Personality: Theories & Types
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Under the Type Approach to personality, apart from the introvert and extrovert classification proposed by Carl Jung, Eduard Spranger proposed six types of personality based on human values. If a person always considers beauty, artistic creations, creativity, and the form of nature as paramount in their life and looks at every object from an artistic perspective, under which value type will they fall according to Spranger's classification?
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German philosopher and psychologist Eduard Spranger, in his famous book 'Types of Men', divided personality into six major types based on cultural and social values: Theoretical, Economic, Aesthetic, Social, Political, and Religious. Individuals with aesthetic values are worshippers of art, form, symmetry, creativity, and beauty.
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