On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:20:14 -0800, Annette Taylor wrote: >Have any of you heard of either the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument® >(HBDI®) or Whole Brain® Thinking? This sounds like more megabuck psychobabble >that is bleeding businesses and individuals without any evidence to back it >up. >You can google if you haven't heard about it but I just can't find any >critiques.
I hadn't heard about it before but googling does reveal a Wikipedia entry that provides a description and some critiques; see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrmann_Brain_Dominance_Instrument The HBDI is not exactly new. There apparently had been studies using it back in the 1980s, such as: DeWald, R. E. (1989). Relationships of MBTI types and HBDI preferences in a population of student program managers (Doctoral dissertation, Western Michigan University, 1989). Dissertation Abstracts International, 50(06), 2657B. (University Microfilms No. AAC89-21867) Krause, M. G. (1987, June). A comparison of the MBTI and the Herrmann Participant Survey. Handout from presentation at APT-VII, the Seventh Biennial International Conference of the Association for Psychological Type, Gainesville, FL Terence Hines appears to have been a a critic of the theory and several of his publications are listed on the Wikipedia entry identified above. Hines has a Wikipedia entry too but it is very brief and somewhat misleading. Hines is a psychologist at Pace University (Westchester campus) and has been active in the skeptics community with publications on a variety of topics. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=6880 or send a blank email to leave-6880-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
