Am I A (Rational) Feeler?

If you hurt someone’s feelings when explaining your reasoning, do you always do everything possible to make sure you both feel okay after?

Do you notice the break in logic, but do you choose to ignore people’s logical fallacies because you don’t want to hurt their feelings?

Do you lead from the head as well as the heart, but maybe a little more from the heart?

In an argument, do you usually choose to follow the emotional dynamics over the verbal dynamics (i.e., are you more interested in why the person feels the way he feels)?

Based on your answers, you are unlikely to be a rational feeler. This means that you probably are either more a thinker, or more a feeler. People are usually divided in thinkers and feelers, which refers to how they prefer to take decisions either by objective logic or subjective feeling. A person’s natural tendency toward one will be stronger than the other. Most females are feelers, while the majority of males are thinkers. However, there is this type of person who seems to be both a feeler and a thinker: the rational feeler who focuses on both feelings and logic.

Based on your answers, you are displaying one or two signs of being a rational feeler. It’s more probable that you lean more heavily towards being either a feeler or a thinker. Thinkers are objective, they make decisions based on facts. Feelers make decisions based on principles and values. They are ruled by their heart, while thinkers are ruled by their head. While people are most of the time divided in feelers and thinkers, there are some people who don’t fit in either of the two, but have a little bit of both worlds. These are the rational feelers.

Based on your answers, you are displaying the signs typically seen among individuals who are rational feelers. This means that you are not emotionally driven, neither a logic avoider. You might feel the need to let emotions cloud your reasoning, but you are still able to control that. If you find balance, you have the ability to listen to both reason and emotion. That’s actually a well-rounded life!