The invention relates to the fields of psychophysiology, psychology, sociology, pedagogy and medicine, and may be used in conducting individual and large-scale studies in the fields of psychophysiology, psychology, sociology, pedagogy, medicine, recruiting and career counseling for determining a person's psychological personality type and also, on the basis of same, for evaluating psychophysiological and psychological compatibility. The novelty of the invention consists in determining, across a broad range of ages and without using questionnaire tests, a psychological personality type on the basis of objective data regarding the characteristics of a person's nervous system.