<p>nah, it’s not a matter of PERSONALITY, it’s a cognitive / thinking-style … preference thing. which in turn will influence the way you act (as in… personality). i dont believe it changes at the core</p>
<p>It was approximately 3 degrees out when I walked to school today. Not so much fun. They should have closed my school…</p>
<p>Eh, procrastinating on my Physics WebAssign, not much else new.</p>
<p>Well then it depends on how you define personality. Isn’t cognitive/thinking style a reflection of personality?</p>
<p>People can change from introverts to extroverts. Isn’t that a core element of personality, by most standards?</p>
<p>i think it’s the other way around – thinking affects personality…</p>
<p>I’ve never been fully satisfied with the introversion-extroversion dichotomy- some people are both in different situations.</p>
<p>yeah but sometimes i guess it is not a matter of how much you talk, it is how much you self-reveal and depend on others to get going etc… have to go …may or may not elaborate later…</p>
<p>yeah. but i hate trying to define myself, cuz then i think about it and i always find the situation where im the opposite.</p>
<p>People are much more complex than personality tests make them out to be. The idea that you can so easily break down an entire population into a few different categories is somewhat flawed. Even as general categories, they don’t always serve their purpose when the situation varies. There are times when I am more “introverted” and times when I am more “extraverted”…and the same is true of anyone (which is why very few people will get 100% or 0% in any of the four facets measured…)</p>
<p>I find that when I’m with people of certain personality types, I tend to gravitate toward one of the opposite types of that one. Does that make any sense?</p>
<p>When I’m with an INTJ, I fill the role of the ESFP, even though, left to my own devices, I think that I too am an INTJ. It’s weird.</p>
<p>No one expects to be defined in a paragraph- personality tests are just tools that may or may not help you to realize certain thought mechanisms, preferences or mindsets you may have.</p>
<p>funny question but are any of you “seeker725” ?</p>
<p>nope, not me</p>
<p>I’ll be back, got to go eat din din</p>
<p>Din din for me too. Back later!</p>
<p>what is “seeker725”?</p>
<p>Hey, everybodyz(i cannot believe I added a “z” to that…), anyone here and rearing to debate?</p>
<p>I think that there are a lot of people who put too much stock in personality tests. Personality tests are historically unreliable anyway; there is so much divergence within psychological community about how personality should be measured/quantified or if it even CAN be measured/quantified. I’m more of a behaviorist (who knew?) and the Myers-Briggs test seems somewhat humanist in nature, so it also comes down to how valid you personally consider these tests to be. So yes, take them for fun, maybe learn something about yourself from them, but don’t take them too seriously. Although I don’t mind being called a Mastermind.</p>
<p>The point is that my results based on these tests can vary over time. Whether my personality can change over time is another topic altogether. A behaviorist or humanist would probably say yes, personality can change if the environment/life situation changes and you are forced to adapt. A biological psychologist or psychoanalyst would probably say no, you are stuck the way you are born or and/or there is no way to change the product of your messed up childhood (Freud would say so more eloquently).</p>
<p>I’m off to eat.</p>
<p>haha
FREUD was sort of messed up…</p>
<p>True, paper. Very true.
I think Freud, to some extent, kind of based all his theories of Oedipus complex, id, etc. off of his own personal experiences and projected his messedup sexual/aggressive tendencies onto the rest of the population…</p>
<p>OK, now I’m REALLY off to eat. :D</p>
<p>and yes we are here.</p>