Afanasyev Typology (Psychosophy) - The Latest Large Experimental Study

FOR THE FIRST TIME, DIRECT, MAXIMALLY RELIABLE DIAGNOSIS OF PY TYPES USING QUESTIONNAIRES HAS BECOME POSSIBLE

(based on the widely shared views of proponents of this typology regarding the marker properties of its types)

Part 1

As a result of V. Talanov’s research using SOCIONIC questionnaires (following the latest recalculation of the entire database), approximately 1900 diagnostic questionnaire items have been identified that effectively discriminate among and diagnose the 24 psychotypes of Afanasyev’s typology, and that also characterize with maximum reliability 28 integral indices of this typology (namely, for each of the 4 functions of this typology, question markers have been found for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Physics, Emotion, Volition, and Logic, as well as markers of High values of these functions and of their so-called Principal and Resultative states).

The basis for this selection was the responses of 5600 respondents who, while completing various kinds of questionnaires containing diverse diagnostic questions, indicated (declared) their Psychosophy type (that is, their psychotype according to Afanasyev’s typology).

At present, the results obtained are not yet used in V. Talanov’s questionnaires for diagnosing PY types (as before, they rely on recalculating socionic profiles into PY profiles – which is also sufficiently reliable). Our immediate plans also do not include creating a special online questionnaire exclusively for diagnosing PY types (although this is now possible – all the necessary statistics for this already exist).

However, if anyone wishes to create such an online questionnaire on the basis of the markers obtained, the available calculated data, and the algorithmic procedures that we can provide – send proposals by private message. Preference will be given to those who are closer to us or with whom the author has already held discussions on this or a related topic.

For direct diagnosis of the 24 PY types, the questionnaire would probably have to consist of 480 questions (20 markers for each type). For the sake of increasing reliability, however, diagnosis would be performed, as in V. Talanov’s socionic diagnostic questionnaires, using all 480 questions simultaneously when diagnosing each PY type – that is, by constructing correlations between the respondent’s answers to all questions and 24 diagnostic vectors. A shorter questionnaire of 360 or 240 questions is also possible, but the reliability of diagnosis would, of course, be somewhat worse.

To illustrate some of the results obtained, below we provide short (purely illustrative) lists of marker questions for individual psychotypes and for some integral indices of Afanasyev’s typology:

1st PHYSICS

YES

1. I have a poor feel for new ideas and all kinds of innovative projects, but I do have a feel for convenience, comfort, and coziness.
2. The physical needs of my body are sacred to me; I always follow them and do not allow other people to encroach on them.
3. The key concepts for me are pleasure, satiety, enjoyment, and satisfying the feeling of hunger or thirst.
4. A threat to my money and material well-being is more frightening to me than a threat to my ideas and faith.
5. If one voice urges me to eat while another voice at the same time calls on me to satisfy my curiosity, then as a rule I eat first.
6. Abrupt changes in a situation sometimes confuse me and induce a kind of inhibited state.
7. I am excellent at taking care of myself - I defend my material interests well, and I also never forget to have a good meal on time.
8. My desires and biological needs are sacred to me; I never give them up, always achieve their fulfillment, and, if necessary, overcome the resistance of those around me in order to do so.
9. I often avoid expressing my opinion.
10. A peaceful life is always more valuable than defending certain abstract principles.
11. Very important values for me are the harmony of the space immediately around me — and my relaxation within it.
12. I am diplomatic and would never “tell someone the unvarnished truth to their face.”
13. I quickly reconcile myself to circumstances - a feeling of dissatisfaction does not last long for me.
14. I am more often a listener than a talker.
15. I can be greedy when it comes to food.
16. In general, I always conserve energy and try to do only what is necessary.
17. I assess the material qualities of everything around me very accurately, whether food, drinks, clothing, or household objects.
18. I like simple and coarse, but abundant, food.
19. I often spend time serenely and unhurriedly “licking myself clean,” taking care of myself slowly and peacefully.
20. I prefer to walk the same familiar routes, wear familiar clothes, and in general prefer a measured, predictable everyday life.
21. I am attentive and sensitive to people’s behavior, and therefore not very trusting.
22. I often make perceptive observations.
23. Any discomfort irritates me greatly.
24. I sometimes experience intense and prolonged shame over awkward situations I have gotten into.
25. Every day I recall in detail some long-past events from my life, mentally reliving them.

3rd PHYSICS

YES

1. I have often worried and been concerned about my health.
2. I am rather squeamish and keep away from sick people.
3. I avoid touching anything dusty or dirty - I am squeamish and afraid of catching something.
4. I have an increased squeamishness toward everything dirty.
5. I have a strongly developed sense of squeamishness - some things or objects are so disgusting to touch that they almost make me physically nauseous.
6. In my imagination I often observe the same object at different periods in time.
7. I can be called a “Princess and the Pea” - I am easily irritated by any physical discomfort or inconvenience.
8. The smell and sight of scattered shit or an especially filthy garbage dump with writhing worms can easily cause me almost nauseating disgust.
9. I am very sensitive to pain and punishments.
10. I am squeamish: no poop, other people’s sick children, other people’s saliva, sweaty handshakes, or other people’s dishes. I will hide from all of this in panic and wash, wash, wash.
11. The procedure of shaking hands with people who seem ill to me always makes me nervous.
12. I am a team person - for me there are always our own people and outsiders.
13. I am picky about food.
14. My skin is very sensitive to touch (sometimes even painfully sensitive).
15. Which is more characteristic of you? - 1) I know how to enjoy comforts 5) I often notice existing inconveniences
16. I always think things through carefully before acting.
17. I often experience and feel a sense of almost physical disgust - toward certain foods, smells, animals, or the behavior and speech manner of some people.
18. If I see a wriggling worm crawling out of food left on the plate that I have just been eating, I can easily vomit from disgust.
19. I often experience an emotion of nauseating disgust.
20. I am squeamish, and it often happens that after shaking hands with certain people I try to go wash my hands as quickly as possible.
21. The material, physical side of the world is something I do not avoid and in which I want to be secure, but in which I nevertheless am never really completely confident. Because of this, at one time I impose increased workloads on myself “to the point of exhaustion,” at another I drag out and get tangled up in apartment repairs, at another I practice some “special” methods of improving my health, and so on.
22. I find it very unpleasant to watch television scenes of surgery on the human body, when the body is opened and the internal organs are visible.
23. If I accidentally put something wrong, barely edible, into my mouth, I usually immediately have a reflexive nauseous reaction.
24. I often catch colds - my immunity to cold viruses is clearly reduced (meaning various acute respiratory infections with a runny nose or “itching” in the nose and pharynx)
25. I like art galleries; I like looking at and discussing works of art.

4th PHYSICS

YES

1. I often forget about my body, forget its limbs, forget pain and pleasures, and seem to dissolve into the universe.
2. Compared with others, I more often ignore the demands of my body and my appearance.
3. Sometimes I find it difficult to focus my visual attention on my surroundings: everything seems somehow strange, as if trembling, swaying, and flickering.
4. Sometimes for long periods I lose all interest in comfort and even lose the ability to distinguish at all whether something is comfortable or uncomfortable for me.
5. My states are characterized by a state with impatient thoughts that compel me all the time to talk about something or, when alone, to pace from corner to corner.
6. Sometimes in conversation I return again and again to the same topic, displaying even a certain stickiness in this.
7. I am not very practical and am generally indifferent to everyday household matters.
8. Compared with others, I more often neglect taking care of my body and my comforts.
9. Scientific inquiry and belief in authorities are completely incompatible things.
10. People often seem to me like moving mannequins, and everything around me seems unreal.
11. Sometimes I seem to dissolve into the universe, forgetting about my body, forgetting pain and pleasures.
12. I am always interested in refuting an existing system of views and constructing a new one in its place.
13. Far too often I experience difficulty concentrating and a lazy diffuseness of attention.
14. “Instead of a hat, while walking he put on a frying pan” - that describes me.
15. For relaxation I like to wander and let my imagination roam freely.
16. I periodically have severe depressive states when I do not want to live.
17. My taste sensations are usually dulled - I suspect they are weaker than those of other people.
18. In a short time I can come up with many different ideas and alternative explanations on a given topic.
19. Other people will always find it difficult to know what is “in my head.”
20. Food rarely gives me an appetite; often it seems almost tasteless altogether.
21. I am often drawn to “feats”; otherwise I get bored.
22. My favorite activity is to penetrate the immutable essence of things and phenomena.
23. I am clumsy when dressing - I often get mixed up about top and bottom, sleeves and trouser legs, when putting on a shirt or trousers.
24. Sometimes my own body seems alien to me.
25. I am often physically clumsy.

Part 2 (continued)

We continue illustrating the results obtained (abbreviated lists of marker questions for certain individual integral indices of Afanasyev’s typology and for individual PY types, included only as examples):

HIGH EMOTION

1. I comprehend the world through feelings, emotions, and empathy.
2. Emotionality rather than cold rationality is more characteristic of me.
3. I understand feelings and relationships, and rules of behavior, better than the logic of business.
4. I usually understand a person’s feelings better than their conversations.
5. I understand the experiences and moods of the people around me well.
6. Feeling is more important to me than thought.
7. I often notice emotional nuances that others do not feel.
8. I know how to, and like to, speak loftily and passionately about my feelings.
9. I sense other people’s emotions well.
10. It is true that I never make mistakes in the use of my feelings and outward expression of emotions - they are a very precise instrument for exerting timely influence on the mass of people around me.
11. I am lyrical and romantic; sentimental sensitivity and vulnerability are characteristic of my personality.
12. Feelings, passions, emotional memories, and experiences occupy more time in my thoughts than logical reasoning or business calculations.
13. The world of my inner ethical feelings and experiences is precisely the field in which decisions are made.
14. The world of people, the world of experiences and feelings, is much more interesting to me than the world of machines and laws of nature.
15. I am a very emotionally sensitive and benevolent person, finely sensing nuances in relationships.
16. I have a gift for empathy and am excellent at calming another person and relieving their emotional tension.
17. My emotions are characterized by depth, drama, and persistence.
18. I always notice if someone’s mood nearby has “sunk,” and I can usually easily understand what caused it and how it will develop further.
19. I always quickly sense changes in the mood of the person I am speaking with.
20. I constantly sense “emotional emanations,” the emotional signals of other people.

PRINCIPAL VOLITION

1. In almost any undertaking I want to be in charge.
2. I take everything under my control.
3. I derive the greatest pleasure when I manage to break someone’s resistance.
4. In my energy and businesslike efficiency I sometimes resemble a fast-moving locomotive.
5. I very much like subordinating the external environment to myself and imposing my will.
6. I do not mind being the center of attention more often.
7. I am easily angered.
8. I know how to get what I want.
9. “I came, I saw, I conquered” - that describes my style of life.
10. Exploiting fools and weaklings is normal and natural.
11. I am a person who is usually fearless and “tough” in my behavior.
12. I am uninhibited and at times noisy, more decisive and energetic than others.
13. I am often very active, constantly striving for conversation and communication, and at the same time feel excitedly happy.
14. My character is distinguished by liveliness and boldness in approaching new people.
15. In conversations with people I more often like to “shake them up” rather than balance them.
16. I effectively solve almost all problems that arise.
17. I know how to take decisive measures.
18. I often suspect hidden motives in other people.
19. I have aggressive-impulsive traits.
20. It is difficult for me to forgive others.

RESULTATIVE LOGIC

1. I can be called a moralist.
2. I spend time reflecting on past mistakes.
3. I have a tendency to demand strict observance of social norms of behavior from people.
4. I am not interested in theoretical discussions.
5. It is true that questions concerning the philosophy of existence, the boundaries of the human “self,” and the like have never seriously occupied me.
6. I become irritated if someone tries to push me into hasty action.
7. I have high ethical standards of behavior by which I live.
8. I usually answer a question in short sentences; I do not like constructing long phrases.
9. I do not like problematic matters; in company I prefer discussing simple things that everyone understands.
10. Given my character, the work of a secretary or executive secretary would suit me very well.
11. It is true that I almost never intrude into other people’s disputes.
12. I often worry about something that has not yet happened and does not yet exist, but which could in principle happen.
13. It is true that I never allow myself actions that are unfair to other people or humiliating to someone.
14. I usually pay attention to other people’s actions only from the standpoint of how well they conform to moral norms and general expectations.
15. I am more often a listener than a talker.
16. I like, and am better than others at, serving the interests of my family or my collective.
17. I usually answer any question “in one piece” and exhaustively at once, without waiting for follow-up questions.
18. I avoid philosophical discussions.
19. I usually scrupulously adhere to the planned sequence of necessary actions.
20. When making decisions, I always involuntarily think about whether they might harm the interests of humanity, society, and other people.
21. I do not like complications. Everything true should be simple.

Type LVEF (“Einstein”)

1. The superior should be the servant of all the others.
2. Compared with others, I more often neglect taking care of my body and my comforts.
3. Sometimes for long periods I lose all interest in comfort and even lose the ability to distinguish at all whether something is comfortable or uncomfortable for me.
4. I am not very practical and am generally indifferent to everyday household matters.
5. It is true that I am worse than others at consoling people with words.
6. In everything, theory usually interests me more than practice.
7. I have prolonged periods of bad, melancholy-depressive mood with indifferent apathy.
8. I notice all sorts of subtle nuances in development trends earlier than others.
9. Being a skeptic by nature, I am subject to frequent doubts and hesitations and notice all the contradictions and imperfections of the surrounding world.
10. I like watching serious historical films.
11. My taste sensations are usually dulled - I suspect they are weaker than those of other people.
12. My interests are usually separated, distanced from the interests of others.
13. I perceive the surrounding world more through fixed distances between objects and through their mutual tensions than through their movement relative to one another.
14. My eyelids tire quickly; they usually seem tiredly or lazily lowered and sit low, so that my eyes even appear narrowed - this becomes especially noticeable toward evening (as a rule, less so in the morning).
15. I can stand or sit motionless for a long time without any difficulty if required.
16. Everything biological and directly instinctive in me is very strongly inhibited; it very rarely breaks through to the surface.

Type EFLV (“Bukharin”)

1. I often feel unable to cope with tasks.
2. I notice even faint nuances in people’s behavior.
3. Very often, and not without pleasure, I occupy myself in life with “finding an approach to people.”
4. I often become disoriented and confused in my own thoughts.
5. I have episodes when my heartbeat slows and my body becomes covered in sweat.
6. I am lyrical and romantic; sentimental sensitivity and vulnerability are characteristic of my personality.
7. I regularly dream and fantasize about things that may happen to me.
8. I believe that a person cannot live normally and happily unless they realize and feel themselves to be a continuation and instrument of some higher will above them.
9. I am very vulnerable; I have a highly tragic and anguished reaction to the world.
10. I sense other people’s intonations, gestures, and looks well.
11. The world of people, the world of experiences and feelings, is much more interesting to me than the world of machines and laws of nature.
12. I sympathize with homeless people.
13. I feel comfortable if I am a member of a “pack” that has a strong, authoritarian leader.
14. The professions of bouquet florist, flower grower, interior designer, clothing designer, cosmetologist, or confectioner would suit me very well.
15. I have noticed that when frightened, my thoughts begin to move chaotically and in large leaps, disorderly snatching separate frozen pictures from memory.
16. Sometimes I become so anxious that it becomes difficult to breathe.

(What historical Bukharin has to do with the name here – we do not know. Indeed, in places some insane versions of “personal-name” labels for the types were chosen by its author Afanasyev in this typology)

Type VLEF (“Socrates”)

1. I very much like subordinating the external environment to myself and imposing my will.
2. Exploiting fools and weaklings is normal and natural.
3. I like difficult and dangerous practical tasks that require will, forcefulness, logic, decisiveness, and courage.
4. I am “thick-skinned” with respect to all kinds of negative forecasts from others.
5. I always know very well, at every single moment, what I need and what I want.
6. I usually have very high mental work capacity, with good concentration, quick memory, and clarity of thought.
7. I like coarse “sadistic” jokes.
8. I am proud that I never do anything useless.
9. Striving for any kind of “universal order” is always harmful - life itself contradicts it.
10. People often seem to me like moving mannequins, and everything around me seems unreal.
11. It is true that I am never at a loss for words.
12. Unexpected changes of plans or instructions do not irritate me.
13. I am inclined to consider all problems from a global point of view.
14. I often spend several days participating on the internet in some protracted “scholastic” disputes on abstract topics.
15. When the chain of events begins to change according to a scenario not foreseen by the initial plan, I take this completely calmly - I know how to extract benefit from any development of events as it unfolds.
16. I strive to go where no human foot has trodden.

Type ELVF (“Andersen”)

1. My emotions are characterized by depth, drama, and persistence.
2. Dejection, resentment, regret, and “stubbornness out of spite” are frequent feelings for me.
3. I have difficulty falling asleep.
4. Sometimes at night I have jumped up to write down some thought that came into my head.
5. I periodically have severe depressive states when I do not want to live.
6. “Instead of a hat, while walking he put on a frying pan” - that describes me.
7. I like an atmosphere of tragic passions.
8. I am drawn to situations of bravado, luck, and nerve-stimulating risk “on the edge.”
9. I like situations with increasing emotional tension.
10. I often find it difficult to fall asleep.
11. As a rule, it was more important for me to understand the meaning of life across decades. centuries and eternity than to solve several current tasks.
12. As a child I usually cried loudly and lamented aloud if something did not work out for me in a game.
13. Food rarely gives me an appetite; often it seems almost tasteless altogether.
14. When I begin composing the texts of some upcoming speeches of mine, I often get carried away and enter an extremely excited state.
15. Sometimes it is pleasant to feel my own subordination and experience humiliation.
16. I have a tendency toward aggression directed at myself.
17. My strong point is premonition, foreseeing approaching changes.

RESULTATIVE AND PROCESSIONAL STATES OF PSYCHOSOPHY FUNCTIONS

(empirical marker data from the statistics of V. L. Talanov’s questionnaires)

RESULTATIVE PHYSICS

1. I often leave my room in disorder.
2. Disorder does not bother me.
3. It is often difficult to resist boasting or surprising acquaintances with some special information that I possess.
4. I easily ignore all external sensory stimuli that interfere (such as light, sounds, commotion, smells, or the color design of a room).
5. The need to plan my day is completely alien and repugnant to me.
6. Prolonged preparation and planning of events exhaust me; it is easier for me to orient myself “on the spot.”
7. It is always better simply to expect the worst than to be poorly prepared for it.
8. I am indifferent to the comfort of a bed - I fall asleep easily anywhere.
9. Among acquaintances I more often act as a diplomat than as a guardian of ethical norms.
10. I enjoy being part of a noisy crowd.
11. Sometimes I look at an object and cannot immediately remember the word by which that object is called.
12. Sometimes I am frightened by loud voices and vivid images arising from memory.
13. I perceive the reflection of experiences on people’s faces rather immediately and as a whole, without examining individual details.
14. I usually do not give a damn how I look, but if people suddenly begin paying attention to me and my appearance, I feel very awkward.
15. I have prolonged periods of bad, melancholy-depressive mood with indifferent apathy.
16. I often cautiously “search” through my thoughts with my imagination for some trap or possible surprise.
17. I periodically have severe depressive states when I do not want to live.
18. I can stare at something, mechanically keeping my gaze fixed on the object for a long time.
19. I often eat store-bought broths made from concentrates.
20. Sloppy people do not irritate me.

PROCESSIONAL PHYSICS

1. I usually scrupulously adhere to the planned sequence of necessary actions.
2. Taking care of my body and stomach is a pleasant process.
3. Sports and manual labor are a natural everyday need of any healthy organism.
4. I have often worried and been concerned about my health.
5. I have a strongly developed sense of squeamishness - some things or objects are so disgusting to touch that they almost make me physically nauseous.
6. In order to start a new task, I absolutely must first finish the previous one.
7. I like cohesion and organization in everything; I do not tolerate uncertainty, improvisation, deviations, or discord.
8. I have a very keen sense of smell.
9. If I see a wriggling worm crawling out of food left on the plate that I have just been eating, I can easily vomit from disgust.
10. I sense the distance to a nearby tree or person very accurately.
11. I react painfully to any incompleteness in tasks.
12. To restore justice and punish a crook or dishonest card cheat who is trying to be more cunning and thereby luckier than others, I am prepared even to incur additional expenses.
13. I would very much enjoy designing parks and doing landscape design.
14. I often worry about my health.
15. Censorship is justified if the work of the press begins to interfere with the interests of state power.
16. By ear I can easily distinguish the musical note “C” from the neighboring note “D” (that is, even without comparison, hearing them individually, I will not confuse “C” with “D”)..
17. I often recall my past pleasant sensations - sounds, smells, colors, touches.
18. The material, physical side of the world is something I do not avoid and in which I want to be secure, but in which I nevertheless am never really completely confident. Because of this, at one time I impose increased workloads on myself “to the point of exhaustion,” at another I drag out and get tangled up in apartment repairs, at another I practice some “special” methods of improving my health, and so on.
19. The more dangerous the situation, the more I switch to visual information; in a stressful situation my eyes always play an especially important role for me.
20. I am highly sensitive to my success; it keeps me warm for a long time afterward.

RESULTATIVE EMOTION

1. I like uncompromising directness in expressing my feelings, without “evasions.”
2. I do not believe in people’s altruism; every person is a dyed-in-the-wool egoist at heart.
3. I prefer the language of strong and clear emotions rather than half-tones.
4. Among people close to me, I often talk about foolish things done by some of my colleagues or acquaintances.
5. In emotions, as a rule, I am attracted by their strength and passion.
6. In books and films I prefer not emotional half-tones, but strong and whole feelings.
7. I like people with strong emotions.
8. I often have so many plans and new ideas that this even interferes with my work.
9. I easily find flaws in my work and postpone the final stage many times in order to correct what has already been completed.
10. Sometimes I deliberately spoil another person’s mood - so that they suffer and know their place.
11. When I am mercilessly reprimanded for a valid reason, I feel gratitude and even a certain satisfaction.
12. I am a master at making gloomy forecasts.
13. I like optimistic books and films devoted to great discoveries.
14. I am an open person, without “secrets.”
15. As a child I had major problems with penmanship - my grades were lowered because of my handwriting.
16. If a person is not completely devoted in their soul to the place of their birth, to their “small homeland,” then hardly much good can be expected from them.
17. In speech I more often use changes in voice volume and speech tempo than rising or falling intonations.
18. I have no critical filters at the input to thinking through any situations - therefore I always immediately and automatically begin thinking through everything that enters my field of attention, without discarding or sorting any grounds for doing so at all.
19. Practically every day I think about which people around me are “our own” and which are “outsiders.”
20. My skin is usually both hot and moist at the same time.

PROCESSIONAL EMOTION

1. I believe that even the highest interests of the state cannot take priority over laws and citizens’ rights.
2. Sometimes when communicating with people it seems to me that I am a child in the role and mask of an adult, and that I may be exposed at any moment.
3. I usually answer a question in short sentences; I do not like constructing long phrases.
4. Sometimes I get “stuck” observing the gradual change over time of some internal sensation of mine.
5. Irritable obsession is characteristic of my personality.
6. I get headaches fairly often - on average no less than once a month.
7. I often get “stuck” on a feeling of hostile confrontation between myself and the world.
8. When I sit and think about something, in the end it is difficult for me to say how much time has passed: fifteen minutes or thirty.
9. I easily fall asleep to the quiet sound of a television mumbling something.
10. It is true that in my attitude toward other people’s views and convictions I am not squeamish at all.
11. I experience insomnia.
12. I get headaches more often than once a month.
13. I have had or currently have chronic cystitis or urethritis, which usually worsened with hypothermia.
14. I know how to conceal my true attitude toward a person behind my facial expression.
15. I am often in a kind of detached pensiveness.
16. From kindergarten onward, children should be taught the sanctity of other people’s rights and other people’s lives.
17. A daily schedule and I are incompatible things.
18. I find films in which one fight follows another frankly boring.
19. I sometimes get a suddenly appearing headache caused by certain strong aromatic odors.
20. I easily throw out of my head everything no longer relevant, everything that has passed.

RESULTATIVE VOLITION

1. I can and like to play active sports games requiring quick reactions for a long time without tiring.
2. I almost always look on the bright side of life.
3. The most tempting solution to any and every problem will be a radical solution, expressed in the most contrasting rather than softened terms.
4. I hate weaklings.
5. The world is divided into plebeians and aristocrats, and that is correct.
6. If a society has no masters and subjects obedient to them, it is boring to live in such a society.
7. I like people who make radical decisions.
8. I sit at a computer for more than an hour a day on average.
9. Sometimes I fail to restrain myself and become rude, even if this conflicts with my interests.
10. I can verbally smear another person, giving them a derogatory verbal characterization in my conversation with someone else - and doing so in that person’s presence as a third party.
11. Love and hatred occur for me more often than states of happiness or dejection directed at no one in particular.
12. When losing at cards, I cannot restrain my irritation and indignation.
13. Striving for any kind of “universal order” is always harmful - life itself contradicts it.
14. I respect only people who can put up resistance; spineless people are uninteresting and boring to me.
15. Laws are needed in order to restrict the movements of simpletons and weaklings.
16. I easily identify the most probable and main scenario for future events.
17. I believe that slaves in the slaveholding states of the Ancient World actually had a much better situation than is usually described by various historians and “humanist” writers.
18. I like joking with and “teasing” people I know.
19. The sight of certain well-known faces causes me almost physiological revulsion.
20. Utility and common sense are more important than rules and laws.
21. People will inevitably use against you everything they are able to learn about you.

PROCESSIONAL VOLITION

1. It is true that I do not like action films.
2. I have never sought and do not seek to speak before masses of people; I prefer communication only within a circle of trusted acquaintances.
3. I avoid philosophical discussions.
4. In political correctness, with its prohibitions on generalizing judgments about groups of people, I see more advantages than disadvantages.
5. I live and maintain my activity mainly only because every day I try to fulfill my duty to my planned life program.
6. I worry about many things.
7. I am always looking for my place in the common formation; it is very important for me to feel it constantly.
8. In games I have liked, and still like, not being caught more than catching someone myself.
9. Compared with most people, I am very careful both with confidential information about my friends and with my relationships with them.
10. Without a sense of belonging to a collective, I would feel uncomfortable.
11. It is true that I do not like “troublemakers” who act across or against the general movement and disturb equilibrium in society.
12. When I experience joy or sadness, they are most often rather abstract, directed at no one, and of unclear cause.
13. I usually do not like it when, in a discussion, people begin attacking someone’s merits - I immediately want to defend the people who possess those merits.
14. A limited and parliamentary constitutional monarchy is unquestionably better than autocracy.
15. After sunbathing, I quickly develop an even tan.
16. More than once I have caught the festive or angry feelings of a mass of people.
17. My body weight is unstable.
18. The people who arouse the greatest apprehension and distrust in me are those in whom I see a tendency toward dictatorial behavior and violence.
19. I have a habit of mechanically tracking moving objects, keeping my gaze on them for a long time.
20. I always fail to see the useful and good possibilities in an object I am studying; the negative possibilities are what I see immediately.
21. I am more often dissatisfied with everything than strongly satisfied with anything.

RESULTATIVE LOGIC

1. I can be called a moralist.
2. I have a tendency to demand strict observance of social norms of behavior from people.
3. I am not interested in theoretical discussions.
4. It is true that questions concerning the philosophy of existence, the boundaries of the human “self,” and the like have never seriously occupied me.
5. I become irritated if someone tries to push me into hasty action.
6. I have high ethical standards of behavior by which I live.
7. Given my character, the work of a secretary or executive secretary would suit me very well.
8. It is true that I almost never intrude into other people’s disputes.
9. It is true that I never allow myself actions that are unfair to other people or humiliating to someone.
10. I like, and am better than others at, serving the interests of my family or my collective.
11. When making decisions, I always involuntarily think about whether they might harm the interests of humanity, society, and other people.
12. I do not like complications. Everything true should be simple.
13. I do not seek to rethink what already works satisfactorily.
14. I like putting things in order.
15. I carry out any task in order from beginning to end; I do not have the habit of starting in the middle or from whatever point happens to come to mind.
16. I often feel sad or depressed.
17. It is true that I do not like excessive philosophizing about anything.
18. It is difficult for me to restructure previously prepared plans on the fly; I usually prefer to act according to plan, ignoring unexpected developments.
19. It is difficult for me to speak quickly.
20. I feel more comfortable if today I know exactly what I will do tomorrow.
21. I display my imagination and erudition only when there is a direct need for them.

PROCESSIONAL LOGIC

1. I know how to enjoy philosophical reflection.
2. I like working with other people’s opinions - combining them, improving them, or setting them against one another.
3. I am usually painstakingly inquisitive about insignificant details - both when I ask questions myself and when I listen to someone else’s account.
4. I believe that petty cheating does not mean deceiving someone.
5. I often scatter my belongings around.
6. I like talking - I can converse for a long time.
7. The internal “pictures” in my head almost always dictate what around me enters the sphere of my attention and what falls outside it.
8. I often automatically take a pencil, hairpin, or notebook extended to me with my left hand.
9. It happens that I am not always careful about generally accepted rules and violate norms of communal living if doing so is personally convenient for me.
10. I pay less attention than others, and less often, to various prohibitions and restrictions - they are not written for me.
11. Very little worries me.
12. Sometimes I am reproached for “having no conscience.”
13. I like introducing elements of scandal into a discussion.
14. I often make plans at the very last moment.
15. My work capacity is very uneven; it is characterized by poorly predictable declines and rises.
16. I do not worry about disorder - it will sort itself out.
17. Sometimes I pester people with various questions.
18. I rely on my ability to act “according to the situation,” so I rarely prepare in advance.
19. The unexpected shape of certain objects often suddenly arouses my interest.
20. The professions of political scientist, futurologist, or futures-market trader would suit me very well.
21. I rely more on improvisation than on lengthy preparation.

The lists of markers of resultative and processional states of Psychosophy functions presented above were obtained on the basis of statistical processing of questionnaire responses from 5600 respondents who declared their Psychosophy types.

Anyone can dig through these lists and look for whether they contain the expected meaning or any meaning at all.

We warn that the questions in these lists have very low loadings – much lower than those of markers of high and low function values or markers of specific PY types. Although questions with the maximum loadings were selected.

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SOCIONIC PROFILES OF DECLARED PY TYPES

The results presented below were obtained by V. L. Talanov in 2018-2021 using different versions of standardized socionic diagnostic questionnaires, whose 5600 respondents also declared their Psychosophy types (types according to “Psychoyoga,” PY types).

In each of the 24 groups of PY types declared by respondents, it is possible to calculate their averaged socionic parameters measured by the questionnaires.

It is most convenient to do this first for the socionic traits (which in V. Talanov’s questionnaires are measured directly, as linear correlations of responses with 15 diagnostic coefficient vectors).

Next, the socionic trait profile composed of these correlations (see Table 1) can also be converted into a socionic type profile – including by using the socionic traits measured and then averaged within the group of respondents of each PY type (see the final Table 4 and the attached images of the 24 diagrams).

Only first, in order for such a conversion of the socionic trait profile into a socionic type profile to be of high quality, it is necessary to change in advance the weights of all 15 socionic traits measured by the questionnaires, that is, to multiply them by certain coefficients (see Table 2). The point is that in socionics its 15 traits are taken into account with different weights for the purpose of constructing types – extraversion-introversion and logic-ethics, for example, contribute most strongly to type formation, whereas such traits as Process-Result, Carefree-Farsighted, and so on contribute to type properties with only a small fraction of their power.

After multiplying the trait profiles averaged for each group of declared Psychosophy types by the coefficients from the second column of Table 2, the so-called “effective” trait profiles are obtained (in this case, for the 24 declared Psychosophy types; see Table 3), taking into account the different weights with which the 15 traits are used in socionics. These profiles can then be converted, with the aid of auxiliary Table 5, into type profiles. The result is the socionic type profiles of the 24 Psychosophy types (see Table 4).

The same 24 profiles are depicted in the attached figures as bar charts.

The principal conclusion that follows from these figures is that the MAJORITY of Psychosophy types correspond not to pure or even comparatively “pure” socionic types, but to strongly mixed socionic types representing intermediate cases (mixtures of profiles) simultaneously among several “standard” sociotypes.

It is precisely for this reason that, from the point of view of old-school socionists, there is a certain convenience in drawing on Psychosophy descriptions in addition to socionic ones when it is necessary to describe the characteristics of some case that is intermediate from the standpoint of socionics.

Although, in truth, it is much more convenient (and also much more scientific) to do this without any Psychosophy at all, remaining within socionics alone. All that is required is to use a person’s full socionic profile rather than only the name of the “standard” type closest to that person in its properties.

A Psychosophy description provides no additional information beyond what is already contained in a person’s full socionic profile.

Table 1

Average values of socionic traits (in fractions of their unit sigma) in groups of respondents who declared their Psychosophy types

Table 2

Table 3

Effective (that is, taking into account the weight of their use in socionics) mean values of socionic traits in groups of respondents who declared their PY type

Table 4

Averaged socionic type profiles for the group of each declared PY type (recalculated from the mean values of socionic traits in these PY groups)

Table 5

Matrix for converting a trait profile into a type profile

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