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Might your personality affect how you move? Runners classified as Myers-Briggs "Sensing" types have a more grounded running style in experiments than those classified as "Intuition" types

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Mind to move: Differences in running biomechanics between sensing and intuition shod runners

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Personality affects how you move. Runners classified as Myers-Briggs "Sensing" types have a more grounded running style than those classified as "Intuition" types. Conversely, “Intuition” runners have a more dynamic and elastic running style than “Sensing” runners.

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Might your personality affect how you move? Runners classified as Myers-Briggs "Sensing" types have a more grounded running style in experiments than those classified as "Intuition" types

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0300108

Article Title: Mind to move: Differences in running biomechanics between sensing and intuition shod runners

Author Countries: France, Switzerland, Belgium

Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.


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