I see plenty of Ni drifts with his head following his eyes in both interviews. In the 1993 interview: Ni scowls at 1:27, 2:41, 3:54 and body sways as he answers his inquirers.
He's kind of a tough case, isn't he! I believe we decided on FiSe for him a while ago. Refreshing my perspective with these videos, I still agree with that typing.
Deep seems pretty intent in his expressions, often disregarding mere amiability in place of a more potent emotive stance.
This is a very on-point observation, I think. When Fi leads the psyche it's far more about one's own personal ethics and feelings than it is about social harmony. Fi is a judgement process, so it tends to be invested in its views and back them with a lot of conviction and emotional energy. I think this is part of why FiSe indie artists can come across as so edgy and original, because their expression is direct and they feel justified in their own way of seeing and doing things.
CT yields everyone so Fi or Gamma all the time it's hard imagining many Alphas or Betas in this theory. There are a few other function/VR theories I hold to a bit more strongly, which are also balanced and broadly tested for consistency. The problem with too heavy of weight on either side of quadras is they lose their distinct relational efficacy in place of a broader permission. But it's also a matter of what the theory is aiming to define, the chance that it hits something gold. Thank you for responding here, I hope you guys continue passionately with this theory.
hmm... this got me thinking, so I did some counting of samples from my mind map and got:
It does seem that there's more Te/Fi samples in general, as opposed to Fe/Ti samples. But the difference is proportional. Alpha and Beta hover around ~75, and Delta and Gamma hover around ~100. So the lean doesn't seem particularly bias toward Gamma, as much as just more Te/Fi representation.
I think this could be due to my sample base being largely focusing on a more American (and Northern European) demographic, since I can't really understand other languages. I suspect if I factor in more people from Asian, African and Middle-East ancestry, things might be different.
This also kindof ties into a lingering suspicion of mine that Te/Fi as a function pair may have been more heavily selected for in the Northern, icy conditions of our ancestral past. The question of whether function pairs are subject to selective pressure still remains open, I think.
We know that blonde and red hair, as well as fair skin, came as a result of selective pressures from low sunlight and the need to loosen the melanin level of the skin, as well as provide better camouflage in snow when hunting. Equally so, the logistical conditions of ice-age cultures may have caused far heavier reliance on tool-making and practical thinking.
One of the reasons advancements came quicker among the northern european cultures (while African cultures remained more unchanged by proportion) is because of these pressures; the sheer lack of resources (bad weather/crops), the sheer need to innovate (with clothes, tools, etc)
This is just a guess but it's conceivable that African people kept a selection more inclined toward Fe/Ti because they remained in a more traditionally tribal environment, where things are managed with societal rituals and traditions. And inversely, northern european (and America came from this) cultures were selected for Te/Fi as a pairing because it offers far more utility in the well-needed practical/mechanical department.
This would no doubt be indirectly related to the "West" and its notoriously empiricist/materialist philosophy.
(Still this would be more a matter of ratios, not an absolute rule, as I suspect the selective pressure would not have definitively omitted Fe/Ti in said culture; just made its representation weaker by proportion.)
CT yields everyone so Fi or Gamma all the time it's hard imagining many Alphas or Betas in this theory. There are a few other function/VR theories I hold to a bit more strongly, which are also balanced and broadly tested for consistency. The problem with too heavy of weight on either side of quadras is they lose their distinct relational efficacy in place of a broader permission. But it's also a matter of what the theory is aiming to define, the chance that it hits something gold. Thank you for responding here, I hope you guys continue passionately with this theory.
heh, well I think the entertainment industry does have a lot of Gammas in it, second most prominent are Betas. As has been talked about, Se/Ni lends a sharpness/seriousness to the eyes and a tendency toward the sensual aspect of experience which comes across as sexy and/or badass. Further, the way Fi tones the personality with immediate raw emotional response makes Fi users more seemingly emotionally available by default.
I've noticed some of the most famous actresses have been FiSe, and many legendary actors are NiFe or other high-Fe types with directive Fe. I think this is likely due to our perception of males as having yang emotional energy, and females yin emotional energy. The 'vibe' of a person has everything to do with how they impact us emotionally, and so it makes sense we would select to personify the masculine and feminine archetypes via identification with the extroverted and introverted ethical functions - those which modulate how we express our emotions. Now, humanity is more varied in its concepts and tastes than this binary of masculine and feminine, and I think this shows when we see a popular entertainment figure who's a 'strong woman' or 'feminine/sweet man'. One of the things I think makes Johnny Depp and Michael Jackson attractive is their apparent feminine sensitivity; many women (and prolly homosexual men) do appreciate men who can be in-touch with their emotions and creativity.
That said, these are just general patterns I've observed in the entertainment industry specifically. Another pattern I've noticed is related to demographics, it does seem that there are a lot more Te/Fi than Fe/Ti users in America and parts of Europe (esp. England, Ireland and Germany). Unfortunately, being that Erifrail and I are located in the US, I think many of the videos and real-life examples we've seen thus far happen to be biased to that demographic :/ It seems a lot of media from outside the country isn't readily available, but from what I've seen it seems that the East - especially Japan - has the opposite demographic where many people are Fe/Ti. As mentioned in the book, the cultural framework of the West vs the East seems to reflect this difference in majority function usage.
So yeah.. we could definitely use more international samples! (vacation to Europe/Asia? ^__^ *wishes*)
The thing about Cognitive Type that I think makes it different than most other typology theories is that it is centered around empirical evidence. This both makes the theory potentially more accurate, and limits it to the direct data analyzed. For us, the point isn't to concoct a balanced list where each type, quadrant or function is shown in equal expression, because this may not be indicative of reality! We are after the facts, what we see via the visual reading process. And if it so turns out that most of the American actors we analyze are Gammas, then so be it. The only way I'd change my opinion is if some evidence (like EEG experimentation) proved that what we were visually typing as Fi was in fact psychologically Fe, or as Ni was actually Ne. But the evidence speaks for itself.