I Surveyed Each Myers-Briggs Type to Find Their Top Attraction – Here Are the Results

11.07.2024 03:30

Thought Catalog

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!

ENFP

23% of ENFPs listed themselves as most attracted to INTJs.
14% listed themselves as most attracted to INFJs.
13% listed themselves as most attracted to other ENFPs.

Overall, ENFPs showed a significant preference for other intuitive-dominant personality types.

INFP

20% of INFPS listed themselves as most attracted to ENFPS.
14% listed themselves as most attracted to ENFJs.
10% listed themselves as most attracted to INTJs.

Overall, INFPs showed a significant preference for intuitive, feeling personality types, followed closely by intuitive, thinking personality types.

ENFJ

15% of ENFJs listed themselves as most attracted to INTJs.
13% listed themselves as most attracted to INFPs.
11% listed themselves as most attracted to either ENTPs or INTPs.

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%).

INFJ

21% of INFJs listed themselves as most attracted to ENFPS.
14% listed themselves as most attracted to ENTPs.
11% listed themselves as most attracted to INTJs.

Overall, INFJs showed a significant preference for other intuitive-dominant personality types.

ENTP

20% of ENTPs listed themselves as most attracted to INTJs.
15% listed themselves as most attracted to ENFPs.
10% listed themselves as most attracted to INFJs.

Overall, ENTPs showed a significant preference for other intuitive-dominant personality types.

INTP

15% of INTPS listed themselves as most attracted to ENFPS.
13% listed themselves as most attracted to INTJs.
12% listed themselves as most attracted to ENTJs or ENTPs.

Despite being thinking-dominant types, INTPs displayed an overall preference for intuitive-dominant types (closely followed by intuitive-auxiliary types).

ENTJ

24% of ENTJs listed themselves as most attracted to ENFPS.
15% listed themselves as most attracted to INTPs.
11% listed themselves as most attracted to ENTPs.

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.

INTJ

26% of INTJs listed themselves as most attracted to ENFPS.
13% listed themselves as most attracted to either ENTPs or ENTJs.
10% listed themselves as most attracted to other INTJs.

INTJs showed a significant preference for other intuitive-dominant personality types.

ESTP

Unfortunately, this survey only received 8 ESTP responses, which was not enough to form conclusive results about which type they find most attractive.

ISTP

39% of ISTPs listed themselves as most attracted to ESTPS.
17% listed themselves as most attracted to ENFPs.
11% listed themselves as most attracted to ISFJs.

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.

ESTJ

27% of ESTJs listed themselves as most attracted to ENFPS.
12% listed themselves as most attracted to ISTJs.
11% listed themselves as most attracted to ENFJs.

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.

ISTJ

20% of ISTJs listed themselves as most attracted to ENFPS.
16% listed themselves as most attracted to INTPs.

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.

ESFP

17% of ESFPs listed themselves as most attracted to INFJs.
12% listed themselves as most attracted to either ISTJs or INTPs.

ESFPs displayed a relatively balanced set of preferences across the sixteen types.

ISFP

23% of ISFPs listed themselves as most attracted to INTJs.
16% listed themselves as most attracted to ENFPs.
10% listed themselves as most attracted to other ISFPs.

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.

ESFJ

12% of ESFJs listed themselves as most attracted to INTPs.
The remainder of the results were relatively balanced across all types.

Overall, we did not receive enough responses from this type to deem their preferences significant.

ISFJ

19% of ISFJs listed themselves as most attracted to ENFPS.
16% listed themselves as most attracted to INTJs.
11% listed themselves as most attracted to INTPs.

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.