Originally Posted by crisc
I wanted to just bump this up for some of the new members.
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crisc - thanks! I almost started a new thread about this.

P.S. I wanted to out myself as an organized ENFP (almost INFP).

Here's an abstract on some recent (ish) research done on gifties and Myers-Briggs:

Gifted Child Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 3, 285-294 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0016986207302723


Psychological Types of Academically Gifted Adolescents
Tracy L. Cross
Ball State University

Kristie L. Speirs Neumeister

Ball State University

Jerrell C. Cassady

Ball State University

This study provides descriptive information about the psychological types of a sample of 931 gifted adolescents who attended a public residential academy. Psychological types are assessed with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The MBTI reports on four pairs of personality types: Extraversion/Introversion (E/I), Sensing/Intuition (S/N), Thinking/Feeling (T/F), and Judging/Perceiving (J/P). Overall, the most common types reported by this sample were INTJ, INTP, INFP, ENFP, and ENTP. Comparisons between gifted and norming samples are reported. Gender differences for the gifted sample were found on E/I, with males orienting toward I and females orienting toward E. Gender-specific comparisons between gifted and norming samples reveal that gifted females had a greater tendency toward I and T, and gifted males had a greater tendency for I. Overall, both genders in the gifted sample tended to be NP types.


Key Words: gifted � gifted adolescents � personality � Myers-Briggs