Helen Fisher's Personality Types

[Expat]

Helen Fisher, an anthropologist, has arrived at her own personality types, and she also says that different types can be complementary in relationships.

The four types are: Explorer, Builder, Negotiator, Director.

You can find a test of her types in Oprah's site:

http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/20070...uiz_form.jhtml


My results:

The Love Quiz Results


Explorer: 23
Builder: 12
Negotiator: 16
Director: 24

[Creepy-Diana]

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[Gilly]

Explorer: 22
Builder: 17
Negotiator: 23
Director: 18

About what I thought. I somewhat hoped Explorer would be on top, but somehow I knew that it would be Negotiator>Explorer, heh.

[Sirena]

Explorer: 18
Builder: 18
Negotiator: 22
Director: 16

After reading the descriptions, I conclude that I am definitely a Negotiator.

[FDG]

Explorer: 24
Builder: 10
Negotiator: 19
Director: 16

def. an explorer by reading the descriptions too

[inumbra]

Negotiator: 21
Explorer: 19
Director: 15
Builder: 14

[Joy]

I'm not so sure about these quiz results. A lot of the questions were things I felt completely neutral about.

Explorer: 17
Builder: 14
Negotiator: 19
Director: 18

[Park]

Explorer: 21
Builder: 18
Negotiator: 17
Director: 20

Maybe an Explorer wanna be, but the Director description fits me the best.

[Expat]

What I found interesting is that I read elsewhere (off line) that she says that the perfect couples are:

Explorer - Explorer
Builder - Builder
Director - Negotatior

Presumably from analyzing lots of data on real people.

[Park]

What I found interesting is that I read elsewhere (off line) that she says that the perfect couples are:

Explorer - Explorer
Builder - Builder
Director - Negotatior

Presumably from analyzing lots of data on real people.

That would make me an Explorer then.

[xyz]

Fucking Oprah.

Sure I took it.

Explorer: 18
Builder: 16
Negotiator: 20
Director: 27

Director

[redbaron]

Explorer: 20
Builder: 19
Negotiator: 22
Director: 16

[Suomea]

.....

[xyz]

Explorer: 21
Builder: 21
Negotiator: 21
Director: 19

ugh.....

hey buddy that sure sums it up!

[Mariano Rajoy]

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/h...n_in_love.html

Here is a talk about the brain in love. Helen Fisher MRI'd people in love and here is her speaking about it. What is interesting is that she concludes with a four element typology for predicting relationship compatibility.

[Expat]

http://www.the16types.info/vbulletin...ad.php?t=19207

Already a thread on that -- I will give it some time and then merge them.

[consentingadult]

Apart from the irritating dramatic style of her lecture, a lot of what she says is just unproven theory and speculation and biased: she discovered a couple of facts, and then fills in all the blanks based upon her a priori view of reality.

What she is talking about, 'romantic, passionate love', can also be described as 'infantile narcissistic attachment', with the same validity. But in a world where narcissism, in its more neurotic manifestations, is the norm, it must be hard to conceive that this type of love ('romantic, passionate love'), is, in fact, not a universal truth. It is a very western view of love, a form a love considered by some non-western cultures as immature, e.g. Buddhism.

To the recycle bin with it!

[FDG]

I got the same result as allie