Personality type versus behavior

People think that personality and behavior are the same things, but it isn’t true. Personality is what you are and behavior is what you do, so sometimes we behave and think different.
Personality type refers to the psychological classification of different types of individuals. Carl Jung categorized people into primary types of psychological functions. He proposed two pairs of cognitive functions: rational (judging) functions: thinking and feeling and irrational (perceiving) functions: sensing and intuition. So he distinguished four basic functions: sensation, intuition, thinking, and feeling. Also Jung distinguished several attitude types: extravert and introvert. Extraverts are action oriented, prefer more frequent interaction, spend time with others, while introverts are thought oriented, and prefer more substantial interaction, like to spend time alone. So Jung distinguished eight psychological types operating functions (thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuition) with attitude types (extravert, introvert). He classified psychological types like: extraverted sensation, introverted sensation, extraverted intuition, introverted intuition, extraverted thinking, introverted thinking, extraverted feeling, and introverted feeling. Then we talk about behavior it can be said that humans evaluate the acceptability of behavior using social norms and regulate behavior by means of social control. So for example, you are tend to be introvert, you like be alone, but you need go to university, sometimes you go to a place where are a lot of people, so you behave different from your attitudes. So like we can see, our behavior differs from our attitudes and our personality because social norms and control influences our behavior.
To summarize it can be said that personality and behavior differs because social norms and environment influence our behavior. So if we are tend to be introverts it doesn’t mean that we won’t act like extraverts.


Refrences:
Jung, C.G. ([1921] 1971). Psychological Types, Collected Works, Volume 6, Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton University
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/behaviour