Te + Di

Markers of Unusual Combinations of Functions: Te + Di

The selection of items for the corresponding scales characterizing markers of the simultaneous manifestation of two functions (and only them) is carried out in two stages. First, approximately three times more items are selected that satisfy a dual condition:

1. Both functions in the profile of the given item are above average;
2. The sum of the peaks of these two functions in the profile is maximal — both in absolute magnitude and in the share of variance associated with them.

At the second stage, the list of items is reduced several times using a neural network that brings the functional and trait profiles of the scale, based on the remaining items, closer to the ideal form of the final scale profile — that is, one where only the two target functions remain positive, with approximately equal magnitude, and in the trait profile all traits go to zero except those forming these two functions.

1. I have a constant habit of thinking about how my affairs can affect the business interests of other people.
2. I have noticed that I remember much easier those events and moments that are connected with my movement in space (for example, while walking, or in a car while it is moving, etc.)
3. I can maintain an active and energetic activity for a long time, getting by without sleep and without food.
4. Sometimes I admonish my acquaintances that they should not be offended, but, on the contrary, be grateful to those people who accept work from them - work, perhaps, not of the best quality.
5. Sometimes my jaw tightens as if in a cramp.
6. I am against “harsh” decisions.
7. In most cases, I am a person of action, not reasoning.
8. I easily adapt to other people’s opinions when there is a need.
9. It is true that I usually do not take it well if someone “sticks out” and gives rise to controversy.
10. Laughter without subsequent concrete benefit in the form of money or popularity is most often a meaningless exercise.
11. I always take responsibility for everything that happens only on myself, without trying to find “external” reasons for successes or failures.
12. Most often I feel indifference, a lack of strong desires and interest in anything. 13. It is true that I do not like sincere and naively selfless civil activists in any form.
13. I am almost always confident in the rightness of my bosses.
14. It is true that I extremely rarely write or talk out loud about my plans - I always prefer to keep them strictly in my head to myself. 16. I tolerate pain better than others.
15. I never admit that I don’t have something I need - after all, you can always search longer and find something suitable.
16. My pulse is usually rare, less than 65 beats per minute.
17. In the vast majority of cases, I easily manage my emotions and have no problem controlling their outward expression.
18. I have a calm, patient and friendly character.
19. I always avoid confrontations and clashes.
20. I don’t care about momentary feelings - life is long.
21. I usually don’t pay attention to random minor violations of my personal rights and don’t react.
22. I hit the ball into the basketball hoop more accurately than others. 25. What irritates me most often in other people is: 1) Their indifference 5) Their shamelessness and lack of conscience
23. The criterion of truth is material benefit; only that which is useful to me personally is right.
24. Practical benefit is more important than any perfect, motionless beauty.
25. I easily manage my physical sensations and can completely ignore them if I want to.
26. It seems to me that people around me often use me for their own interests without asking me about it.
27. I try not to be part of anyone’s “drama” and I can remain indifferent to the pathos or outrage of society.
28. Public peace is more important than the truth.
29. It is true that I do not like “troublemakers” who act across or contrary to the general movement and upset the balance in society.
30. I can adapt to any established state of affairs.
31. I believe that arguing with public opinion is an activity for idiots.
32. I can easily and without problems walk alone at night through a dark forest or cemetery with indifference.
33. The Chinese system, in which people earn “social points” through their behavior in society, on which their rights then depend, is rather a good, useful system.
34. I rarely say out loud everything that I really think, more often I simply nod along with my interlocutor.
35. I can easily spend the whole day without smiling once.
36. It is true that it is very difficult to provoke me to laugh or to rejoice violently.
37. My main principle is the principle of usefulness. Not beauty or harmony (whether they will be in scientific theory or in the soul - it makes no difference to me), but precisely and only usefulness for practical activity - that is what I value most of all.
38. You are faced with the following situation: a trolley in a mountain tunnel has lost its brakes, and it is rushing straight at five children sitting on the rails, about twenty meters from you. But next to you is an elderly and very fat worker, a fat man, who was at fault for the trolley being derailed, and if you throw him onto the rails, his body will certainly brake the trolley and save the children. Will you be able to push him onto the rails in front of the trolley? (firm “YES” = 5; rather yes = 4; rather no = 2; firm “NO” = 1).
39. It is true that I do not like excessive cleverness around anything.
40. I do not value people’s sympathies, this can be acquired, but rather a stable system of useful acquaintances and connections.
41. For what would you be more pleased to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics? 1) for developing a coherent general field theory explaining the currently known facts of the origin of the Universe 5) for developing the theory and fundamentals of the technology of mass production of super-strong carbon fiber.
42. Abstract justice is harmful stupidity.
43. Of all the colors, I would prefer a calm and even, neutral gray.
44. I am a very patient person.
45. I am not interested in theoretical discussions.
46. My positive emotions on my face are very rarely noticed and understood by anyone.
47. I go to bed early and get up early in the morning.
48. I sometimes consider overly emotional people to be hysterical and buffoons, and I prefer not to allow them into my work.
49. I am like everyone else, and I want to be like everyone else - no smarter and no dumber, no worse and no better.
50. I value and respect most of all people who know the correct and optimal technologies for acting in any situation.
51. I would like the professions of a railway locomotive driver or the head of the supply department of a manufacturing company. 55. I have a calm, confident voice.
52. It is usually easier for me than others to come to terms with any existing order, even if I consider it wrong.
53. I do not like any kind of ascending buildup of experiences - neither in life nor in books.
54. Even if I wanted to, I find it difficult to speak in long, fluent sentences, and to understand someone else’s fluent speech.
55. Sometimes I find it difficult to quickly shift my visual attention between two or more objects.
56. I always pay attention to the benefit, calculation, and expediency of actions.
57. I think more often about the next week than about what will happen to the world in three years.
58. I believe that no reforms should break what the prevailing public opinion has long been accustomed to and committed to, even if the reformers have the strength and resources to overcome it.
59. In everyday life, I can be content with the bare minimum for a long time.
60. When communicating with a person, I proceed only from the specifics of the given moment, without using guesses about it - for me, guesses are an area of ​​​​the unreliable and unverifiable.
61. I am not at all passionate.
62. My friends and family would say that I adhere to traditional values.
63. I like people who understand the motives of other people’s behavior, who are able to both give advice in this area and skillfully shame someone else’s immorality.
64. It is easy for me to hide my views - I can do it without effort. 69. Usually I proceed from the fact that old and proven keys will definitely be found and fit everything new.
65. I am a supporter of the principle of collective responsibility.
66. I am not much different from other people.
67. People who satisfy their needs in an unconventional way cause me the strongest rejection.
68. What is more characteristic of you? - 1) The thrill of passion. 5) The thrill of knowing that your position is stable, strong and secure.
69. It is true that I am not surprised by anything.
70. Security is usually more valuable than various freedoms.
71. My aura is soft and calming, responsive to joy, but devoid of bright emotions.
72. I would like the job of a sanitary and epidemiological inspector more (in terms of the nature and content of the work) than the job of an architect.
73. It is difficult for me to speak quickly.
74. As a child, I liked instructive fables more than fairy tales.
75. I am distinguished by my business acumen, caring for my loved ones, practicality and thriftiness.
76. Tears almost never come to my eyes, even when there is every reason to cry.
77. It is true that I am not an anxious person at all.
78. I love effective simplicity in everything, without embellishment.
79. I like to be like everyone else.
80. I have a bad attitude towards any kind of poetry, their images are alien to me. I see no point in attributing the properties of one object to a completely different object - for example, calling grass silky (it is not silky), the sky deep (a well may be deep, not the sky), or comparing hair to the sun, and eyes to the stars. It is all absurd and incomprehensible.
81. I see only good in the fact that absolutely every young man or woman should work for a year of their life as a simple worker in a factory or in construction.
82. A person must submit to the opinion of the majority.
83. The opinion of the majority of the people is always the most correct opinion.
84. I am very reserved about any kind of enthusiasm - it never helps anyone, but only disorients people.
85. I often strive to simplify rather than complicate the structure of the subject of my thoughts.
86. I have learned to curb and hide my emotions.
87. I rarely think about transforming the world and much more often try to find a place for myself within the framework of an already existing, dominant system.
88. I am always hyper-focused on what I am doing.
89. I often feel a certain “emotional dullness” - in any case, I get too little pleasure from reading books or talking with people.
90. I think about the fate of the world and humanity: 1) Often, more often than others 3) Like everyone else 5) Rarely
91. I am usually afraid of everything unknown - it seems safer to stay in the already mastered world together with everyone else.
92. Emotionality, from my point of view, is absolutely always just a trifle, which, moreover, often interferes with an adequate assessment of the objective state of affairs.
93. My gaze quickly notices any sources of potential danger in the surrounding space.
94. If I were a pharmacologist, I would prefer to work on new antibiotics rather than on drugs for cancer and AIDS.
95. If I am in a bad mood, I avoid telling anyone about it.
96. If there is magic in films and books, then for this reason alone I usually become uninteresting and often even unpleasant.
97. Emotions are valuable only if they maintain the stability that has already been established in the world.
98. It is true that I never speak out loud about my pain, fear, hunger or fatigue, even if I experience them.
99. My imagination is skeptical of ideas that are too all-encompassing and shocking, contradicting conventional wisdom.
100. I am calm and good-natured by nature, respect traditions, and bring stability with me.
101. A discord of opinions always does more harm than good.
102. I don’t like philosophizing.
103. I believe that if a person moves across the direction of his herd, then this is not at all reasonable.
104. Stagnation is better than revolutionary movement.
105. The authority of the simple working man, directly working in the field, on construction sites, or at the machine, must be sharply raised in the country.