Another one of those personality type tests. I quite like this one.

My results: ENFP (Extrovert - 61%; iNtuitive - 55%; Feeling - 85%; Perceiving - 68%)




Take the test here. In-depth look at each type here.

Your personality type is INFJ.

Introverted (I) 71% Extraverted (E) 29%
Intuitive (N) 55% Sensing (S) 45%
Feeling (F) 55% Thinking (T) 45%
Judging (J) 59% Perceiving (P) 41%




Myers-Briggs characteristics
According to Myers-Briggs, INFJs are conscientious and value-driven. They seek meaning in relationships, ideas, and events, with an eye toward better understanding themselves and others. Using their intuitive skills, they develop a clear vision, which they then execute decisively to better the lives of others. Like their INTJ counterparts, INFJs regard problems as opportunities for them to design and implement creative solutions.


Keirsey characteristics
According to Keirsey,INFJ Counselors are quiet, private individuals who prefer to exercise their influence behind the scenes. Intensely interested in the well-being of others, Counselors prefer one-on-one relationships to large groups. Sensitive and complex, they are adept at understanding complicated issues and driven to resolve differences in a cooperative and creative manner.

Accounting for about one percent of the population according to some studies (albeit not all), Counselors have a vivid inner life that they may be reluctant to share with those around them. Perceptive of the emotions of others, Counselors are themselves easily hurt, though they may not reveal this except to their closest companions.

INFJs are affable people. They are generally well-liked by their peers and are thought of as close friends and confidants by most other types. It is difficult for INFJs to let their guard down, which in turn makes it difficult for them to establish close relationships with strangers and new people. According to Keirsey,[citation needed] INFJs are magnetically drawn to the ESTP and especially to the ENTP personality types because they see their complement in these types. The INFJ and ENTP might not get along as friends because of the INFJ's more pronounced sensitivity, but they may be a good match for intimate relationships because of the ENTP's willingness to be sensitive and concede their stubborn ways to the INFJ in relationships. As with other personality types, INFJs can be compatible with a number of different types.


Characteristics described in other sources
A list of basic characteristics

sensitive,
quiet leaders,
great depth of personality - intricately and deeply woven, mysterious, and highly complex, sometimes puzzling even to themselves
introverted
abstract in communicating
live in a world of hidden meanings and possibilities - part of an unusually rich inner life
artistic (and natural affinity for art), creative, and easily inspired
very independent
orderly view towards the world but within themself arranged in a chaotic, complex way only they could understand


Famous INFJs

Nathan, prophet of Israel
Aristophanes
Chaucer
Goethe
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Fred McMurray (My Three Sons)
Shirley Temple Black, child actor, ambassador
Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, martyr
James Reston, newspaper reporter
Shirley McClain (Sweet Charity, ...)
Piers Anthony, author ("Xanth" series)
Michael Landon (Little House on the Prairie)
Tom Selleck
John Katz, critic, author
Paul Stookey (Peter, Paul and Mary)
U. S. Senator Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL)
Billy Crystal
Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury)
Nelson Mandela
Mel Gibson
Carrie Fisher
Nicole Kidman
Jerry Seinfeld

No it isn't, this is just the Myers-Brigg again. You people post this like every three months! Get a new test god damn it!

Test Results
Your personality type is INTP.

Introverted (I) 68% Extraverted (E) 32%
Intuitive (N) 68% Sensing (S) 32%
Thinking (T) 65% Feeling (F) 35%
Perceiving (P) 77% Judging (J) 23%

wow... I match mccain. can't get the links to descriptions to work.

It's not like you can do a DSM-IV or Rorschach test online, bitch! Quit whining!

PS - do they have a DSM-V now?

You're the guy, why don't you find a good one?

found it through karen's link -


pretty accurate.

True but there are other ones out there. The NEO test is far better and actually empirically based.



Not yet. 2012 i believe. It sounds like it will be radically different which should really change the field.



Here, Play with this one. It probably isn't perfect but better and different than what we usually do.

nice test, but the interpretation of the results don't give much to work with, and If I'm going to have to come to you to interpret them, I think I'm better off on my own! Smarty-pants!

You better watch your disrespectful tone or i will release those pictures i have of you. You won't be able to run away from it this time, you sick f*ck.

INTJ. I'm always INTJ. Everything is strong except introversion, which is very mild. So I guess I'm E/INTJ.

That's a lie!
My test is better than yours.

Well its about f*cking time...

In high school, I wanted to be a shrink, until I researched it and realized they were using an old standard to pump improperly tested drugs that changed peoples brain chemistry.

I have a question for you...
If the main standard for the field is about to be drasticly changed, don't you feel like your wasting your money at school studying the old one?

Well what would be changing is the way psychopathological disorders are classified, which should help in diagnosis and in making sure that more people with a disorder are meeting the criteria. The current system is all or nothing. If you have four symptoms you are fine but if you have five, you have a serious disorder. They are moving towards degrees of disorders and may classify them in a spectrum system. So instead of having OCD and anorexia as an anxiety disorder and an eating disorder, since they have the same basic features (obsession and compulsion) they might be in the same classification, instead of seen as totally unrelated.

As for the question of me wasting my time, i have to say no. I'm not learning how to use a DSM IV right now and even if a lot of things change, i am sure the info i am getting right now is not being to be totally useless in four years. Really it should only affect one field of psychology and the rest will remain unchanged. If i go to grad school, i may have to spend a little bit of time getting updates on the new system (i would still be in grad school in 2012) but this isn't all for nothing just because of an update in a book. I mean textbooks are updated all the time, i don't feel like the stuff i learned six years ago was all worthless.

Test Results

Your personality type is INTP.
Introverted (I) 89% Extraverted (E) 11%
Intuitive (N) 73% Sensing (S) 27%
Thinking (T) 55% Feeling (F) 45%
Perceiving (P) 73% Judging (J) 27%

Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving
by Joe Butt

Profile: INTP
Revision: 3.0
Date of Revision: 27 Feb 2005

INTPs are pensive, analytical folks. They may venture so deeply into thought as to seem detached, and often actually are oblivious to the world around them.

Precise about their descriptions, INTPs will often correct others (or be sorely tempted to) if the shade of meaning is a bit off. While annoying to the less concise, this fine discrimination ability gives INTPs so inclined a natural advantage as, for example, grammarians and linguists.

INTPs are relatively easy-going and amenable to almost anything until their principles are violated, about which they may become outspoken and inflexible. They prefer to return, however, to a reserved albeit benign ambiance, not wishing to make spectacles of themselves.

A major concern for INTPs is the haunting sense of impending failure. They spend considerable time second-guessing themselves. The open-endedness (from Perceiving) conjoined with the need for competence (NT) is expressed in a sense that one's conclusion may well be met by an equally plausible alternative solution, and that, after all, one may very well have overlooked some critical bit of data. An INTP arguing a point may very well be trying to convince himself as much as his opposition. In this way INTPs are markedly different from INTJs, who are much more confident in their competence and willing to act on their convictions.

Mathematics is a system where many INTPs love to play, similarly languages, computer systems--potentially any complex system. INTPs thrive on systems. Understanding, exploring, mastering, and manipulating systems can overtake the INTP's conscious thought. This fascination for logical wholes and their inner workings is often expressed in a detachment from the environment, a concentration where time is forgotten and extraneous stimuli are held at bay. Accomplishing a task or goal with this knowledge is secondary.

INTPs and Logic -- One of the tipoffs that a person is an INTP is her obsession with logical correctness. Errors are not often due to poor logic -- apparent faux pas in reasoning are usually a result of overlooking details or of incorrect context.

Games NTs seem to especially enjoy include Risk, Bridge, Stratego, Chess, Go, and word games of all sorts. (I have an ENTP friend that loves Boggle and its variations. We've been known to sit in public places and pick a word off a menu or mayonnaise jar to see who can make the most words from its letters on a napkin in two minutes.) The INTP mailing list has enjoyed a round of Metaphore, virtual volleyball, and a few 'finish the series' brain teasers.

INTPs in the main are not clannish. The INTP mailing list, with a readership now in triple figures, was in its incipience fraught with all the difficulties of the Panama canal: we had trouble deciding on:

1) whether or not there should be such a group,
2) exactly what such a group should be called, and
3) which of us would have to take the responsibility for organization and maintenance of the aforesaid group/club/whatever.

A Functional Analysis -- by Joe Butt
Introverted Thinking

Introverted Thinking strives to extract the essence of the Idea from various externals that express it. In the extreme, this conceptual essence wants no form or substance to verify its reality. Knowing the Truth is enough for INTPs; the knowledge that this truth can (or could) be demonstrated is sufficient to satisfy the knower. "Cogito, ergo sum" expresses this prime directive quite succinctly.

In seasons of low energy level, or moments of single-minded concentration, the INTP is aloof and detached in a way that might even offend more relational or extraverted individuals.
Extraverted iNtuition

Intuition softens and socializes Thinking, fleshing out the brittle bones of truths formed in the dominant inner world. That which is is not negotiable; yet actual application diffuses knowledge to the extent that knowledge needs qualification and context to be of any consequence in this foreign world of substance.

If Thinking can desist, the INTP is free to brainstorm, calling up the perceptions of the unconscious (i.e., intuition) which are mirrored in patterns in the realm of matter, time and space. These perceptions, in the form of theories or hunches, must ultimately defer to the inner principles, or at least they must not negate them.

Intuition unchained gives birth to play. INTPs enjoy games, formal or impromptu, which coax analogies, patterns and theories from the unseen into spontaneous expression in a way that defies their own comprehension.
Introverted Sensing

Sensing is of a subjective, inner nature similar to that of the SJs. It supplies awareness of the forms of senses rather than the raw, analogic stimuli. Facts and figures seek to be cleaned up for comparison with an ever growing range of previously experienced input. Sensing assists intuition in sorting out and arranging information into the building blocks for Thinking's elaborate systems.

The internalizing nature of the INTP's Sensing function leaves a relative absence of environmental awareness (i.e., Extraverted Sensing), except when the environment is the current focus. Consciousness of such conditions is at best a sometime thing.
Extraverted Feeling

Feeling tends to be all or none. When present, the INTP's concern for others is intense, albeit naive. In a crisis, this feeling judgement is often silenced by the emergence of Thinking, who rushes in to avert chaos and destruction. In the absence of a clear principle, however, INTPs have been known to defer judgement and to allow decisions about interpersonal matters to be left hanging lest someone be offended or somehow injured. INTPs are at risk of being swept away by the shadow in the form of their own strong emotional impulses.
Famous INTPs:

Socrates
Rene Descartes
Blaise Pascal
Sir Isaac Newton

U.S. Presidents:
James Madison
John Quincy Adams
John Tyler
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gerald Ford

William Harvey (pioneer in human physiology)
C. G. Jung, (Freudian defector, author of Psychological Types, etc.)
William James
Albert Einstein
Tom Foley (Speaker of the House--U.S. House of Representatives)
Henri Mancini
Bob Newhart
Jeff Bingaman, U.S. Senator (D.--NM)
Rick Moranis (Honey, I Shrunk The Kids)
Midori Ito (ice skater, Olympic silver medalist)
Tiger Woods
Fictional INTPs

Tom and Fiona (Four Weddings and a Funeral)
Dr. Susan Lewis (ER)
Filburt (Rocko's Modern Life)