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Are ISTPs more empathetic than ISTJs?

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emerald sea said:
any individual who isn't sociopathic has the capacity to empathize, and does so when something moves them. this is not a matter of personality type.

Fe is innately empathic, but Fe is not required to have empathy. all personality types can and do empathize.

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I was never questioning the ISTPs ability to empathize, i was comparing the amount or frequency of empathy utilized by ISTJs vs ISTP types. To be honest i was leaning towards ISTPs as being more frequently empathetic, but i ask questions because i dont have enough information to veryify that idea.
 
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ISTJ's are slightly more compassionate and empathetic than ISTP's since feeling is they're 3rd function, though unhealthy ISTJ's can be somewhat cold.
 
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SuperDevastation said:
ISTJ's are slightly more compassionate and empathetic than ISTP's since feeling is they're 3rd function, though unhealthy ISTJ's can be somewhat cold.
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Compassion and empathy are not correlated with the feeling function...that was actually always one of the problems I had with the Myers Briggs T vs F questions...being compassionate is always associated with being an F, and rational with being a T. I don't see why those two things have to be mutually exclusive.
 
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