Now that you have answered the questionnaire you may proceed to the next part of this adventure by reviewing the letters you have selected above to find your probable temperament and that of your spouse.  The General Description of this temperament is shown below.

Link to other types
Link to negotiations matrix

General Description of INTPs

• - Tend to see distinctions and inconsistences in thought and language.
• - Detect contradictions in statements.
• - Only statements that are logical and coherent carry weight.
• - External authority per se is irrelevant.
• - Prize intelligence.
• - Intellectual dilettantes.
• - Obsessed with analysis.
• - May show impatience at times with others less endowed intellectually.
• - Arrogant.
• - Should not be asked to work out the implementation or application of their models.
• - They may have difficulty expressing their emotions verbally.
• - Are very adaptable until one of their principles is violated.
• - INTP architect.
• - Reluctance to state the obvious.
• - Questions everything and bases answers on laws and principles.
• - An excellent decision maker and can be counted on to remember and to honor decisions.
• - "Portrait painter of ideas."
• - Imaginative.
• - Responsive to whatever new data present themselves.
• - Make a coherent whole out of an endlessly proliferating amount of data.
• - All thoughts, ideas and plans, however final they seem, are subject to last-minute changes when "new data', from either internal or external influences, become available.
• - They are the first to knock down their own theories or correct themselves with a better word or improved idea.
• - Create a plan open-ended enough to allow for improvements.
• - Wants to critique and improve the "rough draft."
• - Once an INTP thinks a project through, he or she may lose interest in it.
• - When an INTP female's feeling side does surface, it often does so with an intensity, an outpouring that can be frightening to both herself and others.

• This type may be eager to negotiate.  They will study the concept of negotiations and be interested in looking at mediation and negotiating options as contrasted with litigation.  They may       want to know more about negotiation.
• This type will look for common values that can be shared and will apply them to disputes.
• Will be good at working out facts and figures.
• Once agreement is reached, this type will not want to return to the subject.  It's now complete (closed).
• Careful of details.
• This type will look for "win-win" options - a good problem solver.
• This type can handle complications until it seems too repetitious.
• Likes problem-solving.
• They can handle intense negotiations.

Weaknesses as negotiators

• Under stress the INTP may have pain and distress that is new and not understood.  No outlet for terrible internal pain and loss.  May find it difficult to meet his spouse.
• The INTP doesn't take care of himself enough - not tuned in to own personal needs.  What INTP sees as fair may skip their own         personal needs.
• The INTP may become highly positional where intensely personal issues are involved or where his space is invaded.
• They need to think before deciding.
• It is hard for INTPs to communicate their feelings while negotiating.
• They get lost if details are repetitious.
• May have trouble concentrating on specifics.
• They may have trouble coming to a final decision.
• INTPs may put too many items on the agenda.
• They may become hairsplitting in details.
• If it gets too personal the INTP may withdraw.
• If it gets too emotional the INTP may forget what was said.

How INTPs see themselves as negotiators

• They are creative, logical, reasonable.
• They are accurate, tough-minded and fair.
• They seek justice.

How others see INTPs as negotiators

• They are seen as cold, repressed and arrogant.
• They are seen as uncaring about people.

How to work positively with other types

• Appreciate your ability to adapt.
• Appreciate your ability to be creative and insightful.

The information in these links describe how each of these temperaments interacts with the others in the context of divorce negotiations.