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The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves (edit title)

Annie Murphy Paul (Author) (edit contributors)

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Millions of Americans take personality tests each year: to get a job, to pursue an education, to settle a legal dispute, to better understand themselves and others. But where did these tests come from, and what are they saying about us? In The Cult of Personality, award-winning psychology... read more

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On July 16, 1849, a young man arrived at the offices of Fowler & Wells on Nassau Street in Lower Manhattan.

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  1. Annie Murphy Paul (Author)
 

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