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Corpse Bride: Victor van Dort [INFP 9w1]

Corpse Bride: Victor van Dort [INFP 9w1]

Function Order: Fi-Ne-Si-Te Victor is an idealistic and romantic young man who lives by his heart, who finds it difficult to express his intense emotions, and instead, fumbles his way around them. He gets tongue-tied and nervous with girls. He believes any marriage should come out of passionate love, rather than simply obedience to one’s cultural expectations. But he is also somewhat fickle in…

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Can you elaborate on what you find to be the ‘immensely excellent’ aspects of 9s? Because my 9 sibling really gets down reading the many descriptions of 9s as boring, weak or lifeless creatures. She went on a forum recently that said 9s have the least personality and got pretty sad about it, so if you could tell us what you like about 9s that might help me cheer her up :)

9s are naturally accepting, tolerant, pleasant people to be around, who make no one else uncomfortable, who never come across as self-absorbed, and who are earnestly able to mediate between people without playing favorites. They have no interest in harming anyone else or curtailing their views, because they see everyone’s side as equal and worthy of being heard. They create safe spaces for others to be earnestly themselves without judgment, and bring an aura of peace to their environment. One little 9 girl I knew would pick out the most anxious person in the room, sit on their lap, and they would soon relax just holding her, because of the peaceful and loving acceptance of them that she radiated out through her body. Being around a healthy 9 is like coming home. They are also imaginative and creative personalities, often with melancholy romanticism and longing for a better world tied into their inner being; there’s a reason so many of them are misidentified with 4.

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Hi! INFJ here, not ISTP. I'm a 9 but don't really identify with the description of nines that say we are indecisive. I find that I actually have little patience when others can't make up their minds about things, especially trivial things like where to eat. Is that my 8 wing coming out??

Yup, and probably an sp-dom social variant, they are more grounded, aggressive, and present to themselves due to focusing on their sp needs (plus, if you were sp9w8, you'd also have... sp8, which is direct in going after what it wants).

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Hi! Do you have an idea of type and Enneagram of Dean from Gilmore Girls? He seems ESP to me, but wanted your opinion.

Thank you!

I see him as an SFP and a 6. When he cheats on his wife with Rory, it’s because it’s how he feels and he sees the marriage as being “over” – he doesn’t consider his wife’s feelings or even factor them into his decisions. He doesn’t fit right with her, so he goes back to someone who understands him better in a rather unhealthy, selfish Fi way. (Contrasted to Rory’s SFJ-ness, where she focuses on betraying his wife and how she might feel, in addition to not feeling right about her mother being “at” her for being “the other woman.” Rory has “everyone…” feelings, and Dean has “… my feelings.”) But yeah, his Se is obvious – he loves being physical and hands on with his work, he builds Rory a car, and his answer whenever he’s upset is to punch out “the other guy.” I’d have to think about whether he’s ISFP or more impulsive.

He’s a sexual 6, so somewhat aggressive, over-protective, a bit traditional, and caring, but also good-natured and cautious.

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I still don't really understand what Ni is, as a function. I get what all the other cognitive functions entail, but Ni remains extremely confusing to me. I keep thinking it's being able to come up with a really far reaching plan, or being able to predict future consequences but neither of those seem accurate or limited to Ni-users.

This is Ni.

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Enneagrammer Shortcuts

Centres of Intelligence

Body/Gut - 891

Anger-based, how do you assert yourself as a separate individual being that is different than others, “anger” is standing up to reality, ego boundaries

8: Overly asserting one’s existence, easy access to anger, pushing against any threat to their being.

9: Blurred boundary between the self and others, external surroundings can fill up the 9 as they are malleable as a separate being.

1: Finding a way to exist that’s “right,” adding the superego into the body space, strong boundary.

Heart/Image - 234

Shame, who are you supposed to be to yourself and others, the shame of not measuring up to that image, emotional processing.

2: Image of being necessary and loved by others, being needed and indispensable as a warm and caring presence to others.

3: Image of being the best of whatever it is you are, being marketable to others as a person.

4: Image of being separate from others and too unworthy to belong, making the negativity of being an alien something beautiful.

Head/Fear - 567

Fear, how do you navigate through a dangerous world, processing using the mind, questions.

5: Withholding all your energy from others to avoid the messy emotions that can drain your highly-sensitive system.

6: Being vigilant and double-checking, not straying too far from “others” in terms of who you are.

7: Distracting yourself from harsh realities with fun and movement.

Source: https://www.enneagrammer.com/triads

Trifix Cheat Sheet

Determining your full Trifix can often take years of study and introspection. However, once you do, the richness of information is revelatory. Enneagrammer coach, Emeka Okorafor, put together a cheat sheet as a starting point to considering what your trifix might be.

Heart

In the Heart/Image center your fixation is your preferred way of maintaining a self-image. One might feel “I should” show:

2 – sweetness and care, positive emotions, heartfelt love and affection, goodness and serving.

3 – excellence, accomplishments, repressing emotion, value and success fitting a recognizable mold.

4 – withdrawn individuation, negative self-image, chronic disappointment, self-distinct taste in aesthetic.

Head

In the Head/Thinking center your fixation is how you’re compensating for not knowing and trying to navigate and understand what’s real. Each head fix is overdoing a different style of insight:

5 – dissecting/uncovering the unknown, conceptualizing, granular over-focus.

6 – hyper-vigilance, guidance outside of myself, orienting to a system or structure.

7 – possibilities, animated interesting-ness, multi-faceted options for experience.

Gut

In the body center your fixation is how you’re maintaining ego boundaries. It’s how you’re creating psychological boundaries and distance internally and externally:

8 – forcefulness and impact, pushing and expanding out, amping up at the expense of softer and smaller inner part.

9 – fuzzy and unclear, inner confusion from dispersed and cluttered wants and needs, diffuse absorbing of outside influences.

1 – rigidity and self-control, high standards of purity maintained by self-restriction, moralistic criticism and judgment.

Source: https://www.enneagrammer.com/-blog/trifix-cheat-sheet

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Could you give any example of INFJ 7 or 6w7 (maybe unhealthy) character, please?

I don’t have a character example, since 7 is a rare type for IJs, but 7 would have either strong interaction with Ni-dom ‘detachment’ from reality and/or over-use of Se. How? Well, Ni-doms want things a certain way and have high expectations, they do not settle for less, and they are highly specific in how they envision their outcomes, since they spend a lot of time turning things around in their head to find the perfect angle from which to view reality. A 7 Ni-dom therefore might be prone to over-idealized thinking -- taking external information and refusing to see the negative side of it, instead transforming it into an idealized view of reality that is nowhere near the actual truth. INJ 7s might all be prone to this, but the INFJ more so because low Ti usually looks for ‘confirmation rather than contradiction’ for their Ni-dom perceptions, leading them to discard any evidence that doesn’t agree with their strong idealism. The 7 would also make them prone, I think, to envisioning things in their head and abandoning them before ever actually doing anything with them, rather than the usual 7 Pe trait of ‘do this for a week and then drop it when it gets boring’ -- the temptation for an INJ is to stay in their head and avoid the outer world, but the 7 would also want to experience some of it, since they are forever ‘running away’ from unpleasant things / boredom / broken relationships. There would be a lot of avoidance of their own pain and others, a lot of denial of wrongdoing (since 7s are prone to rationalizing their hurtful / selfish decisions rather than owning up to them), avoidance of people who ‘bring them down’ or make them want to introspect negatively.

Lastly, again depending on whether the 7 channels itself into Ni or Se, there might be impulsive 7 behaviors through Se -- impulse buying, over-spending, over-eating, binge-watching, cramming their schedule with fun things to do, feeling covetous when other people go on trips or have experiences without them, orienting oneself toward sexual experiences, or various forms of gluttony. But they would handle these clumsily rather than with the ‘confidence’ of an SP.

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Nancy is a very hard character to type. I’ll take you through my thought process. She seems to put her feelings aside to do things. Even in season one when her “friends” were bullying Jonathan after they found out about him secretly taking photos of their party and her approaching him more delicately, I didn’t see it as her Fe-ing or being sympathetic, but rather having a hunch about it being related to the disappearance of her friend and putting her feelings aside to follow that lead. aggressiveness wouldn’t have worked with Jonathan, she did it in a way that he would respond. (Te, Ni)

I didn’t get the impression at first that she thought Jonathan knew something – I think she merely felt sorry for him, knowing that he was Will’s brother, that his family didn’t have much money, and did not like Steve breaking his camera, so she was nice to him. But I don’t argue with you that she can put her feelings aside to get something done – since as you point out, we see this a lot in season three with her work, where she’s peeved at being treated like the coffee girl but puts up with it because she figures it will advance her career eventually.

In season two when she felt that she’s being fake and not her true self it came out in a very unhealthy way with childish outbursts and heavy drinking/partying (could be inferior Fi or Se)

Yeah, that could be inferior Fi. She literally had to get drunk to say what she wanted to say all along – that she hates lying about Barbara and she doesn’t feel like she wants to date Steve anymore; she really just went back to him out of… habit? Fear of being with Jonathan? I dunno, but I thought it was a weird choice in season one, after she spent all that time with Jonathan.

Wanted justice for Barb because she felt it was the right thing. And literally became obsessed with giving her family closure and didn’t rest until she found a way with the “watering things down” metaphor  scene. Extremely stubborn once she sees finds a purpose and pursues it with passion (Te, Ni)

First sentence – good reference for inferior Fi, which can be stubborn when it comes to what it wants to do. Don’t know that an ESTJ wouldn’t also pursue a course of justice and want to take down the bad guys, though. Still, she shares Hermione Granger’s tritype, right down to the instincts. Are they alike?

She’s such a badass in crisis and doesn’t hesitate for a second. She takes the lead and deals with it first hand. I don’t know, she’s such a leader that way. Very responsible and dependable.

Yeah, she is, which is probably Te. Could be tert-Se also.

We see her in season three focusing on her career and taking it seriously. She has always had a sense of wanting to constantly improve herself like it’s her main focus. Whether being more herself and more authentic than she was last year, or righting a wrong in Barb’s case, or taking her job seriously and trying to find stories for the paper. She doesn’t accept that “it is what it is” and women aren’t taken seriously where she works, and keeps trying to prove herself even after being humiliated several times. I have a strong feeling if she’s given the responsibility to run the paper she’d come up with a system in a day and do it 10x better than those stupid men.

Well, yes. She is a 3 after all. ;)

She’s interesting that’s for sure. My conclusion is that she’s a xxTJ.

Probably Te-dom, yes. But I have Carnival Row and possibly Dark Crystal (if it’s not too weird / boring for me – I never finished the original) to watch this weekend, so I’m not sure when I’ll get back around to Stranger Things. :)

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When typing characters, how do you differentiate between 9-core characters and 2-core characters, particularly when both types are in their tritype? The reason I ask is because I noticed that some sources type Melanie from Gone With The Wind as a 2, while on here she’s a 9, and it seems like there are at least some similarities between these types that, for me at least, make it kinda hard to differentiate between them. Also this blog is amazing 💕

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Melanie is much too accommodating to be a 2. 2′s have a certain “bite” to them because they expect something in return for their service, and typically have no problem telling people if / when they are out of line. Her 9ishness is what makes her loving and accepting of Scarlett regardless of her behavior. It allows her to numb herself to the possibility that her own husband might be romantically involved with her “best friend.” Scarlett comes to her husband’s birthday party dressed like the temptress she is, and Melanie instead of insulting her or sending her away, welcomes her readily and makes sure everyone at the party knows that Scarlett is her dearest friend and always welcome.

Think about 2′s in context of someone such as Molly Weasley from the Harry Potter franchise. Always helpful, always resourceful, always caring for everyone, but she can also lash out and be temperamental, since 2 disintegrates into 8 aggressive tactics. For example, Molly as a 2w1 when she believes Rita Skeeter’s stories about Hermione in the Daily Prophet, punishes her by ignoring her, and excluding her. She never numbs herself to anything, which a 2 core wouldn’t, but is normal for a 9 core – and numbing is what Melanie does. It’s all fine. It’s always fine <- her 9ish core mantra.

If you remember the scene with the Yankee who came into the house to steal and rape the women, Melanie displays 6ish behaviors under intense pressure – she becomes cautious, resourceful, and fearful. (We need to bury the body, or they’ll come here and get you, Scarlett. Hurry up! We can look through and count the money later!) That’s 9 moving toward 6 under stress. Molly, meanwhile, shows intense anxiety over losing her family throughout the later books, but when push comes to shove, becomes an 8 in dealing with Bellatrix Lestrange.

When I really can’t figure out which type a character is, I go to the Enneagram Institute and look up the comparisons. Which one sounds more like Melanie?

Twos need to be needed, they want to be important in the lives of others, and they want people to come to them for approval, guidance, and advice. Average Twos almost “go after” people, and are always in danger of subtly encouraging people to become dependent on them. They tend to do things for people so that others will reinforce their sense of themselves as all-good and loving. By contrast to average Nines (who become silent, uncommunicative, and show few reactions when they get into conflicts with others), average Twos have no hesitation about telling people how selfish they are or informing them in no uncertain terms how much others are indebted to them. In short, as they become unhealthier, the egos of Twos inflate and become more self-important and aggressive, whereas the egos of Nines become more self-effacing, withdrawn, and diffused.

Healthy Nines offer safe space to others. They are easy-going and accepting, so that others feel safe with them. There is almost no tendency in Nines to manipulate others or to make them feel guilty for not responding as they would like. (Healthy Nines are more patient and humble–traits Twos could learn from them.) By contrast, healthy Twos are willing to get down to the nitty-gritty and help out in difficult situations. They have an energy and staying power that average Nines tend to lack. Moreover, the help that healthy Twos give has a direct, personal focus: it is a response to you and your needs. In general, Twos will walk that extra mile with others, whereas, while Nines sincerely wish others well, they generally offer more comfort and reassurance than practical help. (The particularity of the love of healthy Twos is something that Nines could learn.)

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New Girl: Winston Bishop: INFP

UNOFFICIAL TYPING BY: anonymous

Introverted Feeling: Winston is very emotional, like the other feeling dominants in his loft, but he doesn’t talk about his feelings often, like Jess and Schmidt (Fe doms) do. He has a difficult time connecting with women and his co workers, not because he dislikes people, as Nick does, but because he doesn’t use Fe; more often than not, he is a little oblivious on how he comes off to people. He gets in his head imagining the way his social interactions with women could go wrong (Ne) like they have in past (Si) and he trips over himself, needing to get drunk or listen to pep talks from Jess before loosening up. Winston has a very strong attachment to his cat Ferguson, sometimes attributing human thoughts and feelings to the cat. Additionally, he is strongly attached to his loft mates and would do anything for them. Winston’s Fi makes him desire a career in which he gets to help people, but it makes him uncomfortable with being in the spotlight, receiving accolades and attention for being a “hero.” Nobody can tell Winston how he feels, even if everyone thinks it’s crazy he believes he has PMS, he doesn’t care; that’s how he feels. Break ups are hard for him and he typically wallows in all his feels for an extended period of time before moving on.

Extroverted Intuition: Winston loves ideas, to the point of being detached from reality. When returning from Latvia, he is shocked to find how much pop culture is integrated into his interviews for new jobs. But instead of discouraging him, it invigorates him. He spends hours online obtaining cursory knowledge on things like you tube videos and current movies and songs. He gets so wrapped up in the research that he forgets to prepare for more pertinent questions, such as why do you want this job. Winston LOVES pranks and generating new ways to get people, but his inferior Te makes him terrible at the execution. He either goes too big (registering Nick on a sex offenders site) or too small (placing one lone blueberry in Schmidt’s cereal). Out of all the loftmates, he’s the easiest to talk into things because he’s promiscuous with ideas and willing to accept different ways of doing things (like talking himself into having PMS or jumping on board with Jess to have a tub). 

Introverted Sensing: 

Winston can find himself stuck in a rut and loop between his Fi and Si, especially in the first few seasons. He’s always played basketball, and even though he doesn’t seem to be that great, he sticks with it because it’s all he knows and struggles to find a non sports related career. Also, he’s been known to hold a grudge like no other; he’s still mad at Nick for pantsing him in middle school. But, him and Nick grew up together, so he holds onto the friendship even if Nick drives him crazy. He knows how Nick gets and can handle all his nutty behavior because he has stored away all this knowledge about him. This is evident in the episode where Nick gets an inheritance and he has to explain to Jess just how weird Nick can get with money, an explanation he peppers with a handful of past events as support. When going through emotional times (Fi), Winston usually loops and can’t except any new ideas (Ne) and thinks things will be just as they were in the past (Si), sometimes causing panic attacks. He dates a girl he dated in the past when returning from Latvia and can’t have fun on new dates while he’s still in love with Ali. 

Extroverted Thinking:

When in the grip, Winston gets obsessed about making things happen in his external environment and becomes crazy competitive. When he’s feeling insecure about not having a career, he challenges a ten year old who stole his ushering job to a highly inappropriate dance off and later becomes obsessed with beating Jess’s students at playing hand bells. As mentioned before, he loves pranks but is TERRIBLE at making them a reality. When he gets a tub with Jess, he just fills it up on the roof, which causes a collapse and ruins Schmidt’s suits. A Te dom would have measured everything and researched the best method to fill the tub instead of just going for it, like Winston does. 

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New Girl: Coach: ESTP

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Extroverted Sensing (Se): Coach is guy who’s very aware of his environment and likes to live in the here and now. He’s known in the group for getting everybody out for epic nights of debachery. Coach works as a personal trainer, spending his whole day getting physical and doing things. When his girlfriend leaves him for a cop, he just shows up at the station, ready to fight a whole group of cops, because that’s how he feels in the moment, which speaks to his lower Ni. He wishes Nick (an aux Se user) would get off his ass and work out and let him train him.

Introverted Thinking (Ti)

Coach is detached and logical, doing things the way he thinks is the most logical way to do them (it’s key to note that he does what makes sense for him, not neccisarily the most universally  efficient thing). For example, when moving to New York, he takes only one small bag, leaving all momentos behind because that’s what’s logical, even though he has room for the Jess cube or the crepe pan. He devised a system he’s streamlined over the years he spent being an army brat as a kid. Winston won’t stay in his room to study? Coach tapes him to the chair so he can’t move. A Te user would show Winston how to create a schedule or study guides (think Hermione). He helps Jess, an inferior Ti user, work through her problems more logically, telling her to just ask for a promotion instead of doing extra work hoping that her boss would notice. Coach does research to figuread out how Jess can be with Ryan, her subordinate, legally. When watching basketball, he watches the games over and over, including commentary, to study the players and plays through multiple angles.

Extroverted Feeling (Fe)

Coach is charming when he wants to be, like when he’s trying to get women to sleep with him, but mostly his feelings come out in explosive ways, like yelling or through physical outlets, such as fighting. When manipulating people, he appeals to others emotions. He wants Nick to go to a strip club, so he calls him whipped, knowing Nick won’t like his manhood questioned. As a new middle school P.E. teacher, he screams at the kids if they don’t keep running, he’ll murder their families. After a break up, he loops between Se and Fe, fighting, drinking, and constantly calling his ex crying, loosing his rational edge. Coach roots for the Pistons because Detroit was where he called home the longest, not because objectively they’re the best team in the NBA. When he decides to go to Hawaii instead of visiting his niece on Christmas, he gets very defensive when anybody brings it up, even if they aren’t critiquing him, because he cares if others think he’s a bad uncle (he ultimately comes to his family Christmas because he cares about group harmony and wants to make his niece happy). Coach acts like he “hates teaching and only loves paychecks” but really bonds with the kids and loves when the make him his Coach Coach jacket.

Introverted Intuition (Ni)

Coach usually just does things, and thinks of the consequences later, like showing up at a police precinct drunk looking to fight his ex’s new cop boyfriend or bringing Ryan to Bangsgiving even though it’s against the rules. Whatever, he’ll deal with the consequences later. He generally  sleeps with many women at once, just sticking around for the fun and bailing when asked for a commitment, until he meets May. He loves her and is committed to buidling a future with her, but even then just moves to New York with her on a whim, thinking he’ll figure out the details later (Se dom). The only true vision Coach has is of him being a coach or a trainer. It’s the only thing he sticks with and he works at improving himself in his field.

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Schmidt: New Girl: ESFJ

UNOFFICIAL TYPING BY: Christina C

Extroverted Feeling (Fe): The most important thing to Schmidt are his best friends and girlfriend Cece. You don’t want to mess with those he loves He goes to great lengths to make his loft mates happy and serves as the group mom. What others think of him is super important to him. He lets his mom control him to gain her approval and only stands up to her when she insults Nick. His job in marketing relies heavily on knowledge of manipulating people’s feelings in order to get them to buy the product. He’s constantly seeking the approval of his female coworkers and boss and is very hurt when he doesn’t get included in office activities. Schmidt  manipulates women, knowing just what to say and do to get them to sleep with him,  running all sorts of scams. 

Introverted Sensing (Si): Schmidt holds onto the past, clinging to the feelings he had from when he was the fat guy. All he does in the present is based on never wanting to be that guy again. He links the past with the present through flashacks and story telling. He likes to follow prescribed social behavior, constantly telling people, especially Nick, what he “should be doing” When first running the bar with Nick, he gives him lots of rules about what bosses should do, like dressing better than employees and making everyone wear uniforms and puts in place lots of policies. Schmidt has a great eye for detail, which is evident in how he dresses and cleans the loft and is a great party planner, throwing an elaborate party for his and Nicks 10 year anniversay of living together. He extensively plans his wedding with Cece coming up with charts and elaborate color coding systems.

Extroverted Intuition (Ne): Schmidt uses Ne in conjunction with Fe to manipulate people to get what he wants from them, especially women he wants to sleep with, coming up with elaborate stories. For example, bringing Nick to a yoga class in a wheelchair so women think he’s selfish for caring for his handicapped friend. Him and Nick enjoy coming up with new products like Real Apps, the Swuit, and the Beer Teet and trying to sell them. His NE also gives his speech a metaphorical quality to it, constantly coming up with zany comparisons, like telling Jess that she has more work to do in her love life than the Kings of Leon, meaning they’re both stuck in one place.

Introverted Thinking (Ti): Schmidt has a very difficult time remaining objective and making decisions that aren’t emotionally based. His Ti comes out by being overly critical of his friends and their choices, nitpicking them like an overbearing mother would. When he ruined both his relationship with Elizabeth and Cece, he doesn’t take responsibility for it and instead spends a lot of time trying to sabotage Jess and Nicks relationship because it’s easier to blame them instead of take responsibility himself.

Note: I’ve seen him typed as an ESTJ, but EVERYTHING Schmidt does is emotionally driven. I think this misconception comes from his corporate job and the drive to make money, almost acting like a caricature of the ESTJ type at work. He only takes a corporate marketing job to become the guy all guys want to be and the guy all girls want to bed, as demonstrated in the episode El Clavo en Un Bar, where he tells the gang about how he went from a candy striper to his current job at Ass Strat. 

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New Girl: Cece [ESFP]

UNOFFICIAL TYPING BY: Christina C

Extroverted Sensing (Se): Cece is a live for the moment party girl who works as a model when we first meet her on the show. She dates guys who she has no future with, goes out and drinks a lot and dances, and of course as a professional model, takes great pride in her appearance. Cece jumps into situations without thinking and encourages Jess to as well, especially in her love life. She’s heart broken over Schmidt and go climbs up Mt. Shasta. Cece almost gets married after knowing a guy for a few months. When her and Jess fight, she drinks a lot as a distraction. As the show progresses, she grows and develops her other functions, but is really a Se dom in the first few seasons.

Introverted Feeling (Fi): Cece keeps her feelings guarded, emoting only when forced, usually by Fe dom Jess. She bottles them up and usually let’s them explode, rather than deal with them in the moment: think about the episode where her and Jess have a fist fight at Nadia’s baby shower or when her and Jess fight about her not telling Jess she’s sleeping with Schmidt. Cece models and works hard at it, even if Jess thinks she could “do better” Unlike Jess who has to talk to others to know how she feels, Cece doesnt because shes in touch with how she feels and sorts through things internally. Her best friends and Schmidt are extremely important to her and she’d do anything for them. Nick drives her crazy when she moves in. Neither can see that theyre very alike and their fighting deeply affects Schmidt, so even though Nick isn’t her best friend, she reconciles with him for Schmidt’s sake. She tries to have an arranged marriage to make her mother happy, but ultimately can’t go through with it because it doesn’t align with her belief that marriage should be based on love, not just a shared culture. She eventually marries Schmidt even though her mother doesn’t approve.

Extroverted Thinking (Te): Cece can get things done when she puts her mind to it. She realizes she needs to get going on having kids, so she takes action and has her mom set up matches and goes to an Indian marriage convention. She’s blunt in her speech and isn’t afraid to tell people what she’s thinking if they insult her or mess with her people, especially Jess. When Winston needs comforting when the girl he’s dating is cheating on him, she suggests he makes her jealous by pretending they’re together instead of just giving a pep talk the way Jess would. Nick angers her by firing people at the bar, so she organizes a walk out.

Introverted Intuition (Ni): In the first few seasons, Cece very rarely thinks about her future. She likes to go out, have fun, and model and constantly dates guys and leaves them before things get serious. While Jess plans everything, Cece plans very little. Her and Schmidt get serious and she runs away because she’s afraid of it ending badly. As the show progresses, we see Cece thinking more about her future as she quits modeling and decides to go to college. She finally trusts Schmidt and they get married, and she’s excited to build a future with him.

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Jess Day: New Girl: ENFJ

UNOFFICIAL TYPING BY: Christina C

Extroverted Feeling (Fe): Jess is a total Fe dom. As Cece says, she could “have an emotional connection with a shoe on the side of the road” She’s constantly found helping her friends and students improve their lives. Jess is affectionate and warm, especially in her speech, trying her best to validate the feelings of others and mirror them as a way to establish a connection. She can take this too far and tends to meddle constantly in the lives of others, with good intentions, but sometimes with disastrous results. When dating Nick, she goes through his box and organizes his bills and pays them without his permission. She tries to convince Cece not to waste her potential by spending her life modeling and tries to get Schmidt to loosen up and not be so controlling. And who can forget all of her parent traps? At her best, she’s a fierce friend, girl friend, and educator, stopping at nothing to help others reach their potential. At her worst, she’s emotionally manipulative and self righteous, trying to get others to conform to her visions and ideals.

Introverted Intuition (Ni): Jess has a singular vision for her life: become a teacher. She’s very devastated when she gets laid off and becomes very un-Jess-like, going from one aimless job to another  (Zombie at a haunted house and a server at the Cass Shant) until hanging out with her hipster millennial neighbors makes her realize she needs to get back to teaching. Her and Nicks relationship fails because she is the girl with a plan, imagining their future family in Oregon, even naming them and ascribing each with individual personalities, while he’s the guy who can’t see past tomorrow. 

Extroverted Sensing (Se): Jess has a very particular and individual style. She’s always meticulously dressed, even when she sleeps. Jess indulges her senses in a variety of crafts and baking, keeping huge spools of yarn in her room and creating multi cloth collages of her and her loft mates. Her and Bear Claw create a whimsical musical about woodland creatures and she loves to sing constantly, even creating herself a theme song. Occasionally, she can jump right into things, like kissing Nick and running away to Mexico with him. But generally, Jess doesn’t live in the moment like Cece and rather uses her Se as a creative outlet.

Introverted Thinking (Ti): Jess has a very difficult time being objective and unemotional, and like Schmidt, most of her decisions are made with her Fe. Through out the series, her friends help her find some objectivity and act in a way that isn’t totally Fe driven. Coach points out that her plan of taking on too much work in hopes that it impresses her boss and waiting for the vice principal job isn’t logical and rather she should just ask for it. He also helps her navigate the difficulty of dating her subordinate, Ryan, and not letting what the rest of the staff thinks about her get in the way of her being the vice principal. 

Note: I’ve seen her typed as an ENFP but I think that is due to the misconception that behavior not cognition equals type. ENFPs aren’t the only type that can be zany and quirky. She is overly concerned with doing what maintains societal and group harmony and is not a Fi user. We always know how Jess is feeling and her dominant Fe drives her to take care of others and be a great teacher, sometimes at the cost of her own feelings and well being.

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New Girl: Nick Miller [ISFP]

UNOFFICIAL TYPING BY: Christina C

Introverted Feeling (Fi): Nick lives by his own individual principles, which make sense to him, and pretty much just him. One of his biggest principles is to never lie; it stresses him out and causes him to sweat profusely. His father was a con man, building his life on lies. He’s always resented his father for coming in and out of his life, which is most likely where this conviction comes from. He can’t lie to Jess about Cece and Schmidt. He can’t lie when Jess wants him to pretend to be gay so her new bf wont think its weird she lives with her ex. He quits law school because he doesn’t want to work for somebody else and by his 3rd year, he no longer recognizes himself, which is unacceptable to a dominant Fi user. He’s not a people person, but he’ll do any for his best friends, unlike Jess who is a dominant Fe user and “could have an emotional connection with a shoe on the side of the road.” Nick rarely talks about his feelings unless he’s forced to by Jess or Schmidt. Schmidt wants him to run the bar like a corporate office and when Nick tries to follow along even though it doesn’t make sense to him, it’s a disaster. It’s only fixed when he goes back to behaving in a way that makes sense to him. 

Extroverted Sensing (Se): Nick lives in the here and now, which is ultimately why him and Jess break up. She as an intuitive thinks way to the future whereas Nick mostly just thinks about what he’s doing that day. He likes to drink (sometimes to excess), eat, and have fun, doing things like playing true American with his roommates. When he comes into a lot of cash after his dad’s life, he goes on a spending spree. 

Introverted Intuition (Ni): Nick knows he wants to do something meaningful with his life, but he doesn’t quite know what. He tries to write a zombie novel, but due to inferior Te, has a hard time taking that dream and making it a reality, until Winston bets him he can’t. He can at times be good at picking up clues that his best friends are acting strange. When dating Julia, she gives him a cactus as a present and he sees it as her symbolically saying hes not a good boyfriend because he can’t take care of a real plant and gets in a FiNi loop thinking of all the ways she might dump him and panicking about their future. This is a common theme, Nick looping and becoming his own worse enemy as he tries to grow as a person.

Extroverted Thinking (Te): Nick has a difficult time organizing his external environment. He’s a slob, does not do well keeping a schedule, or managing money. As mentioned earlier, he dreams of being a writer, but can’t ever organize himself and his time to ever write. He has a box where he keeps all his bills and other items he doesn’t want to deal with instead of sorting through them and paying them. When Schmidt tries to make him exert his Te to run the bar, its so foreign to him that he panics and fires one of his best employees.

Note: I’ve seen him typed as an ISTP, but Nick is not a logical, detached person the way a dominant Ti user would be. All his decisions come from moral convictions he’s constructed with Fi. I think him being an ISFP is what makes his and Schmidt’s friendship so long lasting. Schmidt is an ESFJ and together, him and Nick have all the functions and can help with what the other lacks.