David Keirsey’s four temperaments, from his book Please Understand Me, are related to personality types. He takes the 16 types and simplifies them into 4 temperaments by dividing the S side of the chart into J’s and P’s and the N side into F’s and T’s. The following chart shows how Keirsey’s four temperaments relate to some other typologies as well as to characters from popular culture.
Keirsey Temperaments
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Dave says
I fall in the NT’s i.e., Rationalists. Yes, I do value knowledge and competence above any other thing in a person. And that’s the reason why I’m a sapiosexual too. I’m just overawed by any woman who talks about intelligent things rather than the typical fashion and beauty related talks. In fact, if I see a woman with grey matter in abundance, then I get totally blinded to her physical looks. I just don’t care how she looks after that. By the way, awesome chart. I can totally relate to most of the things in it. A proud rationalist!!!
D'Angello says
I’m an NT as well and I totally agree with what you said.
Russian intp says
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Joseph Stalin says
I’m scattered across 3 of the 4 categories; I fall somewhat into the artisans, rationales and idealists. I aspire to be more rational, but I feel as though I am innately selfish and impulsive. I struggle to take action, make plans and follow through with them. I’ve always been typed as an XXFP, but I feel as though I’m more logical than empathetic as it is an area I’m constantly trying to build and feel insecure about. I limit myself to new experiences and instead speculate on what I could be and why I could be that way and in doing so, I seem to combine a lot of the personality types and traverse them as part of some kind of abstract process. I might wake up one day and decide that I’m going to act like an ENTP, just to feel what it would be like to be that type and my curiosity leads me to sites such as this. I’m currently juggling the ideas of being an ESTP, ISFP, INFP or an ENFP but I know that eventually I’ll pick up a type that I dropped such as ISFJ which I don’t relate to at all but feel as though I COULD relate to in some kind of metaphorical way, which usually contradicts the concept of me seeking logic entirely. I seek knowledge and understanding of the world outside of ‘this is a chair’ or ‘this is a table’. Sometimes through debate of ideas, sometimes through trying to create ideas myself and reinvent the wheel just to see how it would work. And people call me a moron, an ISFP for doing that because it seems completely out of touch with the concept of familiarity, especially to XNTXs when I start being more talkative about ideas only to close myself off again when someone thinks I’ve said something stupid. There’s a lot of ideas that I keep for myself, every time I talk to people I contradict myself with not speaking directly or clearly and instead letting the ideas talk for me and run away with the conversation until I’m comparing my toenail size to Hamlet. I think that I look for authenticity through my understanding of the world and ideas, yet constantly try to look for who I could be from looking into different perspectives which are the ones that lead me to acting like an ESTJ and making a complete fool of myself just to try to understand that person. Every time I go out into the world, I feel like an alien speaking to people and seeing them for the first time and trying to figure out how everything fits together inside of my imagination. I will put a square peg in a round a whole a billion times without realising it. And also my cat is a psychic ENTJ who gives me tarot card readings.