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brain lateralization
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I believe such (self-assessing) tests are balderdash. The only way to get actual results would be brain monitoring.
"I'm creative" (an example of stereotyped associations with the "right-brain"). What exactly "creative" is and how manifests is not simple to pinpoint. Assuming it is for a moment, just because one may identify with it does not mean that one is so - it is more than possible that one simply likes the idea of being creative.
"I'm creative" (an example of stereotyped associations with the "right-brain"). What exactly "creative" is and how manifests is not simple to pinpoint. Assuming it is for a moment, just because one may identify with it does not mean that one is so - it is more than possible that one simply likes the idea of being creative.
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neither and both. my personality is probably closer to left brain - rational, objective, analytical - but some facets of right brain are applicable as well - intuitive, holistic, subjective. although tests show equal distribution of traits, my right brain is ancillary perhaps only because it is consciously used less and, hence, honed less. spectrums like nature/nurture and left brain/right brain are confounding to me because life is complicated and messy and few things belong on a spectrum - especially a categorical one. this might be hypocritical posting on an intp forum, thats okay.
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I'm about 60% left and 40% right on most tests.
DesertSmeagle
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You can always be both. I have to have proof for shit, and i cant make a fuckin decision unless i know ALL the facts about something, but i also love music and art. I guess it all depends on which one you use more in your life.
TruthSeeker
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I don't think that's what left brain/right brain means. I think the left brain deals with "stage-based" thinking and the right brain with "holistic thinking". So the left brain is associated with J's and the right brain with P's. That's what Thomson says, at least (though that is one of her more contested points). So an INTP would be right-brained, according to her.
Being right-brained doesn't mean being into music and art per se. Or vice versa.
SpaceYeti
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I'm an INTP and majorly left brained.
Edit; Though a test I just took corrected me. I'm apparently right brained on more items than I am left, but I'm VERY left brained on the lefts.
TruthSeeker
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What were you very left-brained on? I find a lot of the internet tests are confused as well. They tend to associate "logic" with the left brain, for instance, which is not true 100% of the time.
SpaceYeti
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That, and... whatever helps you write... I forget the term.
avanover
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I'm middle-brained.
Yasmin
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The idea of left brain, right brain has always been mysterious to me.
Whenever someone talks about left brain, they all but describe the judging function of thinking, when they describe right brained people, all I think is intuition. So wouldn't that suggest that all INTPs, ENTPS, INTJS, and ENTJs, are both.
And then, where do we put sensing and feeling types?
The whole theory of right/left brains is just too simple for me. I'm not saying it's completely false, it's just underdeveloped, and too specific.
It needs work, is all.
Whenever someone talks about left brain, they all but describe the judging function of thinking, when they describe right brained people, all I think is intuition. So wouldn't that suggest that all INTPs, ENTPS, INTJS, and ENTJs, are both.
And then, where do we put sensing and feeling types?
The whole theory of right/left brains is just too simple for me. I'm not saying it's completely false, it's just underdeveloped, and too specific.
It needs work, is all.
TruthSeeker
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Yeah, when people think "right brain" they think NF (and thus conflate the two), when people think "left brain", they think T. So if you have a bit of both, you don't have a brain lateralization? Considering the corpus callosum(sp?) divides the brain up neatly, I'm not sure that's likely (though I sure wish it was...just like I wish it was possible to be more than one personality type). Right now, I honestly think Thomson has the best reconciliation of the two theories.
Razare
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I scored dead even, right and left. This is very consistent with other testing I have done concerning the brain, like whether I am male or female brained. I lean slightly female, while utilizing both sides of my brain, really.
I think that's common for an INFJ because if you look at the areas of the brain we activate, much of our brain gets stimulated. It takes us a while to think through something as a result because we can look at it in two different lights, Fe or Ti. Figuring out how to resolve the two differing methods of decision making is difficult for me.
I think that's common for an INFJ because if you look at the areas of the brain we activate, much of our brain gets stimulated. It takes us a while to think through something as a result because we can look at it in two different lights, Fe or Ti. Figuring out how to resolve the two differing methods of decision making is difficult for me.
avanover
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I'm actually ambidextrous but I was right-handed from birth.
Architectonic
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The right side of my skull bulges more than the left, so...
Wait, this is a trick question isn't it?
Wait, this is a trick question isn't it?