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[MENTION=9811]Coriolis[/MENTION] In her book, Helen Fisher makes a difference between 4 personalities, each of them driven by a hormone
* The Explorers (Dopamine) (she even refers to MBTI briefly, touches upon the fact that these differences in personality have already been noted before)
* The Builders (Serotonine)
* The Directors (Testosterone)
* The Negotiators (Estrogen)
She also touches upon the fact that the primary is often coupled with a secondary, giving slight differences in personality. As such, it is possible to be a Negotiator in the primary, as estrogen is most present in your body, but you have as a secondary a Director-streak, due to a quite high amount of testosterone influencing your behavior as well. I'd wager many male NFs fit that bill.
From what I can tell, most SJs would be Builders and serotonine driven in their primary, and most SPs would be dopamine-driven as Explorers. NF seems to correspond with estrogen, and NT with testosterone. This is very generally speaking.
I'm not completely sure I trust an anthropologist to talk accurately about neuroscience. Anthropology isn't even science, let alone biology, let alone neurobiology. This part seems pretty uhh...nonscientific to this biologist - I can guarantee that a physically normal male NF does not have higher estrogen levels (or lower testosterone) than a physically normal female NT. Associating traits with real hormones doesn't make things scientific, any more than astrology is scientific because Venus exists.