It’s no secret that certain personality types have a history of getting together with certain other personality types – so much so that various theories have emerged discussing which types are the ‘ideal matches’ for which other types. Below, I went straight to the horses mouth and surveyed over 1700 personality enthusiasts to determine where each type’s main attraction lies — that is, if they displayed a preference at all!
Overall, ENFPs showed a significant preference for other intuitive-dominant personality types.
Overall, INFPs showed a significant preference for intuitive, feeling personality types, followed closely by intuitive, thinking personality types.
ENFJs displayed a wide array of type preferences, but generally indicated a preference for intuitive personalities over sensing personalities (with ISTJ types being the exception at 10%).
Overall, INFJs showed a significant preference for other intuitive-dominant personality types.
Overall, ENTPs showed a significant preference for other intuitive-dominant personality types.
Despite being thinking-dominant types, INTPs displayed an overall preference for intuitive-dominant types (closely followed by intuitive-auxiliary types).
ENTJs displayed a significant preference for types that use extroverted intuition – with the exception of INFPs, whom only 2% listed themselves as being most attracted to.
INTJs showed a significant preference for other intuitive-dominant personality types.
Unfortunately, this survey only received 8 ESTP responses, which was not enough to form conclusive results about which type they find most attractive.
While the ISTP’s results were largely skewed in favor of ESTP and ENFP types, it’s important to note that we did not receive enough responses from this type to deem their preferences significant.
While the ESTJ’s preference for ENFP types was surprising, it’s important to note that we did not receive enough responses from this type to deem their preferences significant.
Interestingly, the ISTJ type displayed the strongest attraction to their dichotomous four-letter opposite, the ENFP. That being noted, we did not receive enough responses from this type to deem their preferences significant.
ESFPs displayed a relatively balanced set of preferences across the sixteen types.
Interestingly, ISFPs displayed a strong preference toward intuitive-dominant types. That being said, we did not receive enough responses from this type to deem their preferences significant.
Overall, we did not receive enough responses from this type to deem their preferences significant.
Interestingly, ISFJs displayed a strong preference for intuitive types. That being said, we did not receive enough responses from this type to deem their preferences significant.