Which MBTI Types Are The Most Curious?

A general trend you can expect for the most curious types, is that they tend to be dominant and auxiliary extroverted intuitive types. Extroverted intuiting is a perceiving function that is dedicated towards finding the bigger meaning behind the surface details, making this function one of the most innately curious functions possible.

As a result, when it comes to curiosity on learning new information about theoretical items, the INTP or ENTP types are usually the most curious but, their curiosity also typically extends to different places.

The INTP is specifically curious about learning new information, since their dominant introverted thinking function gets stimulated from learning new information. This can make them very prone to spending hours and hours reading random articles on wikipedia on the anatomy of ants just because they came across it and it interested them. They are usually filled with all types of random facts.

The ENTP is also very curious about learning new information, but their focus on learning new information is usually so that they can use their knowledge of some principles to generate new ideas with their dominant Extroverted Intuition function. ENTPs are very curious about how ideas come together and using them in new ways.

On the other end, the ENTPs polar opposite, the ENFP type, is the most curious on information about other people, along with the INFP type who has their own fair share of curiosity on other people. The ENFP is the type who wants to know your life story, while the INFP will tend to be more discreet about how they extract the same information from you.

Overall, for curiosity in the academic sense, INTP is the likely winner. INTPs love learning random facts, even if they see no immediate use for it. They store the information away to use in the far distant future, waiting patiently for the day that they may one day be able to incorporate their knowledge into something useful, but even if they can’t, thats quite alright with them. As a result, I would say INTPs are the most curious type, from the way people would initially perceive “curious” in the mainstream sense.