Different Strokes for Different Folks: Jung’s Typology and Structured Experiences

The purpose of this study was to examine and compare the evaluations of 175 students differentiated by Carl Jung’s psychotypology when they were involved in either a session of nonverbal communication experiences or a session of fantasy experiences. The significant findings were as follows: intuitive types preferred the two experiences more than the thinking types; extraverts preferred the two experiences more than the introverts; and the feeling types preferred the nonverbal communication experiences more than the fantasy experiences. Thus, it seems evident that some of the Jungian psychological types prefer different structured experiences. The typology of Jung (1976) was used in this study to differentiate the &dquo;different&dquo; folks. Although there are many personality theorists who have schematized psychotypologies (Freud, 1920; Reich, 1949; Sheldon, 1970), Jung’s typology was employed because it has been widely researched and can be easily measured (Myers-Briggs, 1962). Two sets of structured experiences were used to provide the differ-ent &dquo;strokes.&dquo; One set utilized fantasy, and the other employed non-verbal communication. Although other kinds of activities could have been used (e.g., lecture, psychodrama, or values clarification), these were selected because they receive widespread use and are suffi-ciently different. The objective of this study was to demonstrate that the different psychological types described by Jung would prefer different struc-tured experiences