Psychopath: “Pervasive pattern of disregard for the rights of others and the rules of society.”
Due to high demand, the MBTI most likely to be a psychopath has been modified to the ESTP type.
A psychopath is a personality disorder, hence it is hard to diagnose an individual type as a psychopath. However, some types show more frequent psychopathic patterns, and research has proven that certain types are more likely to be psychopathic than others. Keeping this in mind, let the typing begin! 
A psychopath is characterized as having disregard for other people, feeling no empathy for others. This is one of the clear signs that thinkers, who think more logically, are more likely to be psychopaths. Psychologists often comment on the fact that psychopaths are more concerned with what will logically benefit them rather than making decisions with their emotions. Hence, thinkers are more likely to be psychopaths.
When it comes to intuitives and sensors, sensors are more likely to be psychopaths than sensors. Psychopaths live in the present, adapting to new situations and focusing on experiences that will please them at the time. This means that they are good at manipulating situations to their benefit and adapting so it suits them. Se types are therefore highly likely to be psychopaths.
Perceivers, who do not think about the future consequences of their actions, are far more likely to be psychopaths. Psychopaths are adapters, they are flexible and they think in the moment. I’m sure many psychopaths, although they feel satisfaction at the time, regret many mistakes that they make after. Not because of the consequences that it has on others, but because of the consequences it has on them. Yet, they do not think about this at the time as they do not think about how breaking the rules could affect them at the time, a common perceiver trait. This makes perceivers more likely to be a psychopath.
Finally, extroverts are more likely to be psychopaths. They are good at connecting with people, get easily bored by stimuli and they see life as a a sport or game that they must win. Being Se, they are prone to boredom, often involved in criminal activity and fun at parties (but without regard for others.) Being naturally typing, ESTP’s are most likely to be psychopaths.
Judged on this information, it is clear that an ESTP is the most likely type to be a psychopath. This makes sense, as ESTP’s are primarily focused on thinking logically in the moment. They are also secondarily introverted thinking, which means they are spontaneous analyzers.
A good example of a fictional psychopath is an INTJ, Hannibal Lecter, in the Silence of the Lambs movie. It was clear throughout the movie that Hannibal Lecter was an introvert, who enjoyed deep and meaningful conversations, for a greater purpose rather than just to chat. He was also a very smart, manipulative, deeply thinking man. He had the ability to think outside the box using his intuition (such as putting another man’s face on his as a mask.) He was definitely a thinker, as he spent all the time in the movie trying to decide what would most likely benefit him.
A little warning: How do you recognize a psychopath? A psychopath’s primary goal is to win. They want to win career wise, sport wise, competitions, etc. But worst of all: they want to win when it comes to people. And how do they do that? When most people are emotionally comprehending what the other person is saying, and trying to relate to someone in a conversation, a psychopath is only concerned about winning by being more powerful than the other person. If you know someone who genuinely doesn’t care about others, societal rules, and only wants power, then you are most likely dealing with a psychopath. However, this is hard to recognize, as being observers, psychopaths are good at hiding these traits and portraying fake amounts of empathy when the time suits. But go with your gut instinct; there is a reason you do not trust someone, and if you can see through their fake persona, trust that feeling.
A psychopath can be anyone- even the life of the party…
If you are dealing with a psychopath, get out of their life quick! They are deceitful, manipulative, controlling and show no empathy whatsoever. Good luck, and hopefully I did more than just analyze an MBTI type in this article. I’m hoping I informed the world of psychopathic people and the negative affects that they can have.
Which MBTI type do you think? Leave your opinion in the comments section below!!
uhm, psychopathy isn’t in DSM…
thus it is not a personality disorder.
Psychopathy is today’s vampires.
The weak Fe function in INTP makes them compensate by being really easy to offend.
They are also (at least younger one’s) afraid in a way that they hurt people without knowing, or intending to.
An INTP isn’t a charmer or anything like that which is one of the “characteristics” of a “psychopath”. If anything they don’t want to charm people and they are at most just seen as funny because of that.
I strongly disagree. I understand what you’re saying and I’ll explain why you’re wrong when I get some more time. For now, try and rethink what you just said because you’re quite far off base here
let me formulate it like this.
INTP:
Ti Ne Si Fe
Ti – personal logic (alright, might get a point here because the Xi judging functions are dismissive of external ideas and Fi is too concerned with values)
Ne – Strong Ne in INTPs have never meant anything much more than bursts of ideas since it supports Ti. (meaning no point)
Si – Why would you think a type with a past oriented function? it’s not like the psychopath has any reason to go “you know… when I was young….” (lol)
Fe – weak Fe seriously? inferiority complex!
Every INTP I’ve talked to thinks that people are idiots. (you don’t get far by calling people idiots)
If anything a psychopath would be most likely ESTP.
Se Ti Fe Ni
Se – Observant of the present environment and being able to notice and act on things that can help them with advantages.
Ti – Backing up their need for experiencing things with personal logic making them quite sure about themselves.
Fe – A third function Fe allows them to some degree understand people and yet it isn’t weak enough to cause an inferiority complex.
NI – inferiority complex on Ni which is linear and structural. This does so they NEED stimulation since they would get an inferiority complex by routines.
I know that INTPs really want to be considered psychopaths… but there is no basis for it since there isn’t even a psychological disorder called psychopathy.
Also, some studies have been done which suggests that “psychopathy” might be caused by something called a “warrior gene” not a personality.
this is a litle bit too hard to grasp for a nub like me so can u break it down in a easiest wayy possible?
thanks and my apology broken english, im learning still
it is quite much as basic as I can go,
Every type are prone to a certain form of inferiority complex at times which revolves around their 4th function.
like Fe in INTP.
The complex can go in 2 ways, either being suppressed or compensated.
I understand what you are saying, however I strongly believe that your typical psychopath is far more likely to be a sensor than intuitive. They see the world from a completely different angle from most humans, in a way more abstract form.
Why the hell would INTPs really want to be considered psychopaths if they are, as you say, not psychopaths? Why would any person with a properly, fully developed brain (thereby non-psychopaths) really want to have such a disparaged condition? Guess you didn’t think that one through.
That’s such as a stupid comment that it isn’t even funny.
Why would INTPs WANT to be considered psychopaths?!
They don’t. They’d like to be considered Sociopaths, “tough guys”, to scare away exploitative people. And it’s not that their behavior is Sociopathic, but that they have the ability to be so if they want to. A real Sociopath would want to hurt almost anyone they feel like for their own gain (while a Psychopath would hurt absolutely anyone for fun and gain); and it’s not that they would like to be seen as that, but they’d like to be seen, I believe (because I am one myself too), as people able to be Sociopathic if they want to, but don’t really want to, because they’re intellectually/spiritually mature and recognize that real Sociopathic behavior (hurt anyone for gain) is immature, uncivilized, disordered, etc. INTPs wants to believe in human goodness, but they’re also highly skeptical about it (not always/really believing it to be true that people are good).
So to get back to trying to directly answering your question: INTPs may want to show off that they have the capacity of power and evil (not by showing it in real action, but by hinting at it with body language or verbal statements or the-like), just to shun away evil in itself.
Every personality has a need to protect themselves in one way or another, and ours is to show off our contempt for most/many humans.
I guess because INTPs defense is intellectual. We defend ourselves more with words than with sticks or fists (like most other people/brutes).
And because most people don’t take our words seriously, because we’re not evil and don’t seem evil, we have to create a persona of evil or toughness (and we might develop such a side to us too, for protection) so people will leave us alone.
That’s a great point +1
Psychopathy is in the DSM, just not under that name, it’s called Antisocial Personality Disorder. Most people use the term psychopath to refer to people suffering from Antisocial Personality Disorder. Furthermore just because someone is an introvert doesn’t mean they don’t posses the skills required to be charming, it just means they prefer to keep to themselves, which would fit with a psychopath seeing as they only see other people as tools to be used and disposed of. As psychopaths are very good at mimicking people and adapting to their current situation it is not at all unreasonable to assume an INTP would be the best candidate for a psychopath.
No, Psychopathy isn’t in DSM, ASPD is. Psychopathy and ASPD are very different in nature.
You are right that introversion doesn’t mean that you don’t possess the skill to be charming, however charming other people isn’t something an introvert would see the use of to the same degree as an extravert.
I also assume that you are an INTP and that you consider yourself to be a psychopath.
INTP is offended before a situation escalates into violence. They view the world with extraverted feeling however inferior it may be. They have no people oriented intentions to entice them to enter into any state of psychopathy. The majority of INTP are seen as autistic or at least highly altruisitc.
Switch your theory to INTJ and you are spot on. They sense effects in order to seek the causality of any situation therefor ignoring every consequential basis of morality entirely. The ends justifies the means is their entire motto and they hold grudges for an eternity. Perfect Psychopath and damn do they hate INTP for what little interaction we exert near them.
Great article and website; from personal experience I have noted many INFp psychopaths, including my (ex) best friend.
oh yes and I hate my ex ENFP friend, so she must be a psychopath!
Please come with a better argument than “someone I don’t like anymore is XXXX so they must be psychopaths”.
I am INFp (socionics) btw. and INFJ (MBTI).
INFPs are said to see the world through “rose colored glasses”, so I doubt that they’re likely to be psychopaths.
Haha, so true! Not every MBTI type is the same, as acer has pointed out!
I see your point, but I personally always thought of psychopaths as having inferior Fi (introverted Feeling) functions, as they are mainly characterized by a lack of empathy. From what I’ve seen, Fe deals more with social standards and values and living up to the expectations of others while Fi is more about empathy and your internal set of values. I also don’t really see any particular correlation between your information gathering preference (S vs. N) and being a psychopath. Finally, from what I’ve heard, most psychopaths are excellent at putting on facades and charming others, suggesting an Extraverted function and often being Enneatype 3′s. So, I believe the types most likely to be psychopaths are ESTJs and ENTJs. I’ve also noticed that most people of these types lack empathy to some degree.
True, true but another trait of psychopaths is their ability to fake empathy and emotions- something that Fe users can do well!
The extroverted function could quite well be true though!
Fully agree with Sam analysis if we understand Psychopaths as serial killers: most likely to be ESTJ and ENTJ… The P would never get around finishing the killing task anyways
Remember though, the P types can be more impulsive, and many psychopaths are very impulsive, one of the reasons they are dangerous!
My Fi is compassionate, and weak. “Just because people’s Fi is weak that they are going to be psychopaths”…the basis for your argument is completely off. We observe things to understand. Not to kill people! You know when you walk through the street and see the traffic light going from red to green? What do you do? You wait, for it to show you the green walking man and then you move to the other side of the street. Well, we are the people who want to understand why it goes from green to red and how is it managed or structured. When we look at the dancing leaves of the tree, we are the ones who instinctively figure out it is because of the wind and the direction of the wind. This is Intuition combined with all out other functions, to verify the intuition.. We want to understand things to place everything into a design, a pattern that we can find. Killing? that’s pattern breaking. That’s fighting nature. I mean come on, are you saying Albert Einstein was a psychopath? The man preached all his life about peace. Every INTP I know would consider killing as the ultimate sin! There is only ONE INTP, in history that has been marked black. There are many other NTs, however! Albert Speer. The one who said sorry. If you do not have the sufficient knowledge nor know your history, why would you post? Is it to show off then? isn’t that psychopathic behavior?
INTPs use Fe, not Fi…?
ESXX IS most likely to be psychopath. Psychopaths are superficially charming. The INXX group is the least superficial. ESXX is in the moment, While psychopaths do have the ability to think they ACT impulsively without regard to long term consequences. They plan in a closed judgmental system. That is why they cause companies to go out of business. The INXX is the most careful of the types. Psychopaths usually accuse others of being psychopaths (Hitler, etc. placed blame on the victims and was very outspoken and enjoyed the limelight). That is why INXX is typically blamed, because they are the least likely to accuse and most likely to BE accused and are also small in numbers. INXX also takes responsibility often causing them to accept blame for that which they are not guilty (Neurotic behavior, the opposite of psychopathic behavior). ESXX is likely to place blame (externally motivated) and appear to be victimized. ESTJ has strong linkage to sadistic personality as well and enjoys controlling people; INFP has no such desires and is likely to BE controlled.
I still don’t believe in psychopaths, but I’d say that they are more likely to use Fi rather than Fe.
Psychopaths are strategic charmers (if I’m not mistaken), so we can assume that they are most likely extroverts. It’s quite obvious that they need to be extroverted.
Since they are strategic, we must assume that they use either Ni or Si since neither put much focus on the present.
Either we then have ESTJs or ENTJs as most likely.
However, psychopaths can operate well in fast moving situations and take advantage of situations which would require Se.
Thus ESTJ is eliminated as most likely and only ENTJ remains.
How do you NOT BELIEVE in psychopaths? I mean… it’s not like they’re the freaking Tooth Fairy who your parents have been lying to you about your whole damn life! The fact is, there is hard and verifiable evidence to suggest that psychopaths do indeed exist, and for you to deny that is just plain ignorant and flies in the face of every psychological finding. Maybe you’re really a psychopath and are trying to disguise it. Yup – that’s probably it.
-Dilletante
Then you don’t know psychology.
Psychopathy is something that is socially constructed. We have seen it in movies, books etc. and we use it to define people we dislike. Psychopathy is a shortcut to avoid digging deeper into the issue.
http://psychcentral.com/news/2011/12/08/parsing-myths-and-facts-of-psychopathy/32334.html
That’s a bad example, but if you simply dig a bit deeper into an issue you might find that a person might not be emotionally detached, but rather emotionally disturbed.
The Connecticut shooting is a good example of when people scream “psychopath”, when there “might” have been another underlaying issue such as a bad situation in school and a personality disorder such as ADHD or some other psychological disorder.
But like I said, it’s easier to say that fairies exist than to accept the truth. If you want to live in ignorance then it’s your choice, I’m not stopping you.
BTW. unlike what you said, having a skeptical eye never equals being ignorant and I am keeping a skeptical eye about this until I’ve gotten real proof.
I agree with everyone you just said!
Man your reply doesn’t even deserve to be debated.
-Dilletante
ENTP.
Heath Ledger’s Joker in the Dark Knight was clearly ENTP and perhaps one of the most extreme ENTPs. I’m an ENTP myself, and I can tell you sometimes I emphathise strongly with Heath Ledger’s joker. Granted, he was good at his role and hence possibly inspired the Colorado shootings. But as NTs, we are perhaps the most attached to our beliefs and will defend them – of course Es more so through expression than our introverted counterparts; however it does not mean they believe any less strongly. The Joker understood social behaviours extremely well and hence sought to manipulate the people of Gotham, his greatest success being the corruption of Harvey Dent himself – the White Knight of Gotham. His actions and plans were often spontaneous and in the moment, although this does not mean he cannot plan; he merely prefers to improvise. He had no clear motive throughout the entire film; his main aim only to amplify his cynicism and belief that beneath it all the human nature is dark and there is no good among humanity. It is such unpredictable behaviour along with deeply rooted beliefs that scares us – psychopaths themselves see nothing wrong with their actions and trains of thought. I wasn’t paid to do this, but if you will take a moment to watch the Dark Knight – I’m confident you will agree with me.
The Dark Knight is one of my favourite movies, and one of the main ways I exemplify a psychopath to your average person! Your so right with that, and I believe that is why NTP’s can make good psychopaths!
Psychopaths are frequently very stupid and illogical. All the ones that I studied and heard of were stereotypical extroverts (only saw introverted psychopaths in works of fiction).
I’d go with ENTP, ESTP and ENTJ.
Good point about the fiction portraying introverted psychopaths more. It makes for better movies
Well, I am an INTP. Two years ago I did the MMPI test; considered to be the worlds most comprehensive psychological assessment tool. The chart showed quite clearly that I’m regarded as a “borderline psychopath.” I’m not a full blown clinical psychopath, however I’m very, very close.
The psychologist believed that I BECAME that way through life experience, and was not BORN that way.
I believe that I had a very poorly developed feeling side, and through life experience, became somewhat of a people-hater. My rather pronounced lack of feeling contributed to my rather depleted empathy towards others.
Interestingly, I have a very deep love for animals, and feel much empathy for them. However, when I was a mortician in a funeral parlor, dealing with dead bodies every day, I felt no empathy for them.
I’ve learned a considerable amount of emotional intelligence since then. Does that mean I’ve become more of a feeler, or do I just understand emotions better to manipulate people? Only I myself will ever know…..
Haha! Very interesting, and everyone we have an anecdote now that proves INTP’s can be psychopaths
My friend is an INTP, she’s one of the nicest people I know. I don’t think that INTPs are likely to be psychopaths. They usually come across as lovable geeks more than anything. It strickes me that ESTJ, ENTJ, ISTP, ESTPs are more likely to be psychopaths. I do believe most psychopaths are MADE and not BORN although there maybe innate tendancy. In contrast to popular opinion, most psychopaths are not that intelligent – that is a myth created by hollywood.
They are intelligent at manipulating people- maybe not as intelligent as I described though. The Hollywood myth is a good point too
Nice doesn’t mean good. You should be careful. They are good at hiding themselves, introvert part makes them very private.
That’s a great point- being nice can be faked.
I’m not suggesting your friend is a psychopath, but I am suggesting how nice someone appears has no correlation to how likely they are to be a psychopath.
Many thanks to the author of this post and the blog here! It helped me big time in escaping from the clutches of a very manipulative and soul sucking psychopath, who also happened to be my classmate and a guy with whom I worked on a school assignment. I identify many of his traits written here and it was my personal observation that he was very cold, calculative, empathyless, ruthless and utterly manipulative who will suck on your life force like it ws a candy. The guy just feeded on my sympathy and took me for granted and it was a big ordeal to break free from him. It is not all the easy too, the immediate post effects of it, because you feel that you have been manipulated greatly without your own knowledge and it pisses you off! But neverthless, it is nice to break free from the clutches!
No problem Adrian, I can understand and empathize with how you were feeling at the hands of a psychopath. It is absolutely horrible to be around a manipulative person, and if there is anyway I can advice or help you with dealing with such a person, with years of study and personal experience, I can help you if you contact me further about any questions.
I don’t see INTPs as psychopaths. I am one: INTP, that is, not a psychopath. I understand what acerbusvenator means by, “I know that INTPs really want to be considered psychopaths” because they would quite like to have the skills to manipulate people the way psychopaths can. INTPs use up what intelligence they have trying to appear normal and don’t have a lot in reserve for guile and mischief. They can easily work out a game plan but do not have whatever it takes to play it. They know the outcome but lack the energy and interest to take part. They fail the main psychopath test because they are spectators, never winners. They are extremely flattered by their reputation as problem solvers but I believe they do make quite good coaches. By ‘they’, of course I mean ‘we’.
So true!! You have really reminded me of what an INTP is here! They are observers and impersonal, INTJ’s are more likely to get involved in winning and get attached to whatever they want to achieve. Good point!
Having browsed the literature a bit further, it seems that INTJ is a much better fit.
You could be right- especially fictional INTJ villains.
You could be right about the INTJ but I have been thinking…
If there is a correlation between INTP/J personality and psychopathy, then it is hardly direct. There must be some other major factor(s) involved; and I think one may be the thrill-threshold. I do not claim to know a lot about MBTI but I believe thrill threshold is not one of its predictable parameters. I may be an INTP but I have a moderately low thrill-threshold.
I understand that psychopaths require a heck of a large stimulus to excite their neurones. They have a low resting heartbeat, low emotional trigger point, do not easily experience fear, and are unlikely to be shy or easily embarrassed. Perhaps it is a combination of some personality-type and a high thrill threshold that is the killer combination.
Thanks for the discussion
Remember to make the distinction between Psychopathy and Sociopathy.
Psychopaths are incapable of empathy and most if not all emotions (though they probably still get rushes from adrenaline or similar), Sociopaths are capable, but burrows their emotions or tries not to think about it.
But although I think you’re very onto something when you bring up thrill-threshold, I think there’s a need to include its counterpart as well, the repulsed-threshold.
INTPs definitely have a lower thrill-threshold (when their emotions are burrowed – most of the time), but I don’t think their repulsed-threshold is much lower than normal people, or at least not low enough for Sociopathy (in itself).
So even though we might be thrill-seekers in our personality (but with Ti/Ne/Si/Fe… the least harmful functions I can think of..), we never go far with it if our repulsed-threshold is normal.
I think our INTJ siblings might actually have a lower repulsed-threshold, or they might try harder to lower it at least – and perhaps ENTJs even more, but this is pure speculation from my part – I don’t know any ENTJs, and I’ve only chatted with a few INTJs online.
That is so true. Se types would definitely have a higher thrill threshold so… that probably explains why they are more likely to get involved in crazy situations. I like this theory thanks for sharing
What do you think?
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INTP? ENTP!
Also exist theories, about psychopathy is something like “hyper extroversion”.
Everyone’s psychopath
Hannibal Lector is an obvious INTJ. -___-
Yes, but for this example he’s INTP. Otherwise my article doesn’t sound as good
Which MBTI type is most likely to be a psychopath? I would say it depends on the environment, in general, and on the type of society and its rules, in particular. I think that many INTP became psychopaths during nazism in Germany. Convincing an INTP to acting against his/her principles (freedom, by first) is not a trivial exercise (we would rather die from starvation); then, the nazists tried and used strong persuasive means, with the final result that many of us self-burned their brains rather than submitting to nazism.
In general, there are several different types of psychiatric disorders, which can be grouped into two major groups: personality disorders and emotional disorders. The type of psycopathology described by the Author resembles a particular type of personality disorder, which is not even frequent, and is not typical of an INTP. If any, then an ENTJ (who is typically a strong achiever, sometimes egoist and unconcerned about other people’s feelings) might be (more than others) prone to the particular type of personality disorder described by the Author. INTP, instead, are more susceptible to depression, for obvious reasons.
Good point, especially in regards to the environment and society. I believe the same thing
Im an INTP and a strong nationalist. Powerful jew sionists are the reason for todays degrading society and culture into slavery btw.
I dont think INTPs are typical psychopaths, but yes we can transform into sociopaths when needed. Inside we INTPs are logical machines without consern about even ourselves (main reason). We kind of enjoy this unbiassed relationship to life. The only thing keeping us alive, and makes our lives meaningful is that we value whats good and the beuty of nature and brainstuff. Still we have the conclusion everyone are a bit more like animals (if you are not an INTP – its like how you see your dog).
I refer myself as a good psychopath. I can read people about all of its values in no time at all. Going in the subway i read almost everyone right away. Because im such a good guy i dont use this ability for gain. Im quiet gentleman.
I agree with that completely, what’s it like being an INTP?
Most likely, is the key word here. Is it not possible that pyscopaths may have a separate personality of their own. Trying to mix to topics together without any real evidence is nuts. One could perceive this as an EGO issue trying to suggest a certain personality is inferior, public slander or down right stupidity. Therefore i will Judge this a mere fiction or food for thought at best.
“Most likely” is not a stupid issue, though most often it is not exaustive of the argument. Psychopaths have not a psychological type of their own, but every single person has a personality of his/her own (please see the difference between personality and psychological type). I think that judging what you don’t know is a childish attitude, rather than food for thought.
I did not say that psychopaths have a seperate personality of their own. I simply believe one type can be more likely to be a psychopath than another, just as certain people can be better at running, cooking, singing..
You made a littl mistake here. It would be very beneficial for a psychopath to think like an INTP but their type is less likely to desire the material goods and power related to the “success” you described – they definitely don’t gravitate toward sport.
Think about types who need these things and will do anything to get them, yet also have the people skills to manipulate:
ESTx
My friend is ESTJ and I’ve known him for 11 years and he’s the worst compulsive liar imaginable. He lies about anything, no matter how serious, has no emotion about it and if challenged (even a hint that what he said isn’t true) he will go into a meltdown of rage, using any kind of accusation or insult to d
You made a little mistake here. It would be very beneficial for a psychopath to think like an INTP but their type is less likely to desire the material goods and power related to the “success” you described – they definitely don’t gravitate toward sport.
Think about types who need these things and will do anything to get them, yet also have the people skills to manipulate:
ESTJ or ESTP
A friend of mine is ESTJ and I’ve known him for 11 years and he’s the worst compulsive liar imaginable, linking vast series of lies together and building lie upon lie. He lies about anything, no matter how serious, has no emotion about it, and if challenged (even a hint that what he said isn’t true) he will go into a meltdown of rage, using any kind of accusation or insult to distract from the lie.
He uses superficial charm to manipulate people around him and passes information to people in exchange for promotion at work, recognition and to show his loyalty. He’s very good at this.
Remember this type is strongly linked to the sadistic personality and the introverted feeling function is suppressed, making it difficult to put themselves in other people’s shoes (hence the lack of empathy).
Hope this made sense.
Curious ENTPp, why do you remain friends with someone you seem to have no respect for?
I’m not going to weigh in on who I think is the most likely to be a psychopath, because I am just a counselling student with no qualifications to make mental health diagnoses and I came looking to get an asnwer not to give one. I will note that in my research, I have discovered something that some of you seem to be either missing or disregarding for whatever reason: most serial killers are psychopaths but only some psychopaths are serial killers, they may just appear in your life as the unfriendly neighbourhood a**hole or dictatorial, powertripping boss.
However, allow me to share something with you all that I found online and is from the US Army:
https://notes.utk.edu/bio/greenberg.nsf/0/bd7eed04567bfe2b85256e3b002f29c1?OpenDocument
extract from the article (but do yourself a favour & read the whole thing)…
“Considering the characteristics discussed above, the natural killer would most likely be an ESTP (extroverted, sensory, thinking, perceiving) personality type on this test. ESTPs are outgoing, highly adaptive, deal in facts, sensory oriented, excel at sports, learn through life experience, prefer action to conversation and are tough in harsh situations.28 Matching the ESTP personality type to intelligent, caustic, later sons will help identify potential natural killers. The ESTP personality type, coupled with the other associated traits, is not an absolute determinant of a natural killer or a sociopath, but it provides a good baseline.”
Just one more thought before I go, we are all capable of killing given a specific stimuli – whether that be a mental illness, greed, drug-induced psychosis or crime of passion type scenario. Being an INFJ myself, I’m a crime of passion girl – I think waaaaay too much about the future, consequences and effects on other people to go planning a murder. If I don’t like someone, I’ll just be passive aggressive and ignore them til they get the poops and realise they’re wasting their time annoying me. Or I’ll beat them down with logic and show them where the rules/policies/laws clearly define where they are wrong. Bullies hate that.
Based on what I have read about psychopaths so far, I would say that ESTP fits the profile of a psychopath most well.
E – Psychopaths have a superficial charm and often have a promiscuous love life. They are good at manipulating others.
S – Psychopaths live in the here-and-now: they require stimulation or are easily bored. They are sometimes described as emotionally shallow as they do not feel regret or worry about the future.
T – Psychopaths are (short-term) goal oriented and to achieve a certain goal they can think logically without being affected by feelings. They have a cold analytical understanding of emotion, but cannot feel empathy.
P – Psychopaths seems to have little respect for rules and are often good conmen or criminals. They tend to be impulsive (I do not know if this trait fits the more successful “psychopaths in a suit”).
As an INTP myself, I find it very hard to intentionally manipulate other people through social interaction and I feel very uncomfortable about lying. But the biggest difference I see between my own personality and common psychopathic traits is the sensing versus intuition thing; I am very rarely focused on the present. I must add that I believe having certain psychopathic traits would make my life much easier.
Interesting, I’ll keep that in mind. You are very much right though, in many ways.
Thank you.
P.S. I am mortified that I didn’t correct a grammatical error before posting the original comment. Then again, if I were a psychopath, I probably wouldn’t have to care.
Haha toche
But it’s been changed now- you can’t be a psychopath unless your an ESTP now I’m afraid
Psychopaths tend to be charming, extroverted thrill seekers. You can have criminal psychopaths or psychopaths that use their ‘powers’ to become CEOs of large companies. If you look at both kinds you have to have a strong J function. You can’t say “well I will just clean up this body tomorrow” or “darned it now where did I put that knife again” you would not last very long as a psychopathic killer.
You would have to be a sensor, you would have to pay close attention to details and the study of both serial killers and mass killers shows that this is often the case (again if it were not they would not last very long). You also have to be aware of people and be focused on the outside world. Nobody has ever claimed that INTPs are “aware of people and focused on the outside world LOL.
Most Psychopaths are extroverts or a at the least outgoing introverts (most INTPs don’t fall into that category).
As for the T vs F I am not sure that is clear cut, it does not seem that the inability to feel empathy comes from an overactive T function, it seems to be more of a physiological inability to empathize. The anger that drives them is often highly emotional and very illogical (anything illogical makes INTPs itchy, we are allergic to it).
I will agree that a motivated, pissed off, immature INTP can be a dangerous thing if they start down the wrong path, but I think they would typically be the mastermind behind a criminal organization perhaps an Osama Bin laden type, or part of a gang or duo. I can also see a naughty INTP trying something criminal, just to see if they can get away with it (as a kind of puzzle), . But I don’t really see the typical psychopath getting your hands dirty enjoying the killing aspect of it.
It is true INTPs can get very tired sometimes of emotional and illogical people and have idle thoughts about how much better the world would be with fewer of them (especially after reading something like this), but the truth is our P function usually means that we are very unlikely to do anything more than think about doing anything criminal.
I like what you said about the E/I and J/P
I still believe that thinking types are more likely to be psychopaths, because of the empathy in F’s being more prevalent. F’s are more unstable, meaning they are more likely to go insane or have a breakdown- but being a psychopath isn’t about your actions, but about your thinking process. Unless F’s are very unstable, they will show more empathy than T’s. F’s are about solutions for people T’s are about solutions to problems
This blog is just ridiculously sad misinformation.
None of the typings seem to be correct.
Hannibal Lecter and Hitler are both famously typed INTJ; as well as most Psychopathic Serial Killers.
The only thing the author correctly identified was that Thinking (T) correlates with Psychopathy or non-empathy.
T or Thinking consider logic more than whether something is merely appealing to ones emotions (emotions is a selfish analytical tool in itself; serving to make decisions based on the Id (what you want to experience at a given time; i.e. eating an animal, having sex with a rabbit — whatever the Id feels like)) – but it’s more “heart-felt”; there’s cultures around this tool, and therefor “not using it is bad” — but in some sense it’s true that Feelers are more empathic; they forgive easier, and so on — it doesn’t mean they’re any more honest; in fact they’re less intellectually honest, and thus not real future-thinkers, but they tend to appear to be more “mediator”-like than Thinkers, I guess.
The rest of your analysis however is garbage.
In fiction the bad guy is almost always an INTJ; they’re archetypical villains.
In fact I’ve had chats with 2 INTJs in my life (online) – both within the last week.
The first admitted to be racist and not really in contempt of the actions of Anders Breivik (although he had some minor issues with Brevik’s logic).
The second one literally argued with me for over an hour that genocide and murder is a positive thing.
INTPs in fiction are typically the “neutral professor”, working either for the bad or good guys, or both.
A classical example in real life is Albert Einstein; he didn’t participate in war, he didn’t start war, but he did have a role to play in war; due to the fact that others stole and misapplied his work (most likely INTJs).
Another thing is that INTPs often have an INFP on the inside – they want to be understood and like people, but as mentioned by others have an Fe inferiority complex, so they defend themselves by avoiding/supressing emotions.
Ever seen an INTJ trying to be understood or even trying to show genuine sympathy for anyone?
If you have, please share.
Anyway, only Thinking and Judging is correlated to Psychopathy/Ego/Danger.
P’s just want to enjoy life, and won’t hurt a flie unless they’re pushed into a corner by bullies (typically J’s).
And F’s, as mentioned, have a stronger empathical element to them than T’s, so that’s a given.
Actually, I’d say Sensors are probably more dangerous, as they’re prone to make hasty decisions. But it’s not related to Empathy – just ignorance/immaturity.
And Introverted vs Extroverted is a personal preference – an expression of sociability with _average people_ only — because the majority are average.
Some Introverts would have been Extroverted if people were nicer, smarter, more patient, etc (better people/of a higher more appropriate humanistic standard).
Other Introverts would probably have been Extroverted if people were worse too (because some Introverts probably have an overall inferiority complex).
It’s not logical to assume that this goes more in either direction – thus it’s insignificant to the issue of empathy.
When comparing Personality Types to the DSM these are the infamous results;
INTJs to “Narcissistic Personality Disorder”,
INTPs to “Schizoid Personality Disorder”.
Look them up and try figure which of them is the evil one.
Last comment: in the end I think your worst mistake is to throw the word “Psychopath” out there seemingly without having any understanding whatsoever about what it is.
“No empathy” is the only thing you seemed to get out there.
The thing is that INTPs do have emotions and empathy; ask anyone about it, or Google it.
They just don’t like to share it.
While Psychopaths literally don’t feel a thing different at looking at pictures of a holocaust than from looking at pictures of flowers.
Psychopaths lack the functioning to feel emotions on the inside.
Thus all their supposed emotional displays are actually just learned facial expressions.
Psychopaths are quite _non-human_.
ENTJs and possibly INTJs seem to fit this category better than any else — they’re all about obtaining power by any means, and where empathy is _never_ a priority in any case — this differs from the INTP, who might/will consider empathy if absolutely necessary (and also have a strong desire to be empathical, be understood, loved, etc).
Thanks for your feedback, you make solid points, particularly about the villain archetype- INTJ- and the ENTJ/INTJ categorizing at the end. I’ll keep this in mind for future articles
Oh, and for the comment above (nevenera):
Psychopaths don’t kill people out of emotions, neither do Sociopaths.
Both of these kills because they can, because it’s logical to them; because they need to get someone out of their lives, and think they’ll get away with it.
Narcissists are the ones that kills or attack people out of ‘illogical’ anger/rage.
Every type can and will get angry or even rage given the right circumstances though – nothing special there.
I like the rest of your post, though.
Much more informative and inaccurate than this retarded blogger’s garbage x)
T v F has nothing to do with emotions. One is pure logic, the other is based on rational feeling. Both types ‘feel’ emotions, just like neuro-typicals, people with an ASPD diagnosis, and people touting the Hollywood fad of psychopathy.
Most serial killers, if you actually did any credible research, are sensors. They literally get off via the hunt/kill. (There are those who do it for simple convenience, but this has nothing to do with data processing, so we can ignore it). Most are also thinkers, although many are primary feelers too – being a moron doesn’t discriminate based on Jung’s precious pigeonholing system: anyone is capable of rationalizing insanity given enough incentive and time.
If you weigh the averages, the most likely candidate always come up ESTP (ENTJ/ENTP/INTJ are on the narcissism bandwagon too, but hey…it’s just a word). It’s a bummer for all the NT’s sitting at their computers with delusions of grandeur (at least you share some traits though!), but if you’re looking for a badass psychiatric diagnosis, the best you’re likely to get is NPD, which is code for ‘spastic pussy with larger than life inferiority complex.’
And Hitler was an INFJ. That F letter has some serious prejudice.
Hahahahaha, “rational feelings”.
Nice troll, bro.
Only an F would use such (self-delusional) language, and hopefully only a minor portion of them too.
Feelings aren’t logic-based. It’s a very inferior tool for analysis outside the “merely human/animal” or interpersonal domain.
Feelings, outside of this highly restricted and unanalytic domain, is a tool, which valuable information, if any, can only be extracted through T or Logic.
Pure F: I hate people that don’t greet people properly! Pure T (albeit undeveloped/inexperienced, since it’s interested in basic emotions): Hmm, why is that? *insert further questioning*
Feelings tells us something about how we work as animals on the inside.
It’s purpose is “instinctual feedback”, so to be drawn towards our instincts when we’ve drifted off and forgotten to pay attention to them.
There’s nothing in there to tell us about anything but how we feel and are as mere animals.
Keep in mind that 99.9% of people aren’t 100% T and 0% F or vice versa.
Therefor, you might be 90% F, and due to the Dunning Kruger effect you think you’re really logical too for being 10% T and noticing how much insightful “rational feelings” you have.
People only capable of Feelings (0% T, 100% F) are rare and don’t represent the F spectrum, they represent an extreme, like a Psychopath represents the other extreme (100% T, 0% F).
So on the one side you’ve got something like a ADHD vegetable, on the other a Psychopath.
Again – obviously neither represent the spectrum.
And the MBTI wasn’t designed for going to such extremes either, it was designed to evaluate the spectrum.
NTs doesn’t stereotypically sit on their computers (because ENTs doesn’t).
INTs does.
Actually, INs probably stereotypically sit on their computers, and INXPs the most, but INTs are quite the stereotypical computer-people (requires a T to figure out how the computer works, y’know).
And no, NPD doesn’t represent Psychopathy, ASPD does.
ASPD is far worse and more damaging than NPD is.
NPD has the most damaging elements borrowed from ASPD because these people (ASPD/Psychopaths) exist, and actually prevail in society.
If there were no ASPDs, NPDs wouldn’t get anywhere, and their treatment would probably be far easier too (ASPD is untreatable by anything else than brainwashing/LSD etc).
So the “bad-ass” Psychiatric diagnosis is ASPD. NPDs are the wanna-be’s.
F is not about emotion. Fi itself is inner morals and such where as Fe is more outside focused. Both F functions can be very twisted and so can be Te/i. I’d say that the most capable evil people are actually Fs. Ts wont bother to make soap out of starved people. I mean too little fat and such. OK, a crazy ENTP might experiment with that out of curiosity but wouldn’t go for mass production. Some twisted Fs such as Hitler wouldn’t think about the efficiency or related things. It wouldn’t be about the soap itself but rather moralistic symbolism and such.
Twisted Fi-Te axis looks like narcissism where as twisted Fe-Ti axis leans towards sociopathic behavior.
I make many of my decisions based on Fi. I’m not an utilitarian. F vs T is more like philosophical standpoint.
Thank you! (:
Hi luv,
“So the “bad-ass” Psychiatric diagnosis is ASPD. NPDs are the wanna-be’s.”
Thanks for the support, Always nice to have people reaffirm my opinions I guess.
As for NPD vs psychopathy – Hare himself has refuted the mutual exclusivity of narcissism and anti social behavior. “A narcissist is a psychopath who has assimilated the emotions of the character he is playing” – Without Conscience, R Hare MD. – the only real difference is the motivation, or the lengths one will go to achieve the impetus of their character.
There is no difference, really, except that the NPD is a chronically aggressive pussy and the basketcase uses aggression to indulge his color blind feelings. One is egoistic, one is semi devoid of ego. There is a huge range of personality in the ASPD spectrum, and it’s rare to encounter someone without self conceptualization. Ergo, they are narcissists with soft, squishy emotions.
Funnily, I’ve seen the MBTI results of two incarcerated people who DO fit the criteria, and they were both ENTJ. But…this doesn’t change the statistics – ESTP has a pronounced proclivity towards malignant narcissism, whether it’s because we see so much of it compared to other preferences, who cares?
And I am such a Feeler you wouldn’t even believe. I’m captain irrational, major illogic, queen quintessential. But I’m just trolllllllin’
Please tell me you’re kidding/trolling.
“All Psychopaths are Narcissists, but not all Narcissists are Psychopaths”.
Said by Robert Hare himself.
I’m sorry, I can’t find your quote on any even slightly credible sites (that is: only found it on a couple of random blogs), can you source it?
It actually sounds pretty ridiculous, and it’s against all understanding of NPD, other than the reversed relationship; that Psychopaths are Narcissists.
No, not all ASPDs are NPDs, that’s a dual diagnosis that most ASPDs don’t have.
They might have some shared traits, because they’re both Personality Disorders; in fact almost every Personality Disorder has shared traits.
ASPDs are not with soft squishy emotions, the reverse is true: ASPDs have very few if any emotions, NPDs are very emotionally vulnerable, so they explode at every negative emotional suggestion.
Both NTJs are famous for being malicious creatures, bordering on ASPD and NPD respectively ENTJ to ASPD, INTJ to NPD).
Don’t be so harsh on yourself — your facts are terrible, but at least you’re trying to make sense, and it seems that you might be on that path, if you just continue getting coached by your paid NT counselor.
NTJs aren’T malicious creatures, because their introvert intuition they are detach from world so they have to fake to obtain what they want…they are no bad but only too future oriented so they can t stay whit their feet in the world
I don’t understand [the validity of] your argument.
Half (8x) of the MBTI types has Ni. I was criticizing 2x personality types; XNTJs.
Ni isn’t even either XNTJs primary function.
They both have Te-Ni though, so that might be why.
Honestly I think your argument is pretty much void.
I can understand if you’re critizing some supernatural elements of “evil”, because as an NT I agree that it’s unlikely that real “evil” exist and instead everything is natural, but there still is natural evil; i.e. those who care more about themselves, devour everything, etc.
For example, in Wikipedia ENTJs are described with this Philosophy: “I make these little plans that really don’t have any importance to anyone else, and then feel compelled to carry them out.”
You can argue about nature all you want, but this type of personality is more dangerous than most others, and has less potential for goodness or humanity (empathy, common wealth, equality, etc) than most or all of the other types, because they never care about considering any of these aspects.
And talking about not staying with their feet in the world?
Isn’t that all INXXs or maybe all Ns?
Of course, I repeat; not all NTJs are bad – not at all.
They have a place in the world, if they mature properly.
But they don’t have natural tendencies to be likely do good (compared to other personalities) in the world.
I don’t care what the reason is – the fact remains that they don’t, and that’s very problematic.
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INTPs? Nah, I know a few INTPs and they don’t strike me as psychopaths. This article is stupid, sorry but just had to say that. Fiction or not is irrelevant. INTPs also don’t tend to be good social manipulators. At best, their inferior Fe function tends to make them social nonconformists – not emotionless evil people. People with AsPD are sensation seekers, con men and manipulative. A typical INTPs possess none of these traits. MBTI typically only covers normal psychology – psychopaths are abnormalities.
Thanks for your feedback. I appreciate all your comments, they’ve all been analytical and well thought out. In appreciation, I’ve changed the type in this blog article to ESTP. I hope you keep using the site
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Wow! Found this blog searching Myers Briggs & serial killer. I’ve been watching a FB forum make mincemeat out of a young man whose fiance disappeared in August ’11. She was found dead in April of this year in an illegal dumping ground in the countryside just over the state line in Indiana. Very artsy girl about to graduate with her degree in graphic design. Held 2 jobs and went to school at the same time.
Just thought I would do a little googling to see if there was some info on the most likely type to kill. Appreciate the ESTP army major analysis above! SP’s especially males come off to me as major thrill seekers. I’m guessing that Glen Rogers was an SP temperament. Any who want to make an analysis of our local case, it can be found at FB page “Katelyn Markhams disappearance considering everything.” I’ve listened to the tapes that they post saying it proves he killed her (in so many words), and scratch my head. I don’t hear it. I’m thinking maybe he is an INFP and the missing girl an XNFJ. He definitely isn’t good with words. The police chief said in April that he is not a person of interest at this time, but that doesn’t phase the forum. I’ve been called an idiot more than once for not being able to see the obvious by the forum INTP so got a laugh out of some of the comments in this string.
I’m an ENTP or INTP they told me to pick which fits best because I’m in the middle on the E/I. From reading, pretty sure I began life as an INFP. Environmental factors and life moved me more to T, but still not strong T.
Thanks for the comment E/INTP!
It is interesting hearing your story
What environmental factors were at play do you think that led you to become a T?
Regarding narcissism, it seems to me that there is much more at play than personality. “Malignant Self Love” seemed to me pretty good at showing the traits of a narcissist. Lack of fear and lack of guilt and remorse remove the brakes put on most people, inability to empathize or feel emotion, other than anger. Seems to me possibly for majority of narcissists that something went awry in their youth. Particularly beating small children before they are age 6 or so must have an influence.
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