Just a pure observation:
xNFJs tend to be really particular from what I've seen, but I question whether that has to do with the judging function since I haven't seen the behavior from xNFPs, but I have seen it from other types that possess J like ESFJs, however, this could also be due to functional preferences.
I was on a consulting project with two INFJs. From what I noticed:
- I am interviewing INFJ for his opinions on problems. He walked into the room and there were several chairs. He placed his jacket on one chair and proceeded to sit down across from me. Right as I am asking him a question, he gets up and fixes his jacket so it would lay flat on the chair.
- We are mid-meeting with a company and the INFJ lead asks for a break so she can get up and fix the blinds (once of the slats was crooked).
- Various other little traits like where objects were to be placed, etc. I once decided to mess with the lead INFJ. She would also place her keys to one side of her so when she got up, I would switch her keys to the other side.
If NFs do in fact have a predilection for particularity, I would say its because most are in tune with their environment, though in a different way than sensors are. I enjoyed the INFJ lead because she would pick up on subtleties of the people around her: it was impossible to hide mood changes, tonal changes, or body language from her. In the same way, I think she looked to her environment to be in its proper place for her to be comfortable.
FWIW, I've seen questions about seating preferences in personality quizzes and as far as I can tell, folks that prefer to be on the outer edges of rooms are more likely to be introverted. I think maybe it makes it easier to observe unobserved and to escape if the situation becomes overwhelming.
I once sat for a lecture from an architect. When he took the reigns from a firm, he decided to hire a psychologist. She stated that if you watch a room fill up with people, the edges tend to fill up first. People like their backs to the wall, because they like to see out in front of them. She attributed this to evolutionary biology: that people want things to be oriented in their line of sight and they feel vulnerable when they are surrounded on all sides. She also said that edges typically allow for escape to the side.
So, when they designed classrooms, they liked to build case rooms that were elevated (as seen
here) so that both parties - the professor and students - feel that they have their back to something. The room is also oriented to more conversation since the seating is curved. When designing offices, they took advantage of partitions so that people felt they had their own space to work at and the design of the dividers could be adjusted for how open the company wanted the layout to be. Same when designing restaurants: they used a series of partitions to break up the room and make every seat feel booth like, but they adjusted the heights of partitions (some were floor to ceiling, some weren't) to adjust the openness of the space. They even added space dividers that included a horizontal glass fountain or plants around the bar, so people sitting in the stools still felt that there was a wall behind them (she also claimed this was because greenery and water put people at ease again due to evolution: when humans see greenery, they associate that with food and water).
It's interesting that it is broken down further to introversion or extraversion. I never thought about the connection before.