What MBTI Personality are you?

[chaosvrgn]

You can't change types it's a common misconception. You keep the same way of percieving and judging the world even after subs. Just because I'm more confident and extroverted doesn't mean I'm not an INFP anymore. I still have strong personal values, they've just changed since I've used subs. That's it, subs change your personality, but they don't change your type. Think about it. If you literally went from something like an INFP to an ENTP... you'd be going from using FI to TI. It took you years to develope your dominant and secondary cognitive functions, if it were even possible to change types you would basically become a human toddler because you'd have to start over.

Neroplasticity disagress with your statement.

Nope.

INTP.

Former MBTI-Certified Professional. It's not really possible to change types (theoretically). The MBTI is not a "personality test," it's a cognitive functions test. It measures the way your brain is wired to absorb, dissect and categorize information. Your secondary functions can be developed with effort, and that's why your scores are changing. The cheap online tests are lacking certain redundancies to ensure an accurate score. For example, the more expensive, official test will ask you the same question 5 times, worded 5 different ways because people will sometimes lie, or interpret a question in a odd way, throwing off the results.

Also, you can temporarily change types when you're under stress. That's because your secondary functions will manifest as your dominant functions -- but when you're in that state, you'll pretty much hate your life. For example, INFPs -- in a crisis situation, they tend to turn into really f*cking annoying SJ's. They'll get the job done, but it'll be hell.

For those of you who think that you're "just developing your J" and thus turning from an INTP to an INTJ (for example), that's not true. INTP's and INTJ's have COMPLETELY DIFFERENT cognitive functions.

INTP: I Ne (extroverted intuition) Ti (introverted thinking) P
INTJ: I Ne (introverted intuition) Te (extroverted thinking) J

It's an entirely different way of perceiving information. You're not turning into an INTJ. You're turning into an INTP with a strong desire to apply your principles to the world (J - closure) rather than working on the conceptual theory (P - understanding).