant and discriminated as most people cannot undertand their abstract nature.
