Quote Originally Posted by flower
This is precicely what I mean, the moment my ESTj friend knows I am talking about anything even remotely related to psychology, she will switch off to it as she "is not interested in psychology", even though im sure she would find it interesting. I feel this is a weak point of ESTj's, they can be very quick to dismiss information, especially when it comes from someone of lower social status, they listen to and give more weight to information and opinions of people of higher social status.
i find this in my friend as well. she tends to give more weight to established or endorsed/'acceptable' fields of knowledge.