I don't think age should be a factor in this. There have been plenty of old people who believe in ghosts.
Now this sounds defensive. And we weren't talking about believing in ghosts -- I was talking about being gullible and easily duped. Since you know you aren't psychic and were able to convince your friend otherwise.
My point is, you both
sound young (to me) and that this scenario seems much more age related than purely type related. I remember in highschool almost every student had some passing interest in hypnotism, ghosts, scary stories, ouija boards, divination, astrology, etc. People from different classes and cliques would all talk about it or engage in it (spirits, visiting fortune tellers, etc.)
Even through college people played with Ouija boards and fortune telling and visited abandoned hospitals to look for ghosts and such. It's pretty common for the age, I'm sure someone could even come up with biological or evolutionary reasoning for it. It's also why a big chunk of horror and 'supernatural' movies have highschool and college aged kids as protaganists. And I really doubt I went to a highschool or college filled with ENFPs (that woulda been something).
There's also a reason cults specifically target the young (and intellectually curious) like college students.
And I will readily admit, when I was 16 or even 19...or 22, I was
muchmore likely to take people at face value, accept claims I now consider outlandish, and basically humor people.
And what's this on tone? You totally misread me because I do not instinctually feel and care about smartness.
Well it's not a matter of whether you say you consciously care, you can still feel superior to someone else intellectually. In fact, some of the most arrogant people I've encountered say they don't care about intelligence, because you know, they're above all that.
I did not even infer that all ENFPs are dumb. As an entj, my words stand as they are. I do not say things with an emphasis on ulterior motives. I think ENFPs may have a susceptibility to fantastical thing that are on a tangent with a Peter Pan complex.
ENFP and their fantasies
Anyways here's an empircal evidence of a real life ENFP!
Well, technically
I was inferring from your post that you think ENFPs are dumb.
I know this is a MBTI site (or MBTT as Ezra likes to say) but this part of your post sounds more like blanket type casting or using a few kernels of truth to back up much extrapolation.
I know I'm not the best candidate to say that ENFPs are
not youthful or enjoy the whimsical (I mean, I have a freaking avatar of CGI arcade game characters and a smiley face as a signature) however, there is such a thing as caricatures and taking the easy way out.
I think sometimes people read the back of a book or skim some paragraphs on a type website and suddenly opinions balloon into 'facts' and all this personal/age/cultural/what-eva stuff gets conflated with 'type'. Every type has it's related stereotype, and it's VERY easy to twist theory, state the stereotype, and then throw in a few websites or even books that will back it up.
I'm not necessarily saying this is exactly what you did, because I don't know where you or your post are coming from, but I've seen enough of this even on this site to be wary of it. I'm especially wary of it when it comes to my shared type and frankly immature or just unwise behavior gets attributed to "being ENFP".
Maybe (and I'm stretching here to be diplomatic) these are examples of behavior as someone matures into the healthy, full-grown state of their type where their functions are well developed and well rounded...??
Now why don't you go take some candy from a baby?
