Carl Jung once proposed that intuitives may have more sensitivity to smell than other personality types, especially dominant intuitives, because like their preferred cognitive function, smell is subconscious. This got me theorizing that perhaps each personality type has a unique sensory sensitivity. So, based on Jung's idea, I humbly propose:
Sensory Sensitivities of the 16 MBTI Personality Types
Perceivers: Touch
Perception operates in the here and now, as does touch. If something is not within grasp at the same time as you, you can't feel it. Touch senses force and largely operates on an instinctual level. It is subconscious yet concrete, like perception. Perception makes us jump, like feeling a surprise touch.
Thinkers: Sight
Thinking apprehends the here, but not necessarily now, as does sight. You can only see clealry what's near you at a given time. Sight detects danger within vicinity and prompts inhibition. It is conscious yet concrete, like thought. Thought makes us pause, like spotting a snake.
Feelers: Sound
Feeling functions in the now, but not necessarily here, as does sound. You can hear something coming before it is there. Sound gives away incoming threats and stimulates impulse. It is conscious yet abstract, like feeling. Feeling makes us arouse, like hearing a scream.
Intuitives: Smell
Intuition emerges beyond the here and now, as does smell. Sometimes the first thing that hits you is the smell, and it lingers long after. Smell provides warnings in the form of insight. It is subconscious and abstract, like intuition. Intuition makes us understand, like smelling a rat.
The Sexual Behavior of the 16 Myers-Briggs Personality Types: Introverts
according to socionics, divided by subtype
[extroverts here]
ISTJ-Si: Erotically sexually inventive; value beauty and aesthetics; will not bare monotony. Know how to introduce the elements of games into relations. Are sensitive yet inclined to apathy; need a moderately reasonable and lenient partner capable of rich fantasy and variable behaviors.
ISTJ-Te: Doubt their feelings and yet are erotically daring and initiative taking. Think more of their partner’s sensations than of their own; strives for new sexual techniques. Need an optimistically disposed person capable of encouraging them and being absorbed by interesting prospects.
ISFJ-Si: They are very sexual, inventive and diverse in their intimate plans. Although appearing soft, they persistently display initiative in the approach. They need someone capable of winning their respect and admiration through uncommon abilities – these will aid for a long time in preserving their interest.
ISFJ-Fe: Values frequent sexual contacts. Frequently inconstant in their feelings, but very attentive to those whom they love. At first, they can be tormented by uncertainty, then, intrigued, they are able to take the initiative. When interest in their partner lessens, he can be energized with mild jealousies.
ISTP-Ti: Often show concern about their partner and provide them with pleasant gifts and trifles. Require a sensitive, delicate partner, since they are straight-line/simple in sexual contacts and sufficiently restrained in the positive and negative expression of emotions. Their partner should yield to their persuasions and strive to satisfy all of their requirements.
ISTP-Se: Thoughtful and initiative-taking in care, but uniform in the erotic. Know how to make compliments and establish close contact. Need a sexual, emotional, and romantic partner, whom does not find them boring; a flexible diplomat who knows how to discharge their emotions and is an easily appeased and forgiving person.
ISFP-Fi: Capable of taking initiative if their partner finds it difficult, but only if partner will confidently reciprocate. Have many concealed complexes, which they find difficult to free themselves from; because of these they may seem cold in regards to their erotic feelings. Require both romantic and practical proofs of love, and an emotionally confident partner.
ISFP-Se: In relations they are tactful and attempt to fulfill the desires of their partner. Need a partner that’s not overly demanding; they should be economic and aid in the creation of comfort, order and welfare. Partner should be responsive to their pleasures but more so to their attachments; otherwise they may possibly break relations, ignoring any compromises.
INFJ-Ni: Romantic, elevate themselves in feelings and dream about a great and prolonged love. Appear sexually timid, but their aim is for sexual harmony and the reaching of spiritual and physical perfection. Require a volitional, decisive, active and energetic partner, who possesses feelings of humor and inspiring confidence.
INFJ-Fe: Strongly emotional and they express their emotions easily. Are coquettish, enticing, and dress with taste. Know how to provoke their partner’s initiative. Love sexual games and prolonged preparations. Need a strong, loyal, practical, sensitive and initiative-taking partner; and sufficient support in their lives.
INFP-Fi: Erotically are yielding and shy, await the initiative of another; unpredictable and predisposed to fantasies, inclined to improve sexual relations. Needs a partner who is economic, practical, precise, concrete in words and able to interpret the intentions of others. Honest, they desire a partner with a strong nature that commands a feeling of debt.
INFP-Ne: Aim for aesthetics, harmony and perfection in sex. Wounded, they greatly depend on the emotional state of whom they love. Require proofs of love; need someone initiative taking, optimistic and confident in their self and feelings. In sexual life are slaves of their partner’s demands.
INTJ-Ni: Erotically act somewhat unsure, over-anxious and careful. Need prolonged care or sexual preparation; may somewhat “torment” their object of affection in order to achieve greater emotional incandescence. Need an optimistic and diplomatic partner, who knows how to persuade and is capable of scattering self-doubts. Tendency to await initiative from others.
INTJ-Te: Give freedoms to partner but does not appreciate extremes and will try to stabilize relations. Enjoy emotional preparation and different sexual techniques. Need a partner who encourages their private ventures; a volitional practical person who strengthens the family/household’s welfare.
INTP-Ti: Desire constant stable relations. Find it difficult to display initiative with contacts, however, this difficulty fades when they are confident with their feelings. Attracted to those that reach for them through pleasant food, comfort, sexual initiative, concern for their health and fulfillment of their requirements.
INTP-Ne: Attentive and internally emotional partners. Willing to take the sexual initiative, but also careful and farsighted. Erotically are affectionate and tender; aiming for new impression. Intimate relations require more than trust and sincere concern, need variety in sex in order to raise their moods.
The Sexual Behavior of the 16 Myers-Briggs Personality Types: Extroverts
according to socionics, divided by subtype
[introverts here]
ESTJ-Te: Artless and persistent in relations, are erotically straight-line/simple. Place matters above emotions and capably demonstrates coldness; therefore needs a patient, self-possessed partner, someone reasonable, kind, economic, industrious, and loving of humankind.
ESTJ-Si: Erotically are initiative-taking and sexual. Require a moderately coquettish, romantic partner, whom willingly responds to their erotic initiatives; someone modest, reliable, restrained and emotionally diverse.
ESFJ-Fe: Very emotional and prone to idealize their object of love. Distrustful and suspicious, their aim is for stable relations. Constantly attempt to attract others interest to themselves.
ESFJ-Si: Often take the initiative in sex. Are attentive and thoughtful, knowing how to provide pleasure; emotional yet diplomatic with contacts. Rather demanding, their aim is new impressions and they are inquisitive in sex; willing to experiment. Their partners should be resourceful in expressing responsiveness to their feelings.
ESTP-Se: Are sexually daring and energetic; animated in interaction and possessing feelings of humor. Are sexual and diverse in both moods and erotic reactions. An imperious and demanding partner, but can be thoughtful and affectionate. Require an attentive, loyal, and reliable partner, whom will remain utterly submissive to their initiative.
ESTP-Ti: Their emotional expression may appear somewhat forced as they prefer to await the initiative of others; afterwards are tender and attentive with an aim of improving sexual techniques. Have need of someone reasonable, flexible and diplomatic. Their partner should be affectionate, attractive, merry and optimistic.
ESFP-Se: They are particularly impatient, aim for the physical realization of their emotions. Encouraging, but remain a little indeterminate in their desires. Are erotically inventive, touchy, wounded and capricious. Need a wise, patient, yielding person, who knows how to pardon them while remaining moderately critical.
ESFP-Fi: A soft yet persistent partner. Can display sexual initiative or await it. They require a sober, reasonable and industrious person, who knows how to ensure respect for their household; meanwhile they can care for the rest.
ENFJ-Fe: Erotically do not enjoy displaying initiative. Inclined to analyze the behaviour of their partner. With those, whom they love, are sensitive and thoughtful. Need a serious, imperturbable, proper and self-possessed partner.
ENFJ-Ni: Inclined to idealize their object of love. For them sexual reciprocity occurs in a contradictory fashion not predictable by their behaviour. Have need of a moderately emotional, thoughtful, persistent and initiative-taking partner who knows how to quiet them, encourage them, and inspire them with confidence in their feelings.
ENFP-Ne: Want reciprocity and harmony in sexual relations. An idealist and romantic – they search for love and perfection. Are distrustful and constantly analyze their own feelings along with those of their partner. They bloom next to a sensual and attentive person, capable of encouraging them and freeing them from doubts.
ENFP-Fi: Erotically inventive when positively reinforced by their partner. Tendency to lose restraint when angry means they need a reasonable and patient partner; then they become natural, sincere and direct in their emotional expression. Stable relations require someone energetic, reliable, with business sense and the ability to know how to explain things.
ENTJ-Te: Try to conduct a simple, healthy sexual life, predominantly with one partner whose satisfaction is important. Need someone diplomatic, sensitive and responsive, who is serious, moderately emotional and capable of understanding them. Partner must be lenient and also know how to diversify erotic impressions over time.
ENTJ-Ni: Inclined to frequently change their sexual impressions or partners. Impatient, with a tendency to hurry events; they are prone to hurry sexual relations, assigning an accelerated rate. Initiative-taking, daring and value reciprocity; but touchy and impulsive. Will find support in an economic, sexual and reliable partner.
ENTP-Ne: Sexual interest tends to bear a periodic nature. With them it is necessary to show tolerance, modesty and restraint. They must firstly be provided with respect and confidence, in regards to their feelings, and then they will easily show initiative and enjoyment.
ENTP-Ti: When they are confident in love are initiative taking, affectionate, and take care to satisfy their partner; always improving sexual techniques. They need a decisive, emotional and sexual partner, capable of quickly convincing them of their feelings and providing reciprocity.
Hi, I am trying to mix game theory with relationship in MBTI. And I had to quantify the best type of relationship in the MBTI and for that iI used the intertype relation in socionics. The problem is that I need to find a way to explain why I classify some relation higher than some others and also justify why some of them will have a higher score than the others in my game. For example a Dual relationship have a score close to 1 (high) and conflict will be close to 0 (low).
This is awesome! I’m going to start by listing the rankings as assigned by sociotype.com, then I’ll explain the reasoning I deduced beneath the cut.
The compatibility of intertype relations, from greatest to least, is as follows:
Duality
Identity
Activation
Mirror
Mirage
Semi-duality
Congenerity
Cooperation
Recruit
Supervisor
Recruiter
Supervisee
Super-ego
Extinguishment
Quasi-identity
Conflict
So I went to https://sociotype.com/tools/ and used the intertype relationship calculator to get a gist of how they rank the relationships. (I'll translate the Socionics lingo to MBTI in the parentheses.) I'll also use this graphic to illustrate Model A through Jung's archetypes:
I found that they score types that value the same functions (dominant through inferior) the highest– let’s call this the “soulmate” group. Second highest are the types that share only two valued functions AND two independent/dependent functions (think of dominant/inferior and auxiliary/tertiary as “sets”, represented by the heads vs hands above: hands do what heads signal)– call this the “peer” group. Third are the types that ONLY share two valued functions– call this “transactional” group. Lowest are the types that do not share any valued functions– call this “opposite” group. Each group has sub-criteria to determine ranking within that group.
In the soulmate group, functions in the same sets rank above functions in opposite sets; then, functions in opposite positions rank above functions in the same position.
In the peer group, shared functions in opposite positions rank highest; then, as the tiebreaker, I ranked the relationships with mirrored (Ni/Ne, etc.) leading (dom) functions higher.
In the transactional group, the subject ranks relationships differently than their partner. Relationships in which the subject’s creative (aux) function is matched or mirrored by the partner’s leading (dom) function are ranked highest; then, relationships in which the subject’s leading (dom) function is complemented (Ni/Se, etc.) or mirrored by the partner’s creative (aux) function rank higher.
In the opposite group, functions in the same sets rank highest; then, leading (dom) functions of the same orientation (i or e) rank higher.
So... what the hell does this ACTUALLY mean in MBTI terms, you ask? Let’s break it down type by type (using INFJ as example subject)
Duality: same values, same sets, opposite order; balanced strengths and weaknesses with aligned priorities (dom Ni complements dom Se, aux Fe complements aux Ti)
Identity: same values, same sets, same order; aligned priorities but unbalanced (total match, no complements)
Activation: same values, opposite sets, opposite order; balanced but priorities are misaligned (dom Ni complements aux Se, aux Fe complements dom Ti)
Mirror: same values, opposite sets, same order; misaligned priorities and unbalanced (dom Ni matches aux Ni, aux Fe matches dom Fe)
Mirage: half same values, same dependent set in opposite order; similar perspectives with balanced strengths and weaknesses (dom Ni mirrors dom Ne, aux Fe complements aux Ti)
Semi-duality: half same values, same independent set in opposite order; balanced but perspectives dissimilar (dom Ni complements dom Se)
Congenerity: half same values, same independent set in same order; unbalanced but perspectives similar (dom Ni matches dom Ni)
Cooperation: half same values, same dependent set in same order; unbalanced and perspectives dissimilar (aux Fe matches aux Fe)
Recruit: half same values, subject’s aux function mirrored by partner’s dom, dom function complemented by aux; subject’s critical function is triggered (aux Fe mirrors dom Fi, dom Ni complements aux Se, crit Fi triggered by dom Fi)
Supervisor: half same values, subject’s aux function matched; partner’s trickster function is triggered (aux Fe matches dom Fe, dom Ni triggers trix Ni)
Recruiter: half same values, subject’s dom function mirrored; partner’s critical function is triggered (dom Ni mirrors aux Ne, dom Ni triggers crit Ni)
Supervisee: half same values, subject’s dom function matched; subject’s trickster function is triggered (dom Ni mirrors aux Ni, trix Te triggered by dom Te)
Super-ego: opposite values, same sets, same orientation; two sides of the same coin (introverted doms, backwards opposites)
Extinguishment: opposite values, same sets, opposite orientation: same side of matching coins (mirror opposites)
Quasi-identity: opposite values, opposite sets, same orientation: two sides of matching coins (introverted doms, inside-out mirror)
This was the hardest ask I’ve received in years, and I learned a lot while finding an answer! Thanks for the ask anon, and please send us documentation of your game. I’d love to share the finished product!
P.S. A reminder to my general followers: ALL TYPE COMBOS CAN HAVE SUCCESSFUL RELATIONSHIPS. And preferences are unique to individuals! My lived experience doesn’t match these “compatibility rankings” at all. Yes, your type dynamics will influence your relationships in loose patterns that may or may not correlate with intertype theory. Intertype relations are a tool, not a rule :)
