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Personality Junkie has a new article up regarding using your typological aversions to help type yourself.

Best to first read

The Type Dynamics of Acceptance/Aversion


The basic rule for determining the degree to which a given personality type will embrace or reject a given psychological function is as follows: The higher the function is positioned in the functional stack, the more likely we are to trust and embrace it. The lower a function is in the stack, the more apt we are to be wary of it or find ourselves at war with it.
Typically, we describe the functional stack as being comprised of four functions, namely, the dominant, auxiliary, tertiary, and inferior function.
Type Aversions as an Aid to Self-Typing

NPs (ENTPs, ENFPs, INTPs, INFPs): Se is the seventh or eighth function for NP types. INPs, in particular, are likely to see Se as excessive, exploitive, and wasteful. NPs prefer to creatively (Ne) use and recycle existing resources (Si) rather than disposing of old and buying new.

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TPs: Fi is the seventh or eighth function for TP types. TPs often take little interest in Fi causes (e.g., animal rights, special education). NTPs, who use Si rather than Se, may experience a particularly strong aversion to Fi causes that place inordinate demands on public resources (e.g., high dollar research / treatments for rare diseases). In sum, TPs often lack strong concern for or a willingness to help specific individuals or causes that deviate significantly from Fe norms.

 

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SPs (ESTPs, ESFP, ISTPs, ISFPs): Ne is the seventh or eighth function for SP types. ESPs, in particular, are oriented to concrete happenings and tend to prefer down-to-earth discussions. The open-ended, freethinking ways of Ne can be unsettling to SPs’ more convergent, Ni worldview. SPs therefore tend to resist the hypothetical, speculative, and skeptical ways of Ne whenever possible.


No wonder I can't talk to my ISTP and ESTP brothers. My ESTP brother often seems suspicious of me, in fact. I'm often suspicious of him. Additionally, he often tells me that he has no idea what I'm talking about whenever I start speaking theoretically or philosophically. Hell, we attend the same school and often ignore each other. I strongly dislike being around either of my brothers.
 

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No wonder I can't talk to my ISTP and ESTP brothers. My ESTP brother often seems suspicious of me, in fact. I'm often suspicious of him. Additionally, he often tells me that he has no idea what I'm talking about whenever I start speaking theoretically or philosophically. Hell, we attend the same school and often ignore each other. I strongly dislike being around either of my brothers.

I don't think too many people love their brothers if they spend a lot of time with them. I have waged wars against my ENFJ brother so terrifying that I get frightened of myself.

I actually have this IXTP problem right there. I love to speculate for the hell of it. I could see trends and what not but I would almost never put my money on it.But I would never put my money on what I am being told either. I generally see speculation as a toy rather than a trustworthy tool sort of like the sensors gossip.

But I can see the full on sensory thing in my daily life, I point out something and I always get responses from others 'so what? what do we do ?' and I am like, ' I don't know, isn't it funny it's like that?'.

Great resource! Funny how my desire to rebuild an old car is Ne rather than Se. I am using old resources.
 

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My brother is an ISTP who had an enormous positive influence on my life and who I love, but yeah, he could care less about my theoretical interests and focus.
 

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NPs (ENTPs, ENFPs, INTPs, INFPs): Se is the seventh or eighth function for NP types. INPs, in particular, are likely to see Se as excessive, exploitive, and wasteful. NPs prefer to creatively (Ne) use and recycle existing resources (Si) rather than disposing of old and buying new.

NJs (ENTJs, ENFJs, INTJs, INFJs): Si is the seventh or eighth function for NJ types. NJs tend to roll their eyes at the conservative, penny-pinching ways of Si. NJs are generally not opposed to paying more money for high quality goods and services. It can also feel unnatural for NJs to focus on their physical health (Si) since they often feel out of touch with their own bodies. This is to say nothing of NJs’ resistance to the traditional or conventional practices/ worldviews commonly held by SJ types.
wow, this is the difference between me and my INTJ friend...
also, this is a great blog but i forgot it existed...gonna go read the new posts now :)
 

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I think the ideas expressed in this site is great in terms of accuracy, but, as with most sources, not in precision. While it's true that functions contributes significantly(although it varies per trait) to such tendencies, the problem with generalizations on the whole and this is sort of obvious is that it does not account for all possibilities. There will always be some circumstance and/or perspective that halts a person from relating to one or many generalizations, as well as some circumstance and/or perspective that allow a person to relate regardless of not being said type. For example, we are not necessarily "more wary" when the function is lower. It's ok as a generalization, but it depends on the situation, the development and the condition of the person. Sometimes we are even less wary of it that as Inferior Fe types we act without consideration of social norms leaving more dominant Fe-types in shock. (or perhaps that's due to to having an undeveloped Fe.) I do appreciate how the author always write words that express the uncertainty such as "likely" "often", "may" etc. Anyways, in those mixture of perspective and scenario lies the importance of precision. Relative to other sources however, I think it's way more accurate. Focusing on the relation between the four main functions with the "other" functions, how Ne types perceive Se types for example, specifically helps precision in typing.
 

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And I still can't work out if I am an INFP or an INTP either way my inferior function is trapping me. (although I am probably just an INTP that wishes he was an INFP and has confirmation bias all the time)
 

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SPs therefore tend to resist the hypothetical, speculative, and skeptical ways of Ne whenever possible.

Truer words were never spoken. I have an unrivaled ability to impel an ESFP I know to dive headlong out the window whenever I indulge in too many Ne conjectures and convoluted Ti theories. She wants the unvarnished facts but I can't help myself. :o

FPs, especially IFPs, can struggle with TPs’ relative lack of concern and compassion for the objects of their Fi affection.

This gets me into trouble with the same ESFP. :slashnew:

Activate Fe! *Low battery* :phear:
 

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It's so funny to me that seemingly all XNTPs appreciate and circle around the same resources - they also seem to draw similar conclusions. I show an outsider and it's all stares, then stairs. I can't seem to catch those buggers. *Smacks Fe-o-matic* :smoker:
 
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