Visual Typing - MBTI Head Shapes
After collecting more evidence over the past two years here is an updated chart of the different head/face shapes for the MBTI types.
the general markers:
1. Introverts have thin faces, extroverts have wide faces (the only exception being xSTJs, more on that later), scientific studies about this:
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-65358-6
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886916309096
2. xxTPs have very rectangular faces with pronounced square chins. ExTPs in particular are prone to bulldog-like underbites, giving a stereotypically masculine appearance
3. xxFJs have smaller underveloped jaws with small chins, giving a triangular/ heart-shape, feminine appearance
just a hypothesis but 2. and 3. are probably related to testosterone-influence during embryonic development hence the correlation for both appearance and gendered character traits (feeling vs thinking, emotion vs ratio)
4. *for some reason if someone has this specific long jaw misalignment it -has- to be a male ISFJs (photo example before and after lefort 1 jaw surgery). (like, not -all- male ISFJs have it, but if someone has it you can bet it’s an ISFJ). haven’t seen this in INFJs or in female ISFJs yet
5. Te/Fi-users have average jaw sizes and therefore go more into the circle/oval direction. xSTJs in particular often have “egg-shape” heads. xNTJs look somehow more triangular than their Si/Ne-counterparts but still more egg-ish than xxFJs.
behold, an xSTJ:
6. for why ISTJ and ESTJ are “switched” in head width and they are the only MBTI pair that is an exception from the I/E-width-rule I only have this half-baked explanation that it’s not about introversion/extroversion in a social sense but more in a “openness to sensations” sense that ESTJs with their inf Fi are more stubborn and actually more withdrawn than ISTJs(??)
7. ENTJs have the most pronounced foreheads you’ve ever seen
8. fat can disguise the head shape, but not always. e.g. see those two examples of ExFJs before and after weightloss. the chin is still sharp and triangular even when overweight:
meanwhile the rectangle shape of this ISTP only becomes visible with lower body fat:
9. overdeveloped masseter muscles can distract from the chin shape.
e.g. take this picture of young INFP Brad Pitt. one could easily fall into the trap thinking he has an IxTP head shape when in reality his chin has a normal Te-user size and it’s just his masseter muscles distracting from the shape. the curved indentations between chin and muscle are a good clue. (compare it to pictures of him being older with less pronounced masseter muscles, then his real chin shape is more obvious)
comparing with ISTP Sigourney Weaver, her rectangle head shape is visible during all ages regardless of muscle mass
as a novice those differences can be hard to track. train your eye by observing photos of people during different age stages, try to imagine the face without any soft tissue and bone only.
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do you have any thoughts on visual typing? specially for IV?
For IVs, as of now it is unreliable. To begin with, the notion of IVs is still badly defined, as its definition considerably differ from one community to another. And by definition I don't just mean what is meant by "Social", "Sexual", and "Self-preservation" but also largely what are instinctual variants ; what composes them, how do they manifest, what are they used for, what is their utility, and then what is meant by each variants, what distinguish each of them... And so on. Some of those notions are blurry and some other simply differ, because the fundamental notions are blurry or non existent.
So, establishing visual cues for already poorly defined concepts become nearly impossible. Tho, I do think there is something potable to exploit when it comes to visual typing, but it would be essential to refine the concepts themselves. The best would be to be able to capture evidences of said concepts through something like visual typing and defining from those manifestions, in order to find repetition and coherence that would prove their existence and delineate them.
I know for a fact visual typing systems have potential. It is proving itself rn through the paradigm of "CT". Tho, there is still refinement to be done, as any theory that still need to be processed through scientific methods.
In the end, I wouldn't fully rely on visual typing to get your IVs right as it is rn. Unless there is a community that have refined a relatively objective methodology that proves the existence of IVs (aka, not vibe typing bs), IV typing will remain difficult, prone to errors and overall, unreliable.
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xSFx & INFj :::FiNe:::: (right)
SISTERS
Having a hard time typing my daughter on the left. daughter on the right is EII. I'll come back to update her type when I get it right.
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Sxsp real/fictional examples (part 1?)
Kendrick lamar
Billie Eilish
Min Yoongi
Joan Jett
Rihanna
Megan Fox
Playboi Carti
They're cool, smooth, an untouchable aura to them and almost corpse-looking, as if undead. Their eyes are heavy, tired and glassy compared to their warmer smile. Mysterious, shrouded, intriguing
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@strawberryss1 gonna make this into an extra post so that there is at least some educational value for others
(seperated from the answers to the former post https://istj-hedonist.tumblr.com/post/697216762641547264/do-you-still-subscribe-to-the-eyelid-space-theory)
(about Trump)
I don’t even know where to start with this, this is so wrong on so many levels. since when is Fe = smooth talker?? if that were the case you wouldn’t have these tons of foot-in-mouth cringe ESFJs. and since when is a tert function a good function? even if we would go with your logic of “Fe = good talker” that would mean that ExTPs are bad at it because it’s only their third and not the dominant or secondary function.
and people finally need to stop with this dumb “eyes roaming around” shit, it means nothing. i’ve seen "moving eyes” being attributed to everything.. Se, Ne.. and now Fe?? you guys need to make up your mind.
Trump is tone-deaf simply because he’s a rich nepotism baby sx/sp 8w7-core and doesn’t give a shit about anyone.
it’s just wild to me how you can look at any random interview and not see the super obvious aux Ti in him. which xxTJ would ever ramble so incoherently like he does?
also that Salman Khan guy in the video you linked is not even an ESTP what is that video supposed to proof??
(lol ok i just looked it up and apparently pdb types him as 8w9 ESTP lmao when he is a super obvious ENFJ, i swear pdb is filled with the most brainless idiots who think everyone is either an xNTJ or 8-core or both)
so/sp ENTJ. tritype probably 953, -extremely- phobic contraflow vibes
bigass forehead that he tried to cover up with hair
dude deadass looked like that Henry child from Stranger Things lol
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Really excited to post this one cuz he's my fav character, my first brainrot, my crush when I was just a wee lad. He's Bod's guardian and to me, he's even more like a father to Bod than Bod's adopted parents themselves. I have a serious obsession w him ngl askjdhalsd. I do wanna draw more of him soon when I have the time :3
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