On Other Properties of LSI (not related to the pack instinct)

For the most part, these properties are caused by vulnerable Ne against a moderate logical-sensory and introverted-declatim background. Among them:

• Behavioral inflexibility
• Negative reaction to changes and unexpected events; everyday conservatism
• Striving for cognitive unambiguity (without alternatives, probabilities, and ambiguities)
• Perfectionism in adherence to fixed standards, namely, standard models of things, procedures, behavior
• Tendency toward careful control of the present, so that it does not go beyond the bounds of a predetermined course

(these first five properties are what we will examine now)

And tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, to conclude, we will add to them an examination of the following properties as well:

1. Problems with metaphorical thinking (its excessive weakness)
2. attraction to symmetrical completeness
3. inert sequentiality of all processes being carried out (with simultaneous difficulty in distraction and switching)
4. complete absence of impulsive traits - viscous, deliberate, and constantly controlled pedantry of sequential actions
5. stable and prolonged mental concentration on one thing
6. resistance to monotony
7. conformism
8. ability to maintain a fixed posture for a long time
9. perfectionism in small details, with difficulties accounting for their importance to the whole
10. tendency toward collecting and systematization
11. internal emotional constancy
12. poverty of external emotional expressiveness – a “brick face” with minimal facial expression

Behavioral inflexibility

1. I do everything according to instructions, without trying to be original. 0.95
2. I prefer to celebrate holidays with my family, in the same place. 0.92
3. I know that relearning is always difficult and unpleasant for me: I prefer once-and-for-all established procedures and methods of action in my work. 0.91
4. I regard possible unexpected events with suspicion, I am always afraid of them. 0.90
5. It is difficult for me to understand how one can, in a single minute, “jump” mentally back and forth across a dozen different topics at once. 0.90
6. I am attached to certain permanent places, and can be stubborn in my unwillingness to change my surroundings. 0.89
7. I love permanence. “So it was, so it is, and so it will always be” - that sounds wonderful. 0.89
8. I would like to see the world as more permanent and less changeable. 0.89
9. I am more likely to prefer professions where one has to concentrate deeply on one thing rather than distribute attention across many different things. 0.89
10. I prefer to use services from companies familiar to me and not try other places, even if other companies may be better. 0.88
11. I never read books from the middle, I always follow the sequence of chapters. 0.88
12. I do not like surprises in life - as a rule they are harmful or useless. 0.88
13. I do not like being offered more than two possible courses of action or decisions to choose from. 0.88
14. I prefer permanent methods of working, and very much dislike relearning, for example changing the operating system on a computer, using different programs, etc. 0.88
15. I do not like changes in life. 0.87
16. I get nervous and “slow down” if I have to reconsider established views. 0.87
17. I prefer dealing only with methods of working that have already been tested and tried by other people. 0.87
18. I feel uncertain in rapidly changing situations, and here my habit of pedantry usually saves me. 0.87
19. A good situation is an easily predictable situation, that is, one whose outcome is clear and certain in advance. 0.86
20. An exceptionally respectful attitude toward all established rules is characteristic of me. 0.86
21. I am a person of established and permanent habits; compared with others, I find it difficult to deviate from them. 0.86
22. Sudden changes in a situation sometimes confuse me and cause a kind of inhibited state. 0.85
23. With regard to laws, rules, instructions, and established procedures, I am a great traditionalist. 0.85
24. I always adhere to the principle that everything must be done exactly as it is already customary to do it in the given workplace and collective. 0.84
25. There is nothing worse than unexpected events. 0.84
26. It is better to accidentally crush something innovative than to allow disorder. 0.84
27. I often perceive everything new as a source of threat. 0.82
28. I find it difficult to deviate from an intended path or change my expectations - that is, my thinking is insufficiently flexible in this sense. 0.81
29. I am a consistent conservative in my worldview, views, and habits. 0.80
30. Deviations from established rules are permissible only in the most exceptional cases - “the law is harsh, but it is the law.” 0.79
31. I am conservative and inert in my speech and behavioral style; I neither like nor know how to diversify the few patterns I use. 0.78
32. The key word for me is interest. I can abandon everything I was doing before if I sense something more interesting nearby. -0.71
33. I plan my day regardless of circumstances - I usually find it difficult to foresee them all, so it turns out to be easier to mechanically and persistently “hammer away at one point.” 0.67
34. I am inert in my views and beliefs, and rarely change my point of view even under pressure. 0.49

35. I often change goals, “juggle” them in the course of my activity, and thanks to this I always manage to achieve something effectively. -0.94
36. As any undertaking proceeds, I introduce many different changes into it that were not provided for in the initial plan. -0.92
37. I like frequently changing, combining, and diversifying my work tasks. -0.92
38. I have many very different interests and hobbies, a little of everything. -0.92
39. I have a great many diverse and frequently shifting activities and interests. -0.90
40. I prefer variety rather than routine activities. -0.89
41. Things already familiar and tried once quickly cease to interest and entertain me; I constantly need some new stimuli. -0.89
42. I become bored with monotony very quickly. -0.88
43. Anything unexpected or paradoxical immediately arouses my strong interest. -0.87
44. I feel comfortable in unfamiliar situations. -0.87
45. The word “interest” is key for me; I am constantly drawn to everything new, unexpected, inexplicable. -0.87
46. I feel more comfortable than many other people and orient myself more easily than others under conditions of all kinds of changes, chaos, and confusion. -0.87
47. In manufacturing, I would prefer to be involved in producing experimental rather than mass-produced products. -0.86
48. My interests are more broad than narrowly focused. -0.85
49. I like starting something new. -0.83
50. I diversify my activities very often. -0.82
51. Work that transforms surrounding things is always better than even the most perfect but frozen order. -0.80
52. I usually enjoy situations that prompt me to change some of my views. -0.72
53. If I go to a supermarket or market for groceries, I: 1) Know in advance what I will buy, and pay no attention to other goods. 5) As a rule, I also buy many things that caught my eye but that I had not previously planned to buy. -0.69
54. When new facts appear, I quickly change my point of view. -0.65

Negative reaction to changes and unexpected events; everyday conservatism

1. I like an unchanging order around me. 0.87
2. I have very stable habits in clothing. 0.83
3. I like it when order is firm, constructed from top to bottom, from the general to the particular, and resistant to the effects of time. 0.82
4. All important personal papers are kept by me in the same designated place. 0.82
5. I extremely rarely change anything in the arrangement of my things at home. 0.80
6. I prefer to walk along the same familiar routes, wear familiar clothing, and in general prefer a measured, predictable life in everyday matters. 0.80
7. I am stable and conservative in matters of aesthetic taste and surroundings, and always know exactly what objects I need. 0.76
8. I like rigid structures that permit no changes within their framework. 0.68

9. I perceive the world not as “solid,” but as plastic; everything in it moves and changes, and everything in it is worthy of change, alteration, and improvement. -0.79
10. As a child, it happened many times that in my fantasies I imagined myself in the role of a magician-illusionist. -0.71
11. I greatly enjoy unexpected discoveries. -0.68

Striving for cognitive unambiguity (without alternatives, probabilities, and ambiguities)

1. I do not like discussions about alternatives and possibilities, I prefer unambiguous situations. 0.96
2. I like concreteness and detail in everything, so that everything can be seen directly and nothing has to be inferred. 0.89
3. I cannot stand probabilities in reasoning, I prefer unambiguous facts and arguments. 0.88
4. Facts always speak of one specific and definite thing; the conclusions drawn from them do not depend on the angle from which they are viewed. Anything else is simply deception and manipulation 0.87
5. I find it boring to fantasize by going through alternative developments, but on the other hand I often embellish one particular alternative that seems pleasant to me in my imagination down to the most remote and detailed particulars. 0.86
6. If two facts conflict with one another, then one of them is clearly interfering and must be discarded. 0.84
7. One common order is better than many diverse ones supposedly “just in case.” 0.84
8. I have very stable, permanent, and independent views about what is beautiful and aesthetically pleasing and what is not. 0.82
9. A good teacher is one who gives unambiguous answers to all questions. 0.78
10. I like unambiguous conclusions; as a result of a dispute, one point of view must necessarily prove truer than all the others. 0.77
11. I uncompromisingly reject everything that contradicts the system I have chosen and consider most appropriate. 0.76

12. I am sometimes mentally haunted by “logical relativism” - that is, it often seems that all our judgments about the world in which we live are built on shifting sand, and they can be turned this way or that. -0.91
13. I like sharply shuffling alternatives when giving people advice: “What about this? Or perhaps this other way? Or this?” -0.90
14. In my imagination, the future always has many versions, many unstable crisis points and branchings. -0.88
15. I always keep something unfinished and contradictory in my mind - because without a prospect, without the presence of something open and unfinished, life is boring for me. -0.86

Perfectionism in adherence to fixed standards, that is, standard models of things, procedures, behavior

1. I demand strict observance of accepted social norms of behavior from people. 0.89
2. A person is obliged through their actions to correspond to people’s expectations: if a person is a cop, they are obliged to catch thieves rather than cooperate with them; if a person is a thief, they too are obliged to observe the rules of thieves’ honor, and any deviations from corporate moral norms are lawlessness deserving every possible condemnation 0.88
3. I like putting my things into meticulous order. 0.87
4. Decorum and social norms of behavior are important to me - I invariably follow them myself and demand the same from others. 0.86
5. I always strive somehow to “fix” the world around me in place, to make it less unstable and more ordinary. 0.86
6. I believe that all laws must be strictly observed. 0.86
7. More than most other people I know, I am inclined to “follow protocol,” that is, the accepted rules of the game, conduct, and actions. 0.85
8. I greatly value a permanent order among my things. 0.85
9. I prefer stability instead of new experiences. 0.84
10. In any system or collective under my management, I first of all try to eliminate every possible source of instability. 0.83
11. I am a person of permanent habits, and I know that compared with other people I find it very difficult to change them. 0.83
12. I like the proverb: “Every cricket should know its own hearth.” 0.81
13. The time spent is secondary and not so important if the task is to “polish” a piece of work or a document into complete conformity with requirements and rules. 0.75

14. I leave (scatter) my things everywhere. -0.88
15. Chocolate can also be blue. -0.85
16. Striving for any kind of “universal order” is always harmful - life itself contradicts it. -0.85
17. I am a person of more creative and unconventional solutions than my acquaintances on average. -0.84
18. The lines of text in my handwriting are generally not straight, but noticeably wavy and uneven (check old handwriting samples). -0.83
19. In my ordinary cursive handwriting, the letters strongly “dance” in height, width, and shape; they cannot in any way be called even and identical. -0.82
20. Deviations from the average have always attracted me more than anything strictly normal and average. -0.65

Tendency toward careful control of the present, so that it does not go beyond the bounds of a predetermined course within given standards

1. A well-organized society is one in which the actions of all people are predictable and controllable. 0.91
2. I know how to be, and am inclined to be, persistent and importunate regarding observance of order and rules. 0.87
3. In practical matters, I always demand that executors carry out everything prescribed very precisely, “from beginning to end” - because their independence could divert events away from plans worked out in advance, and this is intolerable to me. 0.87
4. I am intolerant of disorder and strive to establish order as quickly as possible. 0.85
5. I am often guilty of petty fault-finding with other people’s work. 0.85
6. I always pay bills and payments on time. 0.81
7. I would enjoy organizing document flow at large enterprises. 0.81
8. Wherever I am placed in charge, everyone there will live according to order and schedule. 0.80
9. More often than not, it is not the system that is at fault, but the people who do not want or do not know how to live according to it. 0.80
10. I tolerate no justifications based on “expediency” if something was not carried out exactly as it was originally prescribed. 0.79
11. I like forbidding things, or I like controlling how people observe various prohibitions. 0.78
12. I would greatly enjoy working as a censor or quality-control inspector. 0.78
13. To be prepared for the future, one must: 1) calculate its probabilities well 5) rigidly control the present 0.72
14. I would be very well suited to working as an inspector who monitors compliance with various established regulations. 0.69

Problems with metaphorical thinking (its excessive weakness)

1. I poorly understand the figurative meaning of jokes - sometimes I feel like saying, couldn’t you express yourself more clearly? 0.90
2. In my speech, I rarely use metaphorical comparisons of one thing with another (for example, I almost never use turns of phrase with figurative meaning, such as: “understands it like a pig understands oranges,” “you can’t pull a fish out of a pond without effort,” “sea-wave color,” “breathes like a steam locomotive,” “transparent sound,” etc.). 0.86
3. As a rule, it seems to me that I lack current information about the situation, and that one of the problems lies precisely in this. 0.78
4. I rarely look for a deeper meaning in things. 0.78
5. I sometimes find it difficult to emotionally “grasp” a situation as a whole; I prefer to deal with its elements separately. 0.75
6. The figurative meaning of proverbs and sayings does not always immediately and quickly reach me (for example, “Hunger is no aunt,” or “Don’t get into someone else’s sleigh,” and especially other proverbs heard for the first time - I sometimes find it difficult to quickly understand what sort of wisdom of life and what general meaning, besides the direct concrete one, is embedded in them). 0.74
7. The overall meaning of a joke I hear does not always reach me instantly. 0.52
8. Jokes sometimes do not reach me immediately - only after others have already finished laughing. 0.31

9. By ear I quickly and unmistakably catch all the thoughts that the other person is trying to squeeze into their speech. -0.88
10. The work of a research psychologist would suit me better than the work of a dentist. -0.87
11. Being a screenwriter, poet, or writer of action-packed works would suit me very well. -0.86
12. Usually a person has not even managed to say anything yet, and I already guess what thoughts are in their head. -0.85
13. The future is always emotionally colored for me; its direct sensing and, as it were, “automatic understanding” is present in my mind at any moment. -0.84
14. My imagination works like a powerful amplifier: for example, it is capable of noticing certain small individual traits in a person and amplifying them into a caricatured grotesque. -0.83
15. I instantly understand hints, I catch another person’s thought from half a word. -0.80
16. I easily guess what the opinion of the majority of people will be on one issue or another. -0.78
17. In my stories, I often unintentionally and involuntarily embellish things, mixing fiction with facts. -0.76
18. With a fleeting glance at some caricature or narrative picture, I instantly grasp the essence of the intrigue and the entire interconnection of the events depicted in it. -0.75
19. When I describe something in a literary manner, I often use comparisons (rarely does a text of mine do without them). For example: “a gypsy girl who looked like a broom in her dress,” or “sunset clouds resembling wine stains on a blue tablecloth,” “rare, like an ugly doe,” “she walked waddling like a duck,” etc., etc. -0.74
20. I often use “vivid” epithets and metaphors in my thoughts or speech. -0.74
21. My speech often (more often than other people’s) contains figurative comparisons, examples-analogies. -0.74
22. From several versions of the ending of a joke, I will quickly and easily choose the single funniest one. -0.46
23. In one poem intended for a children’s audience, it is said that fish fly in a red sky beneath a green sun. Would you let your child read this poem? -0.40

Attraction to symmetrical completeness

1. In aesthetics, I prefer symmetry and ideal “crystalline” completeness. 0.85

2. I am bored when surrounded by everything symmetrical and completely finished. -0.83
3. In aesthetics, I like violations of symmetry. -0.79

Constantly controls and keeps in order the space of things around oneself

1. I get very irritated by disorder, or if something is not done with complete precision the way I asked and wanted. 0.93
2. I always keep my room clean and tidy. 0.92
3. I am very intolerant of disorder and untidiness. 0.91
4. I am always carefully groomed. 0.90
5. Every day I neatly make my bed, even if it is not necessary. 0.90
6. I like putting things in order. 0.88
7. My things are always in perfect order. 0.87
8. I love order more than others do. 0.87
9. I am always neat in my appearance. 0.84
10. I always maintain the cleanliness and neatness of my bed and clothing. 0.83
11. It would be unbearable for me, even as a joke or disguise, to be dressed like a homeless person. 0.78
12. I always experience an unpleasant feeling bordering on strong irritation if people close to me leave unwashed dishes, shifted chairs, unevenly hanging curtains, etc. in “my territory.” 0.74

13. Disorder does not bother me. -0.95
14. I do not care about strict and permanent order among things in the house - the main thing is that every item can be found. -0.92
15. I do not worry about disorder - it will sort itself out. -0.90
16. I poorly organize my time and the space around me (in my bag, on my desk, in my room). -0.89
17. Untidy people do not irritate me. -0.87
18. I often forget where I put things in my home. -0.85
19. I often leave my room in disorder. -0.85
20. I often create disorder around myself (for example, throwing things wherever, not closing doors, not switching off electricity, etc.). -0.84
21. I lose things. -0.76

Inert sequentiality of all processes being carried out (with simultaneous difficulty in distraction and switching)

1. I usually scrupulously adhere to the planned sequence of necessary actions. 0.93
2. In many matters, I am an extremely pedantic person. 0.92
3. I carry out any task in order from beginning to end; I do not have the habit of starting from the middle or from whatever point happens to come to mind. 0.92
4. I find it difficult to restructure previously prepared plans on the fly; I usually prefer to act according to what was planned, ignoring unexpected events. 0.91
5. When faced with a choice, I try to understand completely which option will be the correct one, and I will not move until I understand this. 0.91
6. I will never switch on an unfamiliar electrical appliance without reading the instructions. 0.90
7. I do not begin work without first thinking through its entire sequence. 0.90
8. I hate everything that tries to knock me out of my habitual mode and rhythm of life. 0.89
9. I have a very stable rhythm of life that is almost never “ragged.” 0.88
10. I always think things through carefully before acting. 0.87
11. It irritates me when I unexpectedly have to put aside my work and switch to something else. 0.86
12. I greatly dislike changing my plans and cannot stand it when something is imposed on me. 0.85
13. My letters are generally unhurried, detailed, and thorough. 0.85
14. My stories are characterized by event-by-event sequentiality and continuity - mixing episodes from different moments in time in my story, placing them next to one another according to some non-temporal feature, is not typical of me. 0.84
15. I practically always retell events in exact chronological order - that is, precisely in the order in which they happened, with almost no deviations from that order. 0.81
16. In my thoughts, I more often reason using words, through internal speech, and sequentially at that, rather than in leaps or with the help of some vague visual “insights” and images. 0.81
17. I always have a constant rhythm of life without temporary “holes,” dropouts, or breaks in the rhythm. 0.81
18. I like all kinds of “pure” processes - the process of eating a sandwich, the process of arranging papers, the process of combing my hair, etc., and therefore I do not like interrupting them, so as not to spoil the pleasure, and I do not like combining them. 0.79
19. In books, I like smoothly and sequentially developing plots; I cannot stand action-packed “twists,” returns, and a large number of characters. 0.77
20. When learning to use new equipment, I always study the written instructions with the utmost attention. 0.77
21. If there are written instructions for some task, I always read them completely before beginning the task. 0.72
22. I find it difficult to understand what “instantaneous holistic perception” means - I perceive and analyze any object or situation sequentially, in parts. 0.67

23. My life is a tangle of tasks and meetings and because of this often resembles chaos. -0.87
24. In my practical activity, I want nothing to do with the gradual accumulation of quantity and quality - I believe in decisive shifts, heroic leaps, and turning points. -0.83
25. My oral or written narratives are usually not smooth, but “ragged,” in a kind of zigzag - with stops, abrupt slowdowns or accelerations, sudden insertions of a thought that has just come into my head, sharp turns, etc. -0.83
26. For some reason, there were always “gaps” in my lecture notes, so I almost always had to resort to other people’s notes when preparing for exams and assessments. -0.79
27. When typing quickly on a computer, the order of letters in words often gets mixed up for me, and such word formations as “regluraly” (instead of “regularly”), “difefrence” (instead of “difference”), etc. regularly appear, so I constantly have to correct what I have typed. -0.64

Complete absence of impulsive traits - viscous, deliberate, and constantly controlled pedantry of sequential actions

1. I easily refrain from initial impulsive urges and, in general, from any impulsive actions. 0.95
2. There is absolutely no impulsiveness or rush-mode behavior in me; by temperament I am rather viscous and pedantic. 0.93
3. I am self-critical and not impulsive; I always weigh my actions in advance. 0.93
4. I am a completely non-impulsive person. 0.91
5. I am very good at controlling and keeping my desires and impulses in check. 0.91
6. I always speak and act in a measured way, having thought beforehand. 0.89
7. As a rule, I inhibit my initial impulses. 0.87
8. It is true that I do not like any “surges” or suddenness - neither in feelings, nor in work, nor in the flow of time. 0.85
9. There is more quality than speed in my decisions and actions. 0.84
10. I always easily and completely control my behavior. 0.83
11. When evaluating something, I am unusually scrupulous and thorough and spend a long time going through many alternatives. 0.81

12. I am a person of impulsive actions. -0.95
13. I often make hasty decisions. -0.93
14. My impulsiveness and my emotions often get me into trouble. -0.91
15. There is a great deal of impetuosity in me. -0.91
16. I often act first and think afterward. -0.90
17. I am always ready for changes, but I am also impulsive and do not always restrain myself easily. -0.89
18. I often make sudden and impulsive movements. -0.89
19. I often act first and think afterward. -0.89
20. I easily give in to my first impulses. -0.88
21. It often happens that I react to something too quickly or too strongly, and this leads to undesirable consequences. -0.87
22. I may sometimes be perceived as an unstable, easily excitable person. -0.86
23. I often make some move impulsively, practically without thinking about whether the choice is correct. -0.85
24. It happens that I quickly press something “wrong” before thinking. -0.82
25. I quite often commit poorly thought-out actions. -0.81
26. I do many things under the influence of the moment. -0.79
27. Sudden, not always motivated changes in intonation are common in my speech. -0.77
28. I quite often perform unexpected actions. -0.75
29. It happens that, because of haste, I press the wrong buttons instead of the correct ones on various devices. -0.65

Stable and prolonged mental concentration on one object

1. I easily concentrate my attention (on an object, thought, or memory) without any problems. 0.86
2. It is easy for me to concentrate on tasks and on what people are telling me. 0.85
3. I easily focus my attention on one thing. 0.83
4. I practically always have unhurried and clear thoughts, with quite sufficient distinctness and concentration, and without any problems focusing on one thought in order to consider it from all sides. 0.82
5. I can keep my visual attention focused for a long time without becoming distracted or having my thoughts scatter. 0.81

6. My ability to concentrate is inconsistent - it comes and goes. -0.92
7. I have problems concentrating my attention and “getting my thoughts together.” -0.90
8. I am not very attentive. -0.88
9. I sometimes find it difficult to control my thoughts - they seem to begin living a life of their own, beyond my control. -0.88
10. I have problems proceeding through a task attentively and with concentration even when it interests me. -0.87
11. I often become disoriented and confused in my own thoughts. -0.87
12. It often happens that it is very difficult to “get my attention together,” but if I strain myself hard enough, I can always manage it, even if only for a short time. -0.86
13. I am often hindered by the fact that my attention is easily distracted and scattered. -0.86
14. I sometimes find it difficult to focus my attention on anything, even if I deliberately try to strain it - it produces no result. -0.85
15. Over the course of five minutes I usually: 1) remain focused on one thing 5) manage to “wander” through many different thoughts -0.85
16. I am easily distracted. -0.84
17. I sometimes get into states where I become confused in my own thoughts - I cannot focus on any one of them well enough to decide anything, and in general there is a great deal of uncontrollable chaotic fuss and a kind of “fog” in my head. -0.83
18. At least a couple of times a week I experience states where my head is filled with “racing thoughts” and a “rush of ideas,” when thoughts “fly in one ear and out the other,” and afterward it is difficult even to remember all of them. -0.82
19. Sometimes I experience an unpleasant state of “fog” in my head, when there is some kind of unpleasant indistinct commotion in my brain and I cannot hold onto and focus a thought, even after prolonged effort. -0.81
20. When solving problems, I am often thrown off and confused by various incidental thoughts and associations in my head. -0.79
21. I am often in an overexcited state in which it is difficult to maintain steady attention on a particular thought. -0.74
22. My attention is easily distracted by interference. -0.74

This property and the next two closely related ones (resistance to monotony and the ability to maintain one motionless posture for a long time) distinguish the LSI type in the socion as the sole, exclusive champion.
For some professions these properties will be more of a disadvantage (where creative thinking or speed of reaction is required), but for others – an advantage. For example, they are useful for the work of a dentist, jeweler, watchman, sentry on duty, hunter lying in ambush, etc.

Resistance to monotony

1. Work that seems monotonous and repetitive to others is often to my liking, without making me sleepy at all or in any way dispersing my attention. 0.95
2. I would readily agree to fairly monotonous work that makes many people sleepy. 0.93
3. I am resilient and patient in monotonous work that makes many other people sleepy. 0.90
4. I differ from other people in that I can engage in the same activity for a long time and without breaks, without losing interest. 0.76
5. I can spend many days and weeks in a row, without becoming tired or seeking variety, doing the same activity or playing the same enjoyable game. 0.71
6. I would like to live in a world in which nothing changes. 0.70

7. During monotonous work I often deliberately begin to vary my actions, even if this reduces quality and productivity. -0.93
8. I lack patience in matters requiring a long wait. -0.93
9. I cannot stand “assembly-line work” - in order to work productively, I periodically need a change of surroundings, refreshed impressions, movement, travel. -0.90
10. The necessity of doing only monotonous, repetitive tasks usually drives me out of my mind. -0.90
11. I prefer variety instead of routine. -0.88
12. Rather, because of a certain inner explosiveness, I have little capacity for activities and occupations requiring painstaking, sedentary work. -0.86
13. Monotonous surroundings often make me sleepy. -0.86
14. In life I am interested in a little bit of everything and often switch from one thing to another. -0.81
15. During monotonous work done “because I have to,” I often feel drawn to take a “smoke break”: wander around somewhere, look around, smoke, etc. -0.73

Ability to maintain a fixed posture for a long time

1. I can stand or sit motionless for a long time without any problems if required. 0.96
2. I am economical in my movements. 0.92
3. My movements are almost always economical and calm, but at the same time precise. 0.90
4. I know how to “sit in ambush” without losing patience. 0.90
5. Compared with others, I am much more economical in my movements. 0.88
6. I am physically inactive; sometimes I can sit for a long time without moving at all. 0.87
7. As a game, I can easily freeze for ten seconds and assume the pose of a motionless statue, without moving even once and while maintaining my balance. 0.78

8. I find it difficult to stand motionless for more than half a minute - I begin fidgeting, changing posture, and my arms and legs seem to start doing things on their own. -0.97
9. I rarely sit or stand motionless - I often fidget and move around, and it is difficult for me to remain still for a long time. -0.91
10. I find it difficult to sit calmly in a situation requiring prolonged sitting still. -0.88
11. It would be very difficult for me to stand “at attention” for more than three minutes. -0.84
12. Because of a vague anxiety whose causes are unclear, I often cannot sit still. -0.76
13. During activity I make many superfluous, unnecessary movements (I often change posture, sway, nod, scratch myself, shuffle my foot along the floor, rub something with my hand, etc.). -0.75

Conformism

1. If society imposed a complete ban on discussing certain topics, I would not protest for long and would adapt to it more easily than others. 0.88
2. It is true that I would never go against the collective: neither for my own sake nor for the sake of others. 0.87
3. I agree with everything in the world, and I accept all rules. 0.84
4. By my presence I more often reconcile and harmonize than provoke disputes and awaken disagreement. 0.83
5. I dislike people who disrupt general harmony and agreement by disagreeing with something and protesting against something. 0.82
6. When starting something new for myself, I always consult someone about how to avoid possible problems. 0.81
7. I like being like everyone else. 0.79
8. I am like everyone else, and I want to be like everyone else - neither smarter nor more foolish, neither worse nor better. 0.78
9. Social peace is more important than truth. 0.76
10. It is true that, as a rule, I have no need to criticize or dispute anyone. 0.71
11. If the matter seriously concerns public respect and preservation of social status, then in choosing my behavior I will be closer to the pole of conformists (those who look to public opinion), rather than to the pole of nonconformists who do not give a damn about it. 0.69

12. In my words and actions I often go “against the current” - I even like it. -0.95
13. I often “swim against the current”. -0.94
14. I often go “against the current”. -0.94
15. I often challenge the correctness of authority and existing norms of behavior. -0.91
16. My character is marked by rebelliousness, a rebellious spirit, and a tendency toward critical disagreement. -0.90
17. In my views I often take positions not shared by the majority. -0.88
18. I will easily go against public opinion if I want to. -0.87
19. I often resist some authority. -0.85
20. Throwing a system out of equilibrium (including established views) is usually more interesting to me than bringing a system into equilibrium. -0.85
21. There is a spirit of overthrowing generally accepted foundations in me. -0.84
22. I usually do not give a damn which option gets more votes - I will do things my own way anyway. -0.84
23. I pay little attention to social norms - if others need that, then let them adapt to me, while for me it is difficult and uninteresting. -0.84
24. There is a great deal of individualism in my character - being a cog in a “big machine” is intolerable to me. -0.83
25. I am more of a nonconformist than a conformist - I more often provoke disputes and objections than bring people to agreement. -0.82
26. I express my point of view even if I risk coming into conflict with the majority of my friends. -0.82
27. I am always interested in refuting an existing system of views and constructing a new one in its place. -0.82
28. I am a supporter of radical changes in the world order. -0.82
29. I express my opinion with little regard for what will happen to me because of it. -0.81
30. My agitated protest, when it does occur, is directed neither toward pacifying people nor even toward subordinating them to my rules, - no, in practice it most often serves to stir up discussion and disagreement in the group. -0.79
31. In the areas of life most interesting to me I am a pronounced nonconformist, that is, I practically always adhere to my own opinion, different from the majority opinion. -0.76
32. I often experience a feeling of protest inside myself. -0.63
33. I often feel a certain inner protest, disagreement within myself. -0.53

EII, SEI and LSI divide the palm for conformism almost equally among themselves. The chief nonconformist of the socion, however, by a large margin over all the others, is the ILE psychotype. Di, Fi and Si contribute to conformism. Opposing it are Qi, which distances itself from other people’s foolishness, and Ne, restless in its curiosity and innovations.

“Perfectionism in small details, trifles, with difficulty taking their importance for the whole into account” - this character trait is in individual cases also sometimes called “pettiness”, and sometimes – “narrowness of thought”, although it can sometimes be useful.

1. I want and strive for everything to be done “exactly”. 0.91
2. Compared with others, I am a person who is scrupulous about trifles, neat, pedantic, and inclined toward meticulous observance of established rules. 0.91
3. In any undertaking I am distinguished by particular patience and meticulousness. 0.90
4. I am an excellent “finisher” - I like constantly refining the quality of work in its details and bringing familiar techniques to perfection. 0.89
5. I begin solving problems by gathering and clarifying all the details and particulars. 0.89
6. I like precision, concreteness and detail in everything. 0.88
7. Perhaps I can sometimes be tedious in my demandingness and conscientiousness. 0.88
8. When doing work, I work through all the details sequentially and immediately rather than leaving them for later. 0.87
9. Any “roughness” in results irritates me, both my own and other people’s, - everything must be smooth and completely finished, like a billiard ball. 0.86
10. In my work I am distinguished by scrupulous precision, I never simply take anyone’s word for anything, I check everything - both my own work and especially that of others. 0.86
11. A minor deviation from order can cause me strong indignation. 0.84
12. I continue until every single thing has been done perfectly. 0.82
13. In practical matters I personally delve into every detail and never lose sight of trifles. 0.81
14. When carrying out someone’s order, I carefully and literally work through all the details and do not overlook a single trifle. 0.80
15. I prefer detailed classifications in which the objects being sorted are divided into many groups while taking subtle details of their properties into account. 0.78
16. I have (or used to have) an “order mania” (this is when, for example, a person absolutely needs objects on a table to be laid out with equal distances between them, or when they rehang wallpaper because of one almost unnoticeable spot somewhere near the top, or when they get out of bed at night to rearrange their clothing and shoes, etc.) 0.77
17. A good model of a phenomenon should be distinguished by the clarity of all its small details. 0.74
18. A holistic picture of an event or object comes together for me only after I have gathered a multitude of small facts and studied all the individual details. 0.74

19. Sometimes I do work carelessly, I often lack diligence. -0.86
20. In dangerous and stressful situations I can set an example through my willpower and assertiveness, but in other situations I am characterized by disorganization. -0.84
21. I am impractical in everyday life and sometimes careless about trifles, and I avoid pedantic routine work. -0.83
22. It is better to manage to cover things more diversely, broadly and extensively than less and more deeply, so I sometimes do things slapdash. -0.79

LSI is the champion of the socion in pettiness over details, with IEE constituting its opposite in this quality. Both logics (and Ti in particular) contribute to petty tediousness, while both intuitions (and especially Ne) work against it. Therefore LII, although a program Ti type, is far less tedious not only than LSI, but even than the rational sensory ethical types ESE and ESI.

Tendency toward collecting and systematization

1. I have always liked systematizing collections, sorting small objects, details and facts according to some criterion. 0.96
2. I greatly enjoy activities involving sorting various objects into groups, into piles - I often even become excessively absorbed in such activity and spend too much time on it. 0.94
3. As a child I greatly enjoyed collecting postage stamps, postcards, labels or badges and searching for a suitable classification of them by type. 0.93
4. As a child I liked systematizing collections. 0.91
5. I like putting things together, sorting through them, categorizing them - these activities calm me and help me think. 0.88

The basis of the passion for collecting, as can be seen from the table corresponding to this property, is strong Ti against a background of weak intuition and weak Fi. Someone with strong Fi is not interested in an exhibition of “eternal” soulless objects. And if Ti is weak, then the person certainly will never become a collector, what the hell would they need collecting for then. And SEE and IEE convincingly demonstrate this with their low scores in the table. Well, perhaps some SEE with the corresponding lifestyle might swipe some painting from some museum or private collection - but again, not for themselves, but for resale.

Back in Soviet times I knew one SEE who was a great enthusiast of collecting icons from remote villages. But there was not a single icon in his house. He immediately sold them (his contemptuous word for them was “boards”) to foreigners. A freedom-loving man! But, of course, sooner or later he got caught doing this trade, which was strictly forbidden at the time. And literally in a single day, through this affair, he was recruited by the KGB for the rest of his subsequent life (entry costs a ruble, exit costs a hundred). As a provocateur he was rather mediocre in some respects - he talked too much, but in some operational schemes - astonishingly brazen.

Internal emotional constancy

1. My personality is very stable and constant in its structure. 0.85
2. I very rarely experience abrupt changes in emotion. 0.84
3. Any activity of mine is always very systematic and even, so from the outside it probably produces a monotonous impression. 0.84
4. It is difficult for others either to spoil or improve my mood. 0.81
5. I am distinguished by constancy of mood; emotional fluctuations and “surges” are not characteristic of me. 0.78
6. By character I am stable and reliable. 0.77
7. My mood is usually stable and changes little under the influence of either rewards or unpleasant events. 0.77
8. Compared with the average human level, my interests are very constant and stable. 0.76
9. I have many permanent habits from which I try not to deviate - and practically never do deviate. 0.74
10. Practically all my sensations are repeatable and typical, easily arranged into “cells” and classified. 0.73

11. I am a person who is more internally changeable than internally constant. -0.95
12. As a rule, I am inconsistent, my mood and thoughts change frequently. -0.89
13. I often have mood swings. -0.87
14. I have mood swings that occur for no reason and interfere with me. -0.85
15. My mood is often unstable. -0.83
16. I have an unstable mood that is difficult for me to control. -0.80
17. I cannot remain in one state for more than ten minutes - it repels me. -0.75
18. Sometimes I energetically “turn the flywheel”, then I immerse myself in thought for a long time – living constantly at the same intensity is not interesting. -0.74
19. My point of view on one problem or another strongly depends on circumstances and can change quite often. -0.72
20. Almost from birth everything in my life has been too unstable and changeable - I lack inner stability. -0.69
21. My ethical evaluation of any situation always depends on a multitude of its most diverse nuances and therefore is rarely predictable in advance. -0.65

Internal emotional stability, the feelings of one’s own constancy and indivisible wholeness that never leave a person, rest upon firm Ti. That is the conclusion that should be remembered from this.

Rarely and reluctantly jokes; more often tries to turn some joke into a serious conversation than to turn serious matters into a joke.

1. I rarely joke. 0.87
2. I practically never joke. 0.85
3. I can be “viscous” in my behavior, and I find it difficult to quickly switch my thoughts from one thing to another. 0.82
4. I am often the last person to laugh at a joke that has been told. 0.79

5. I often entertain my friends. -0.92
6. I am a sociable-impulsive person who understands everything from half a word, thinks “on the fly”, and knows how to be charming. -0.91
7. I like passing some amusing and entertaining information from one person to another. -0.89
8. I often lift people’s mood. -0.88
9. In company I tend to joke and make humorous remarks a lot, playing with words. -0.88
10. I joke a lot. -0.88
11. I have fun a lot and often. -0.87
12. As a child I often “monkeyed around”, imitating other people. -0.86
13. I am never at a loss for words - I instantly find something to answer or some witty retort. -0.85
14. I have an excellent sense of humor, including the ability to laugh at myself. -0.83
15. My sense of humor is stronger than other people’s - I can quickly notice and emphasize what is funny. -0.83
16. I take jokes about myself calmly and with humor, and I myself sometimes joke about others as well. -0.74
17. Sometimes I lie as a joke, sometimes I simply joke - I do both no less often than others, and I do not misjudge the reactions of my listeners. -0.66
18. I usually understand the meaning and significance of any situation I find myself in instantly, “automatically” - there is not even any need to reason or analyze. -0.61
19. I am a person with a very good and quick sense of humor. -0.55
20. I have a subtle, good-natured sense of humor, capable of showing the funny sides of things and making people laugh. -0.51
21. When trying to convey serious information to someone, I almost always season it with a share of humor and jokes so that it does not seem so tedious. -0.42
22. My humor is usually subtle, constantly playing on nuances - not everyone always understands these subtle hints. -0.05

In this scale, perhaps the discussion is not so much about a sense of humor as about the DESIRE to joke oneself. Well, Ti simply does not have such a desire - to joke. To joke means to disrupt a certain logical order. Ne and De, by contrast, contribute to joking. Ne here is specifically the component responsible for a sense of humor, while De is the component responsible for the ability to derive benefit from jokes by using them to establish horizontal connections with other people and groups of people. In IEE, De and Ne are strong, while Ti at the same time is - in the ass. That is why it turns out to be the chief joker of the socion.

Discipline, conscientiousness

1. I like cohesion and organization in everything, I cannot tolerate uncertainty, improvisations, deviations and discord. 0.98
2. I am a disciplined person. 0.96
3. I am committed to regularity, systematicity and discipline. 0.94
4. I always take my duties very seriously. 0.94
5. Compared with others, I am an excessively diligent and disciplined person. 0.94
6. I fulfill my promises unfailingly. 0.94
7. I am always outraged by any deviations from order and laws. 0.93
8. Key words for me are conscientiousness, timeliness, neatness, fairness and active industriousness. 0.92
9. I expect and demand strict observance of social norms of behavior from people. 0.92
10. I practically always observe my own rules very strictly. 0.91
11. I have a tendency to demand strict observance of social norms of behavior from people. 0.89
12. I always become very distressed if I fail to get something done on time, having miscalculated the time. 0.89
13. Conscientiousness, discipline - these are my strengths. 0.89
14. I like strict discipline and hierarchy at work. 0.89
15. I firmly keep my word and am always responsible about promises. 0.88
16. Throughout my life I have been strictly guided by a sense of duty and clear, constant principles. 0.87
17. I am scrupulous and uncompromising and am an active, passionate, businesslike and quarrelsome fighter for order, quality, and strict observance of rules. 0.87
18. I try to follow rules precisely. 0.85
19. The word “cannot” is a very important, key word for me. 0.77

20. I was often scolded for failing to carry out instructions. -0.97
21. I easily forgive myself for being late. -0.96
22. I dislike all kinds of regulations and instructions, in everyday life I always have “creative disorder”, and at work I often lack working capacity, organization and punctuality. -0.96
23. I can sometimes be carelessly irresponsible. -0.94
24. Intentions and previously outlined plans quickly “jump out” of my memory. -0.93
25. I am poorly organized and cannot tolerate any control. -0.93
26. I usually prepared for exams only during the last day or two beforehand. -0.89
27. I am often late, become tired of strict discipline, and do not have much respect for any formal hierarchy either. -0.88
28. Sometimes fools get angry because I was late somewhere or did not show up at all. -0.84

Discipline. as we can see from the table, is 90% associated with rationality, and 7% - with sensing.

Bringing any task to the end, to completion

1. I always bring everything to completion, even if almost no interest in the matter remains. 0.99
2. I react painfully to any incompleteness in a task. 0.97
3. In order to start a new task or activity, I absolutely have to finish the previous one first. 0.93
4. I react painfully to any incompleteness in tasks. 0.96
5. I am repelled by any incompleteness. 0.95
6. If I have begun some movement or sequential action, I absolutely have to finish it, otherwise afterward there remains for a long time a feeling of some incompleteness and discomfort that does not go away. 0.95
7. A sense of duty is something that pursues and torments me - I always suffer when I have to abandon something without finishing it. 0.91
8. I have the habit of always bringing a task I have started to completion. 0.93

9. Sometimes I take up a new activity without finishing the previous one - simply because the old one has already become tiresome and boring. -0.97
10. I often interrupt myself in the middle of almost any task, becoming distracted by something else. -0.92
11. I leave many tasks unfinished, because bringing them “up to standard” is of little interest to me. -0.92
12. I have a habit of postponing tasks and often do not finish them. -0.95
13. I find it difficult to carry tasks through to completion. -0.85
14. If I do not do it immediately and right now, while I feel like it, then I will never do it later. -0.90
15. I do not bring tasks to completion. -0.86

The profile of the property of bringing tasks to completion is very similar to the profile of the previous property considered, discipline. Here too, the decisive role (93% of the variance) is played by rationality. Sensing gives an even smaller addition, only 3% influence on the property.

Striving for unification and uniformity

1. A great diversity of behavioral stereotypes and models of human behavior should not be permitted - such diversity harms social stability and the power of the state. 0.89
2. I believe that deviating from the norm is practically always unacceptable. 0.89
3. Uniformity of human genotypes is better than their diversity. 0.86
4. I would like it if employees in banks, post offices, etc. wore uniforms. 0.86
5. I like uniformity in everything. 0.84
6. A diversity of opinions always does more harm than good. 0.82
7. If I monitor deviations from any norm, then it is almost always in order to suppress them, to avoid them. 0.77

This is another cluster of the pack instinct that we almost forgot about. For this property, Di (positively) and Qi with Ne (both functions negatively) are important.
The unequivocal champion on this property, having no competitors in the socion on it – LSI. And here aristocracy, rather than rationality, is already the main factor. The stronger a particular LSI’s Di is, and the weaker at the same time their Qi and Ne are, the more strongly the leveling tendency will be expressed in them. Both in relation to things and in relation to society. In the latter case this is even dangerous for society.