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This is interesting. I test as an INFJ on all tests, but always as one with quite a low expressed F and J and I find that aside from my intimate relations my Ti seems to me to be quite dominant. I am essentially adding support to your hyepothesis and saying that it is quite likely correct, as...

Well, I have not yet conquered my nervousness towards dealing with groups, I also think I have a good ability to make people laugh. Although it usually takes me a while to get a sense of who they are before I will start making comments as my sense of humour is very dark, caustic, dry, and can be...

Athenian200- No, I have not done a function test. And after reading VH's post I think that I was conflating Te with a combination of Fe and Ti. VH- Your analysis is very helpful. It really cleared up quite a few things. Thanks!

I voted for the golden rule, but I prefer a socially and historically sensitive, pluralistic but non-relativistic form of virtue ethics. It seems to me that character is important to morality, and thus there needs to be a focus on virtues, but that these virtues are not context independent but...

I, myself, am an INFJ, but my F is not expressed that strongly, and therefore I tend to identify both with the INFJ mode of functioning and the INTJ mode of functioning (albeit to a lesser degree). My question is whether any other person who is an INFJ/INTJ has difficulty understanding...

I do think there are strong reasons to improve the world, but quite frankly it is unclear to me what improvement of the world means. Of course we can exhibit virtues like generosity and compassion, but if our entire conception of what makes life worth living and lives go well leads to emptiness...

Ability to make other's feel comfortable around you and close to you, without being able to feel comfortable expressing oneself to those others who feel close to you, and feel completely comfortable around you. This is just a particular manifestation of an inability to trust, combined with a...