Quote Originally Posted by redbaron View Post
I met someone the other day and I though he was SEI but then sometimes when you first meet people they're a lot more emotional. Excited to meet you or something. And then I started thinking maybe SLI.

The Si and the Ip temperament seem so obvious. And Fe ought to be obvious too but it's hard to tell what someone's natural state is like. I feel like Fe can be a show at first. How to spot Te>Fe? I mean quickly! How can you spot it quickly?
Quote Originally Posted by octo View Post
I'm the opposite of you redbaron, I find the Fe/Te difference much easier to spot than Ni/Si! It's hard to encapsulate in words, but I can generally tell by how they respond to my emotional cues - whether their responses feel "natural" to me, and I've noticed that if I say something with very little substance and lots of Fe, they tend to give a confused pause before responding. Also Fe-creatives tend to mirror my mood-shifts. It's usually obvious to me after a 3 minute conversation.
I can't seem to find SEI's for whatever reasons, I've met emotional SLI's(esp girls) who try to be ish but they fail at it and seem really annoying and awkward. I have a couple of SLI friends who are girls who are like this, they try to be girly, but in the end to me they just seen awkward and annoying. They lack the charm and natural grace I find in egos(IEI that I've experienced mainly). I also find them stubborn, cheap and a bit mean, but I still like them. These are both subtype girls so I think this has something to do with it.

I think people need to think of SXI as types and not as thinker or feelers. The dominant function is still the key to individual personalities and the creative function something that should not be as readily apparent. Perfectionism in expression of PoLR is also very (imo) common to observe and just because individuals may focus overtly on these functions, it does not mean it's their creative function.