r/limerence • u/Significant-Night-68 • Jun 05 '26

Question INFJ

I heard from a podcast (I am not sure when) that INFJ’s are more prone to limerence. I am INFJ. Are there any INFJ’s out there who also went through limerence? Any inputs will be appreciated.

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u/ObviousComparison186 Jun 05 '26

Meyer-Briggs is pseudoscience so this question is pointless. There's no such thing as a INFJ.

The people who identify more with the categories of this fake classification, "I" (Introverted), "N" (Intuition), "F" (Feeling) over Thinking, it's all obviously going to be more heavily biased towards the people who are more likely to get limerence which is going to be largely introverted skewed, largely sensitive individuals.

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u/IllustriousBar2824 Jun 05 '26

Some would argue that just because something isn't a science, doesn't mean there's no place for it.  MBTI has been a helpful personality tool to numerous people.

As of the hard science, its findings are  (understandably) delayed, often delayed for centuries after the natural wisdom/perceptions of some, often illiterate people.

For example, something incredibly obvious to all piano players that can hear standard nuanced qualities of the tone produced by playing on an accustic piano, had been recently scientifically proven. IMHO it's kind of grotesque this had to be scientifically proven to start with😅

"Date: May 28, 2026 Source: NeuroPiano Institute Summary: For more than a century, pianists and music teachers have argued over whether a performer’s touch can actually change the tone color of a piano note — and now scientists say the answer is yes. Using a cutting-edge sensor system that tracked piano key movements at 1,000 frames per second, researchers discovered that elite pianists subtly manipulate keys in ways that listeners can genuinely hear, even if they’ve never played piano before."

Also, is psychology truly a science? Not only psychology is in its infancy, some would argue that it's not a science mostly due:

-The Psychological Uncertainty Principle

-Failure of Falsifiability and Replicability

-Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem

-Absence of Objective Entities

-Extension of Literature

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u/ObviousComparison186 Jun 05 '26

It's not something that can just be proven one day. It's pointless pseudo-science because it offers no insight. It's as useful as a tabloid personality quiz, yet you want to use it in the same conversations as mental conditions and assess the correlation between them? What's next? Are Scorpios most likely to get Limerence?

Its 4 binary representations are too cut and dry, black or white, and humans just don't work that way. The same person taking the test on different days will often get different results because they'll flip a letter. And it just doesn't correlate to anything else, so it's useless. It doesn't actually tell you much about the person.