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Oldham and Morris

Dr. John M. Oldham and Lois B. Morris define 14 personality styles which they derive from 14 corresponding personality disorders, and describe the styles' normal patterns of thinking, feeling, and behavior in each of six domains.

The Typology

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a clash of human temperaments. Undignified as such a treatment may seem to some of my colleagues, I shall have to take account of this clash and explain a good many of the divergencies of philosophers by it. Of whatever temperament a professional philosopher is, he tries when philosophizing to sink the fact of his temperament. Temperament is no conventionally recognized reason, so he urges impersonal reasons only for his conclusions. Yet his temperament really gives him a stronger bias than any of his more strictly objective premises.