# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-keirsey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:33:40.411Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-keirsey"
name: "David Keirsey"
slug: "david-keirsey"
description: "David West Keirsey was an American psychologist, a professor emeritus at California State University, Fullerton, and the author of several books. In his most popular publications, Please Understand Me and the revised and expanded second volume Please Understand Me II (1998), he laid out a self-assessed personality questionnaire, known as the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, which links human behavioral patterns to four temperaments and sixteen character types. Both volumes of Please Understand Me contain the questionnaire for type evaluation with detailed portraits and a systematic treatment of descriptions of temperament traits and personality characteristics. With a focus on conflict management and cooperation, Keirsey specialized in family and partnership counseling and the coaching of children and adults."
tagline: "American psychologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_west_keirsey.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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birthDate: "1921-08-31"
deathDate: "2013-07-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Кейрси, Дэвид"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump