3 Sep 2025

Explainer: What's behind personality types A & B and are they still relevant?

From Nights, 8:20 pm on 3 September 2025

How would you describe your personality?

Are you the typical Type A? Competitive, stressed and always aiming for perfection? Or Type B? Relaxed, creative and chilled. These personality classifications first emerged in the fifties.

So how relevant are they today and what about the lesser used Type C personality? 

Psychologist Cailin Jordan joins Emile Donovan.

Silhouette of male person against a colorful horizon.

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