Emotions

[Dimensional Transition]

According to the test, INTPs tend to be unemotional and find it hard to describe them etc...

Now I've been wondering, do ALL INTPs have this, or are there exceptions? How do you feel towards emotions?
Because I feel like I fit completely in the description of an INTP, including feeling socially uncomfortable, being a bit of a dreamer, being disorganized, interest in scientific subjects and such, but I'm definitely not unemotional. And I think emotions aren't that hard to describe for me, ignoring the fact that they'll always be a bit 'hard to describe' because they probably feel a little different for everyone. I don't have a lot of trouble with other people, besides that they sometimes won't care/understand what I talk about and think I'm a little strange or typical.

On a side note: Is there a danger in adjusting yourself to completely fit a certain personality type? I feel like that'd be a very easy thing to fall into...

(excuse me if this is in the wrong forum)

 

[Deridaburi]

For me I know I have very real emotions, but I very rarely understand them, recognize them, or express them. Most of the time I just block out my emotions.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

On a side note: Is there a danger in adjusting yourself to completely fit a certain personality type? I feel like that'd be a very easy thing to fall into...

(excuse me if this is in the wrong forum)

Yes, it is detrimental to your psychological health, and no I don't think it is easy. The best way to develop your Fe is to open yourself to more displays of Fi.

I'm not unemotional, I just don't express myself. I feel displays of emotion causes a stigma to be placed upon your person and I don't like people to think of me other than I am. I hate assumptions.

 

[Fukyo]

You may find this interesting.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

I see... In that way I think my Fe isn't extremely underdeveloped. I find that it helps when I share my emotions with others. Of course only in my friends-circle. Outside of that I will try and show no negative emotions at all of course.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

You may find this interesting.

Oh wow, it's very interesting.
Especially the part about 'cute' things sounds very familiar. Big yellow smileys and happy puppies etc. tend to make me feel very sick... They feel so fake.

 

[Deridaburi]

I see... In that way I think my Fe isn't extremely underdeveloped. I find that it helps when I share my emotions with others. Of course only in my friends-circle. Outside of that I will try and show no negative emotions at all of course.

I do the same.

 

[Dormouse]

When people claim they have no or very few emotions, as INTPs here are occasionally apt to do, I generally disbelieve them. (Apparently this is projection. Boo hoo.)

I think, developmentally, there is a wide range of emotional awareness and ease of expression available to INTPs.

Yes, it is detrimental to your psychological health, and no I don't think it is easy.

It can be detrimental, but in some ways we are constantly shaping ourselves through introspection. The real danger comes from injecting the perception others have of you into your own personality. It's a thing that happens easily, as for some reason we tend to believe we are what others tell us.

This is why fortune-tellers get away with those vague personality readings and such. Also stuff.

 

[Jesse]

I feel emotions. I just don't express them much and have a habit of over analyzing them. I am always questioning whether what I feel is right at a particular time. On the outside I always look calm and if a movie tugs out my heart strings I block it out quickly although sometimes they slip through.

 

[The Gopher]

hey Fukyo that was a good link.

 

[echoplex]

I think the claim that INTPs/Ts 'tend to be unemotional' is total bullshit. Perhaps it would be accurate to say they 'tend to appear unemotional' but even that isn't reliable imo. I think it's more accurate to say INTPs tend to be uncomfortable expressing emotions, but then the same could be said of people of other types. Fe doesn't exactly = emotions anyway.

I know that I'm always a song away from becoming very emotional. I often have to purposely shift perspective entirely just to pull myself together so I can focus on whatever. Of course, if you were to meet me, you might consider me unemotional because I hardly ever cry or talk about feelings, and if I do they're likely feelings I've stopped feeling for awhile. I find that I need time before I'll even consider putting them into words.

On a side note: Is there a danger in adjusting yourself to completely fit a certain personality type? I feel like that'd be a very easy thing to fall into...

I think so, though I wouldn't necessarily consider it a 'bad' thing, at least not entirely. It seems the best aim of typology is to examine and accurately describe what's already there, so in light of that, yeah it'd be a potential detriment to understanding yourself to try and copy an idea of what you think a type is supposed to be (not to mention you think you're that type, you could be wrong). If your (strict) idea of what that type is were correct, then you'd have to have already been that way to 'qualify', and if your idea were wrong, then clearly there's no need to 'fit' into that mold, because it's the wrong mold.

I say it's not necessarily 'bad' because I think there may be value in 'playing' with various personae. It can be fun, and you can learn alot about yourself in the process, as well as develop your weaker spots. I imagine many mistyped people (probably myself) receive this 'benefit' without knowing it, not to suggest being mistyped is a positive thing in itself. It's preferable to play when you know you're playing.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

Hmm, this is fun to read. Basically, the claim of INTPs being unemotional is false, it should be worded in a different way. Everybody here has emotions. The link Fukyo gave explains most of this yeah.
And yeah, the side-note... So it's possible, but not necessarily a bad thing, as long as it's also possible to be reversed it seems.