THE SOCIAL NORMATIVITY INDEX is calculated as the correlation between a particular respondent’s raw responses to all questionnaire items and the mean intertype response values (across the entire large sample) for those same items.

First, let us explain what the mean intertype value is – because Social Normativity is calculated on the basis of it.

If some indicator (for example, the raw response score on a particular item) has its own mean value in each of the 16 type groups, then further averaging of this indicator, but now across all 16 type groups, ultimately yields the required MEAN INTERTYPE VALUE.

In their responses to individual specific questionnaire items, some type groups differ from the MEAN INTERTYPE VALUE slightly more, others – slightly less. But the matter lies not only and not so much in the type group as in the individuality of the person. In the presence of psychopathologies (and especially – sociopathy), a person’s responses begin to deviate strongly from the intertype mean regardless of membership in any particular type group.

High values of the “Social Normativity” index correspond to the case in which the respondent answers in most cases “like the majority,” deviating little in the raw scores of their responses from the mean intertype value for each particular questionnaire item. Accordingly, low values of the “Social Normativity” index correspond to the case of the “White Crow” - such a person very often gives responses that deviate strongly from the usual mean.

In essence, the “Social Normativity” index mainly captures the elongated “tails” of items with an asymmetric (skewed) population distribution. If a person often answers “1” when most people of all types give a mean response to that item of about 4, and, conversely, answers “5” when most give a response of about 2, then that person will ultimately receive a low “social normativity” score.

THE SOCIAL NORMATIVITY INDEX is used in socionic diagnostic questionnaires as a control index. If the questionnaire is answered honestly, then for all respondents without exception it falls within the range from 0,12 to 0,50. This includes psychopaths and mentally ill people, for whom it also usually remains within this range, although it is pressed toward its lower boundary. But if, instead of considered responses, a person fills out the questionnaire - as a joke - simply with random numbers, then the social normativity index drops all the way to zero. And if the index suddenly turns out to be negative, such a value already quite unambiguously indicates that, for the sake of a foolish experiment, the person answered “by contradiction” - for example, when they wanted to put “5,” they deliberately put the answer “1” almost everywhere, and vice versa (possibly naively expecting in this way to be typed as their Conflictor).

But what we now want to illuminate is something else, namely - the substantive (psychological) side of high and low values of this index in those cases where questionnaire responses are given honestly. That is, to provide averaged psychological characteristics of those people for whom this index is pressed toward its approximate lower boundary (people with low social normativity), and separately of those for whom, conversely, it rises to the upper values of its usual range (people with high social normativity).

First, it should be emphasized immediately that social normativity has nothing whatsoever to do with the value orientation of “being like everyone else.” Thus, for example, the following items:

1. I am normal and “average” in the overwhelming majority of my manifestations.
2. I like being like everyone else.
3. I practically always follow the main direction of fashion - like everyone else.

• are positively correlated with the pole not of high but, precisely, low social normativity. Conversely, the item “I would be very upset if I were regarded as just as simple and ordinary as everyone else” - is correlated with high social normativity!

This is because low social normativity reflects not the personal value of originality at all, but personality deviations – and first and foremost those among them that are more often reflected in personality questionnaires oriented predominantly toward features of a person’s social behavior. Therefore, among all such personality deviations with which a low social normativity index is “coupled,” sociopathy naturally occupies first place.

ITEM-LEVEL CORRELATES OF LOW AND HIGH SOCIAL NORMATIVITY

(after each item, its correlation with social normativity is indicated – positive for the high-normativity pole, negative – for the low-normativity pole)

1. I know how to use fear to influence people. -0,45
2. Sympathies toward a country competing with one’s homeland or toward a company competing with your employer - already constitute betrayal. -0,41
3. I am in favor of people strictly observing religious rules and traditions. -0,38
4. In relations with people, I often use the following method: without cause, tighten the leash - without cause, loosen the leash, tighten the leash again - loosen the leash… And so many times. The result is the required fear, confusion, and obedience. -0,38
5. Ideally, every nation should have its own state religion. -0,38
6. Sometimes it seems to me that the people currently present in the room are behaving unusually and may be plotting something against my interests. -0,37
7. Autocratic rule is better than any democracy. -0,37
8. I have been diagnosed with so-called “diabetes insipidus,” and for treatment I was prescribed vasopressin, desmopressin, or lypressin preparations. -0,36
9. I need the power to subordinate and command not for some purpose - it is pleasant in itself. -0,36
10. I think I have more ill-wishers than friends. -0,36
11. Publicly admitting one’s mistake - means damaging one’s authority. -0,35
12. I will never ask for a favor, so as not to feel humiliated, - it is easier for me to coerce and compel another person. -0,35
13. Only a system of subordination can be just, not a system of equality. -0,35
14. My principle is: “what I do not see - does not exist.” -0,34
15. The harsher and firmer the regime, the better it is. -0,34
16. Another person’s life is useful to the extent that it is useful to me. -0,33
17. I possess the ability to seek out and find enemies for myself, and then punish them. -0,33
18. Fulfilling someone’s requests, readily agreeing to accommodate them - most often is the same as experiencing humiliation. -0,33
19. I have had some rheumatic infections (rheumatic carditis, endocarditis, rheumatism, etc.) -0,32
20. I am completely indifferent to what people think of me. -0,32
21. I am a gambler; sometimes I can lose quite a lot of money at a casino or on slot machines. -0,32
22. I am in favor of the law establishing the harshest punishments for betraying the interests of one’s own state. -0,32
23. The world of any individual person is only part of the common fate of the state, and nothing more. -0,32
24. A strong person does not make mistakes. -0,31
25. As a child, I liked instructive fables more than fairy tales. -0,31
26. Proper government should be built “from the top down,” while talk about democracy - is for the wretched. -0,31
27. I am against the unrestricted right to abortion. -0,31
28. As a rule, my imagination contains no sequential plot with successive, law-governed actions taking place; it is more like simply examining things dumped from memory onto a mental table - with attention shifting now to one of them, now to another. -0,31
29. An ideal monarchy is better than an ideal republic. -0,31
30. “If not for myself, then not for others either” - sometimes that is exactly how I act. -0,30
31. I use my left hand almost as well as my right (or even better). -0,30
32. A person is not a patriot if they allow or, all the more so, help foreigners criticize their state. -0,30
33. “I came, I saw, I conquered,” - that describes my lifestyle. -0,29
34. Sometimes I arrange small provocations among acquaintances in order to understand their secret thoughts and motives even better. -0,29
35. I pay little heed to mistakes made in the past and often repeat them. -0,29
36. When I fantasize about something, my associations are chaotic and fragmentary, swarm like a cloud of mosquitoes, and repeatedly return to the starting point. Least of all do they resemble any coherent plot. -0,29
37. Sometimes, out of boredom, I like to throw people off balance - for this purpose I deliberately say hurtful things to them. -0,29
38. It is true that I am not at all an anxious person. -0,29
39. Broad universal education is more harmful than useful to society. -0,29
40. I like hurting some people - sometimes I like bringing them to distress and even to tears. -0,28
41. I would like to live in a world in which nothing changes. -0,28
42. The closer the structure of civil society is to the organization of an army, the healthier, stronger, and more robust society will be. -0,28
43. I would permit gladiatorial fights ending in death, for the amusement of the people. -0,28
44. Sometimes I hear in my head something like the rustling of thoughts, at times indistinct, and sometimes turning into intelligible words - they sound as an intrusive echo following the thoughts in my head. -0,28
45. Once a week or more often, it happens that, while thinking about something, I suddenly experience an abrupt and unpleasant sensation of “thought stopping,” that is, some unexpected emptiness in the head and an inability to concentrate again immediately. -0,28
46. In my leisure time my imagination is always altruistic; it very rarely concerns itself with personal interests and problems, and much more often with those of others or with global ones. -0,28
47. It is quite possible that I have a somewhat “quarrelsome” character. -0,28
48. Some innate “primitive” instincts are so strong in me that I could never overcome them. -0,28
49. I know how to exploit my acquaintances - gradually making them dependent, while at the same time increasing the exploitation. -0,28

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50. I like, in passing, to caress my children or loved ones when they are simply walking by: hug them, kiss them, stroke them. 0,28
51. Before criticizing someone, I try to imagine how I would feel if I were in their place. 0,28
52. A thirst for intellectual knowledge, with an emphasis on the new and unusual, is a characteristic trait of mine. 0,28
53. It is true that I do not seek to place others in a subordinate position and never have a desire to live at someone else’s expense. 0,28
54. I can carefully, flawlessly, and quickly untangle some tangled ropes, fishing lines, or threads. 0,28
55. Fear of punishment should be used as an incentive as rarely as possible, and preferably not used at all. 0,28
56. I have an excellent sense of humor, including the ability to laugh at myself. 0,28
57. Some moments in films I am watching can quite possibly bring an involuntary tear to my eye. 0,28
58. I react very painfully and sensitively to any injustice committed against either me or other people. 0,28
59. I like an atmosphere of free and uninhibited “generation” of ideas, where scolding and criticizing are not customary. 0,28
60. I always take my obligations very seriously. 0,28
61. It is true that I never allow myself actions that are unfair to other people or that humiliate someone. 0,28
62. I am invariably repelled by any manifestations of laziness, lying, cruelty, and injustice in people. 0,28
63. I am often able to derive pleasure from my activities. 0,29
64. I easily “read” and remember people’s facial expressions well. 0,29
65. I have always memorized new material quickly. 0,29
66. I like (or used to like) reflecting on the meaning of life. 0,29
67. Pleasant memories come to my mind more often than unpleasant ones. 0,29
68. From my interlocutor’s voice I quickly notice when they begin to get nervous. 0,29
69. In accordance with my psychology, the role of peacemaker would suit me better than that of the attacking side. 0,29
70. Strict respect for the moral norms of mutually honest and conscientious behavior among people is more valuable and more necessary than even respect for the laws of the state. 0,29
71. Fantasizing is my constant way of life. 0,29
72. I am a supporter of discipline and order, but ones based not on administrative pressure, but on conscience, duty, and personal responsibility. 0,29
73. I usually see when a person is in a cheerful mood. 0,29
74. In my mental imagination, forthcoming success always proceeds on an upward trajectory, with one success linking to another. 0,30
75. I know how to be ironic about myself. 0,30
76. I respect the distinctiveness of another person’s personality more than the ability to fit into a collective as a useful member of it. 0,30
77. If I become absorbed in something, it is very difficult to slow me down or stop me. 0,30
78. I usually adapt somehow automatically to another person, always trying to speak in a “language” understandable to them (and this does not require any effort from me to overcome myself). 0,30
79. For me, the family is a place of peace, care, and calm where, by definition, there can be no conflicts or scandals. 0,30
80. Every person deserves respect regardless of their status. 0,30
81. When beginning an undertaking or an attack, I am always full of joyful anticipation of success. 0,30
82. I like being in a society and environment where no one depends on anyone else, where there are no “seniors” and no “authorities.” 0,31
83. On average, I always treat others with the same respect and benevolence that I would like to see directed toward me. 0,31
84. My sexuality is always colored by a feeling of being in love, active benevolent sympathy, and rapidly growing attachment to the object of desire. 0,31
85. I am strongly irritated by any obvious brazen lie, even if its violation of the facts does not directly affect me. 0,31
86. I always keenly see when something is lacking in a situation for success. 0,31
87. I find it difficult to inhibit and stop a process of mental searching once it has begun. 0,31
88. I like to “savor” certain sensations and experiences. 0,31
89. I experience an instantaneous acute hatred of any attempts at domineering rudeness and violent coercion. 0,32
90. Tomorrow is usually better than yesterday. 0,32
91. It is true that I am completely uninterested in multiplying “friends” on the internet by luring them to my blog. 0,32
92. I always treat other people’s rights with exactly the same respect as my own. 0,33
93. It is very difficult for me to tear myself away from a pleasure once it has begun. 0,33
94. I am always irritated when people try to manipulate me emotionally, even in a mild form. 0,33
95. I have a predisposition to get mentally “stuck” on certain fears and apprehensions. 0,33
96. I am afraid to ride in the front seat of a car with a driver who drives recklessly and at very high speed. 0,34
97. I consider loyalty and devotion to be important virtues of mine; I disapprove of self-serving tricksters. 0,34
98. Watching good films engrosses me; throughout the film I empathize with the action across a wide range - from smiling and joy to a feeling of grief and sometimes even tears. 0,34
99. I easily “jump” my mental attention across different periods in the history of my life.. 0,34
100. It often happens that I find it very difficult to tear myself away from a game I have started, although more important matters are waiting. 0,34
101. Failures make a strong impression on me. 0,34
102. I always become very upset if I did not manage to do something on time and miscalculated the time. 0,35
103. I am a very intellectually inquisitive person. 0,35
104. I strongly dislike it in people when they are fickle in love and friendships. 0,35
105. Qualities characteristic of me are responsibility, scrupulousness, and honesty. 0,36
106. The stronger the pressure, the greater my resistance. 0,37
107. I often imagine some situations deliberately and solely in order to derive pleasure from these thoughts. 0,41

It should be noted that having a low social normativity index is not at all shameful. At least, the overwhelming majority of the service class currently ruling in Russia belongs precisely to this category of people.

Intercorrelations of auxiliary questionnaire indices (across the respondent dataset)

Correlations of “Social Normativity” with socionics profile indicators (18000 respondents):