SADOMASOCHISM AND SOME CLUSTERS OF WHITE INTUITION - in light of an analysis of the biological mechanisms of Ni, Se, and the Decisive pole as a whole

(after the questions - correlation of the question profile with the profile of the entire cluster)

Cluster No. 27:

Ni – Drive toward pain stress - a direct marker of dependence on stress-induced endorphin releases, leading to a pleasant and rewarding increase in dopamine

Cluster Ni No. 27
(averaging the profiles of 4 scale questions, 890 respondent responses in total)

Contribution of traits to the variance of the property, percent:

Ni – Drive toward pain stress - a direct marker of dependence on stress-induced endorphin releases, leading to a pleasant and rewarding increase in dopamine

1. After experiencing pain, I almost always have a pleasantly blissful “aftertaste.” 0,98
2. For me, pain is often accompanied by bliss that washes over me afterward. 0,95
3. Fear can be “sweet,” at least for me - you experience fear, and then you feel bliss spreading through the body. 0,94
4. After experiencing terror, I often feel a “rebound” in the form of blissful joy spreading through all the limbs of my body. 0,92

Cluster No. 1:

Ni - Likes to play the role of a dependent, submissive victim in relation to strong people

Cluster Ni No. 1
(averaging the profiles of 10 scale questions, 35766 respondent responses in total)

Contribution of traits to the variance of the property, percent:

Ni - Likes to play the role of a dependent, submissive victim in relation to strong people

1. In relationships with domineering people, I like to play the role of a submissive victim. 0,94
2. I sometimes catch myself finding that, in relationships with strong and aggressive people, I subconsciously like to play a dependent role, while being somewhat capricious and provocative. 0,91
3. Sometimes it is pleasant to feel my subordination and experience humiliation. 0,90
4. On internet forums, I sometimes go along with the stronger side without delving particularly deeply into the substance of the dispute. 0,87
5. I readily and with secret pleasure surrender to people who are confident, aggressively assertive, and never back down from anything. 0,84
6. I sometimes like to feel like a victim. 0,83
7. I prefer managers with a domineering and strongly willful manner of behavior. 0,76
8. Quite often, my behavior seems as if I am deliberately “asking for” someone else’s aggression, additionally provoking it with my words. 0,52 ----------------------------------—
9. I consider myself responsible for ensuring that no one encroaches on the freedom and independence of those close to me. -0,72
10. Attempts to influence me not by persuasion but by orders and coercive pressure practically always cause a strong or even angry inner protest in me. -0,76

Cluster No. 3

Ni - Masochism, desire for pain, desire to phasically raise dopamine levels through the release of endorphins in response to pain (endorphin activity is very strong)

Cluster Ni No. 3
(averaging the profiles of 10 scale questions, 55624 respondent responses in total)

Contribution of traits to the variance of the property, percent:

Ni - Masochism, desire for pain, desire to phasically raise dopamine levels through the release of endorphins in response to pain (endorphin activity is very strong)

1. Sometimes I like to hurt myself. 0,97
2. There is a certain masochism in my character: at times I like to engage in self-abasement. 0,93
3. I have fantasies involving ideas of self-torment and self-destruction. 0,89
4. I have masochistic tendencies. 0,89
5. At times I take an interest in painful and humiliating sensations and experience a certain “high” while undergoing them. 0,89
6. I sometimes like being humiliated and even being caused moderate pain. 0,85
7. Sometimes I myself seek out suffering and self-sacrifice. 0,84
8. I am prone to aggressive thoughts directed at myself. 0,72
9. Sometimes I deliberately provoke criticism of myself. 0,72
10. I am not very sensitive to punishment - I am more likely simply to take offense than to correct my behavior. 0,32

MORE ABOUT SOME LITTLE-KNOWN CLUSTERS OF INTROVERTED INTUITION:

Cluster 2

Ni - Depressiveness, apathy, abulia, low level of background tonic dopaminergic activity

Cluster Ni No. 2
(averaging the profiles of 37 scale questions, 70248 respondent responses in total)

Contribution of traits to the variance of the property, percent:

Depressiveness, apathy, abulia, low level of background tonic dopaminergic activity

1. I have prolonged periods of bad, melancholy-depressive mood accompanied by indifferent apathy. 0,97
2. At least once a week, the surrounding world begins to seem mercilessly cold and harsh to me, devoid of warmth, while the future seems hopeless. 0,97
3. Lately I have been very unlucky, and I feel completely “out of sorts” and unlike my usual self. 0,94
4. I often feel dissatisfaction or fatigue. 0,93
5. I frequently have depressive states in which everything seems bleak and hopeless. 0,92
6. I am often plagued by bad mood, dejection, and tension. 0,92
7. I often experience quiet melancholy and a feeling of oppressive heaviness in my soul. 0,92
8. I often experience despair and hopelessness for long periods. 0,90
9. I often have sad states in which everything suddenly begins to seem hopeless. 0,89
10. I am often in a sad mood. 0,89
11. I have a sense of doom; sometimes I even regret being alive. 0,88
12. I am often troubled by my gloominess, anxiety, irritability, as well as my frequent tendency to get “stuck” on certain thoughts or on some unpleasant state. 0,87
13. I often feel my loneliness set against the whole world. 0,87
14. I am often in a state of inactive depression. 0,87
15. At least once a week, I feel deeply unhappy. 0,86
16. I am often tormented by apathy (an unwillingness to move), accompanied by loss of interest in everything. 0,85
17. My thoughts are often drawn toward death and nonexistence, and I want to think about this for a long time as a good way out and the best revenge on myself and others. 0,84
18. I have depressive states in which everything seems bleak and hopeless. 0,84
19. I often experience a state in which I am fed up with everything. 0,84
20. For more than half of the time, pessimistic and depressive thoughts predominate in me. 0,83
21. I have a tendency toward “black humor,” pessimism, and apathy; often, instead of cheering another person up, I myself fall under the influence of their minor-key mood. 0,83
22. In most of my states, in terms of mood I am closer to “minor” than to “major.” 0,82
23. My life is filled with much suffering. 0,81
24. I am troubled by a sense of hopelessness and the uselessness of everything. 0,81
25. I often feel lonely. 0,80
26. Perhaps I am capable of something brilliant, but I do not know what for - in general, I do not know why I live. 0,76
27. I am often bored, and at the same time I do not want anything. 0,76
28. In life, I constantly lack feelings of pleasure and satisfaction. 0,72
29. I do not know how to derive pleasure from the ordinary course of life, from its ordinary activities. 0,67
30. I have a problem with desires and drives - I often feel a deficit of them. 0,58
31. My self-esteem is constantly fluctuating, and it is often very low. 0,49
32. I am often bored and do not know how to find and obtain pleasure in the ordinary course of life. 0,40
33. When I am in a bad mood, I am more prone to melancholy and an unwillingness to move than to anxiety and restlessness. 0,39 -------------------------------------—
34. I am quite satisfied with life. -0,88
35. It is true that I very rarely have a prolonged sad or depressed mood. -0,92
36. I am an optimist, confident in my health and my abilities; I strive for pleasant sensations, and everything is excellent for me. -0,93
37. My usual state is a feeling of active elation accompanied by a sense of complete control over the situation and of security. -0,96

Partly, the “depressiveness” cluster is explained by a low level of acetylcholine activity, but to a greater extent it is nevertheless associated with a deficit of dopaminergic activity. Probably, it is precisely for this reason that introverted intuitive types, with approximately the same production of endorphins in response to pain stress as extraverted sensing types (enhanced in all Decisive types, and capable of raising dopamine levels with accompanying pleasure), nevertheless experience a somewhat greater attraction to BDSM-style activities.

Cluster 4

Ni - Tendency toward irony and sarcasm

Cluster Ni No. 4
(averaging the profiles of 8 scale questions, 4240 respondent responses in total)

Contribution of traits to the variance of the property, percent:

Tendency toward irony and sarcasm

1. Sarcasm often occurs in my texts. 0,93
2. Irony and sarcasm are personally closer and more understandable to me than optimistic romanticism. 0,89
3. My fantasies often border on irony and sarcasm. 0,88
4. My words often carry an intonation of irony and distrust. 0,86
5. When someone seems to be seeking sympathy from me, my first reaction is to respond with a light tease, or to offer sympathy mixed with teasing. 0,83
6. More often, I try not to raise someone else’s enthusiasm but, on the contrary, to “bring it down” or even ridicule it. 0,70
7. I often use irony, presenting someone or something in a funny and absurd light. 0,65
8. I know how to be ironic about myself. 0,62

Cluster 7

Ni - Lying, readily resorts to deception (on the one hand - truth and falsehood become mixed in his fantasies, and therefore he does not see a clear boundary between them; on the other hand - he does not like people and has reduced social responsibility)

Cluster Ni No. 7
(averaging the profiles of 32 scale questions, 56003 respondent responses in total)

Contribution of traits to the variance of the property, percent:

Lying, readily resorts to deception (on the one hand - in his fantasies, what is true and what is false become mixed together, and he therefore does not see a clear boundary between them; on the other hand - he does not particularly like people and, on average, has reduced social responsibility)

1. I know how, with healthy cynicism and convincingly, to demonstrate “heartfelt repentance,” and I use this quite often. 0,93
2. I know how and like to pretend in order to mislead an opponent and gain an advantage from doing so. 0,89
3. Sometimes I lie in order to obtain something or achieve other goals of mine. 0,88
4. When necessary, I can skillfully act hypocritically, and if needed, lie as well - I do not particularly approve of simpletons fixated on their own honesty. 0,88
5. When avoiding trouble, I can outwit others and wriggle out of it better than others. 0,88
6. Cunning and the ability to pretend are intelligence itself. 0,87
7. Sometimes I deceive others in order to succeed. 0,87
8. In most situations, I am very resourceful when trouble threatens. 0,85
9. I like playing games in which one is required to deceive someone successfully and skillfully. 0,85
10. If my friend is trying to “rip someone off” and deceive them, I will not intervene with criticism or interfere. 0,84
11. I believe that cheating in small matters does not mean deceiving. 0,84
12. Sometimes I feel a desire to quietly pocket some small item and take it unnoticed out of a supermarket (not for gain, but for the exciting sensations). 0,83
13. I am excellent at talking my way out of things. 0,83
14. I often deliberately leave the people with whom I interact under a misapprehension. 0,82
15. Sometimes I derive pleasure from successfully deceiving another person. 0,80
16. I can convincingly say something other than what I think; I have a gift for convincing insincerity. 0,79
17. In my experience, it is easier and more effective to deceive people than to persuade them with arguments. 0,78
18. Sometimes I deceive partners in order to postpone until some “later” time either an unpleasant matter or the fulfillment of a difficult obligation. 0,77
19. Even obvious and deliberate human lying rarely truly outrages me because, in essence, everyone sins a little in this way and everyone sometimes does it. 0,72
20. Sometimes I say things that are untrue for the sake of gain. 0,72
21. Sometimes, in my relationships with people, I allow myself to “screw people over.” 0,72
22. At times, it is not easy even for me to distinguish where my words are true and where they are false. 0,71
23. There is more cheerful, optimistic roguishness in me than pigheaded adherence to principle. 0,70
24. It is foolish to admit my own guilt - when I am at fault, I can almost always turn the conversation toward the guilt of those around me. 0,61
25. If a person longs to hear some lie about themselves that would please them, I am readily prepared to say it. 0,58
26. Sometimes (at least once a week) I become confused in my memories - specifically, it can be difficult to determine whether something really happened to me at some time, whether I dreamed it, or whether it only now seems to me that it happened. 0,37 -----------------------------------—
27. I am a sincere and fair person; there is much less duplicity and greed in me than in others. -0,85
28. If I give my word, I will always keep it, regardless of the circumstances. -0,86
29. I regard loyalty and devotion as important virtues of mine; I do not approve of self-interested schemers. -0,87
30. Any lie is very unpleasant to me, and I myself certainly never lie for the sake of achieving any goals whatsoever. -0,87
31. My problem is that I am completely unable to “dissemble.” -0,90
32. I do not like using tricks in business; I prefer to reach honest agreements with partners on mutually beneficial terms. -0,93

Cluster 10

Ni - Often plays other people (Machiavellianism)

Cluster Ni No. 10
(averaging the profiles of 22 scale questions, 59803 respondent responses in total)

Contribution of traits to the variance of the property, percent:

Often plays other people (Machiavellianism)

1. Inventing and using traps on people is pleasant and fun. 0,93
2. I know how to be devious. 0,92
3. I like to play an inconspicuous but provocative role in a group, disrupting the equilibrium and making everyone around me work and bustle. 0,91
4. Another person is more often an object of manipulation for me than an equal individual and subject. 0,91
5. Inventing traps for people is interesting. 0,90
6. I like to “string along” members of the opposite sex. 0,90
7. I can easily and without difficulty take advantage of other people without troubling myself with moral considerations. 0,89
8. Sometimes I have amused myself by consciously exploiting another person’s kind attitude toward me. 0,86
9. Sometimes I deliberately and persistently “pester” a person through certain actions because it is interesting to observe their reaction. 0,84
10. If a member of my family, for the sake of a career, engages in intrigue and trips someone up, I will not condemn them. 0,81
11. I use flattery in order to succeed. 0,81
12. To make my criticism sharper and more convincing, I sometimes deliberately substitute or distort quotations from the words of the person I am criticizing. 0,79
13. Sometimes I manage, with just a few words, to deliberately provoke a quarrel between other people - either in real life or on the internet. 0,76
14. I often play with people and with my relationships with them without thinking about the feelings of those who are harmed. 0,73
15. In interactions with other people, I am quite comfortable with the inconspicuous position of a “gray cardinal” - I know how to wait unobtrusively until other people’s activity turns in a direction that is suitable and advantageous to me. 0,23 -----------------------------------—
16. When making decisions, I always carefully consider whether they might harm the interests of humanity, society, and other people. -0,84
17. When making decisions, I always involuntarily think about whether they might harm the interests of humanity, society, and other people. -0,85
18. The thought of the pain that I may cause myself and others always stops my rage. -0,86
19. I always treat other people’s rights with exactly the same respect as my own. -0,88
20. Sincere respect for “little” people is characteristic of me. -0,88
21. It is true that I never allow myself actions that are unfair to other people or that humiliate someone. -0,90
22. If I found a wallet containing 300 dollars and someone else’s documents, I would try to find the owner. -0,94

Cluster 12

Ni - Avoids definiteness, prefers indirect expression, “beating around the bush”.

Cluster Ni No. 12
(averaging the profiles of 6 scale questions, 8301 respondent responses in total)

Contribution of traits to the variance of the property, percent:

Avoids definiteness, prefers indirect expression, “beating around the bush.”

1. In conversation with people whom I want to influence, I rarely express myself directly; usually I even give advice through half-hints, as though “probing.” 0,90
2. When talking with someone about business matters, I most often deliberately express myself somewhat vaguely so that I have a route of retreat if necessary. 0,89
3. In company, I like to joke while playing with hints and the ambiguity of words. 0,72
4. When necessary, I know how to “punish” my partner with uncertainty or waiting (and I usually do this involuntarily, subconsciously - so recall your most recent quarrels more carefully and consider whether that is how it actually turned out). 0,72
5. When I speak, I have a habit of expressing myself indirectly, “beating around the bush,” without saying anything unambiguously and directly. 0,70 ---------------------------—
6. I am sickened by all lies and secrecy; if it were up to me, I would ban every secret and untruth in the world. -0,90

AND HERE ARE SOME Ni CLUSTERS PRIMARILY ASSOCIATED WITH A LOW LEVEL OF ACETYLCHOLINE ACTIVITY IN THE CNS.

These clusters (unlike those associated with the endorphin system) already clearly distinguish Ni from Se:

Cluster 16

Ni - Frequent episodes of muscle weakness, confusion, and dispersed attention (marker symptoms of cholinergic deficit)

Cluster Ni No. 16
(averaging the profiles of 15 scale questions, 33814 respondent responses in total)

Contribution of traits to the variance of the property, percent:

Frequent episodes of muscle weakness, confusion, and dispersed attention (symptoms of cholinergic deficit)

1. I fairly often have states involving muscle weakness, a certain confusion of consciousness, and dispersal of attention. 0,94
2. If I squat down several times in a row, I sometimes begin to see double. 0,87
3. I often feel a lack of clarity in my thoughts, brain fog. 0,86
4. Sometimes I lose my memory of what happened recently, yesterday, or the day before yesterday. 0,86
5. Too often I experience difficulty concentrating and a lazy diffuseness of attention. 0,84
6. I often have “slurred speech,” when it is difficult to pronounce every sound clearly without exception (as though my larynx and tongue obey me poorly). 0,83
7. Quite often I feel a lack of clarity in my thoughts - my attention is scattered, it is difficult to think through the meaning of phrases, my muscles are tired and sluggish, and overall I have a feeling of a certain inadequacy at that moment. 0,82
8. I often remember much better and more clearly what happened several years ago than what happened today. 0,77
9. I often find it difficult to climb stairs - not because of my heart and not because of shortness of breath, but specifically because my muscles tire quickly. 0,76
10. Often, it is as though something vague is constantly “spinning” in my head - fragments of words, thoughts, or something else; this spinning prevents me from concentrating, and in general it is intrusive, uncomfortable, and unpleasant. 0,68
11. I periodically have internal muscular pains in my arms or legs that are in no way associated with blows, strains, or injuries - that is, without preceding causes. 0,67
12. A multitude of details and small things tires me - I do not like switching my attention frequently. 0,65
13. It is difficult and tiring for me to switch my attention frequently between small details. 0,59 -------------------------------—
14. I usually breathe deeply, “with a full chest,” using a substantial proportion of my total lung capacity. -0,83
15. I am always maximally attentive to my surroundings and never mentally “drop out” of the situation. -0,85

Cluster 20

Ni - Derealization symptoms (serotonin deficit against a background of cholinergic weakness)

Cluster Ni No. 20
(averaging the profiles of 14 scale questions, 34789 respondent responses in total)

Contribution of traits to the variance of the property, percent:

Derealization symptoms (serotonin deficit against a background of cholinergic weakness)

1. Sometimes I have the strange feeling that everything around me is not really happening, but is make-believe, as in a theater. 0,98
2. Sometimes the surrounding space and objects seem strangely distorted to me. 0,96
3. At times I find it difficult to focus my visual attention on my surroundings: everything seems somehow strange, as though it is trembling, swaying, and flickering. 0,96
4. Sometimes I have a strong, strange sensation that my surroundings are somehow unreal, as if everything around me were deliberately “made” and make-believe, like scenery in a theater. 0,96
5. Sometimes familiar objects and people’s faces seem strange and distorted to me, somehow “not right.” 0,95
6. At times I experience disturbances in orientation as to my location - that is, I find it difficult to instantly remember and understand where I am at that moment (at home, at work, somewhere else, etc.). 0,92
7. People often seem like moving mannequins to me, while everything around me seems unreal. 0,91
8. At times I look at very familiar objects and am pursued by the feeling that they seem somehow new, unusual, not as they always are. 0,90
9. Sometimes ordinary household objects that I am looking at seem somehow detached and incomprehensible. 0,87
10. Sometimes I suddenly experience a sense of alienation and motionless deadness in my surroundings. 0,87
11. At times I suddenly experience a sense of alienation and motionless deadness in my surroundings. 0,87
12. Sometimes it seems to me that, over the course of about five minutes, time alternately speeds up and slows down - as though it pulsates, as though it moves unevenly. 0,87
13. Sometimes I have such amusing “lapses” in consciousness that I cannot even immediately figure out where I am. 0,86
14. It often happens to me that if an object is moved to another place, it begins to seem completely different, unlike what it was before. 0,73

Cluster 22

Ni - Depersonalization symptoms (one of the standard markers of high endorphin activity; the causes are the same as for derealization symptoms)

Cluster Ni No. 22
(averaging the profiles of 9 scale questions, 24071 respondent responses in total)

Contribution of traits to the variance of the property, percent:

Depersonalization symptoms

1. At times I look in the mirror, and my own face seems alien. 0,92
2. Sometimes I have had the strange sensation of not recognizing my own identity, as though I were another person, and in any case not the same person that I was ten seconds or ten hours earlier. 0,92
3. Sometimes there is a strange illusion as though I do not exist - the world around me that I perceive exists, but I am not in it. 0,88
4. Sometimes I feel something resembling a split personality - as though there is not one person in me, but two at once. 0,88
5. I have problems with the sense of my internal personal integrity. 0,88
6. At times I have had the strange feeling that I had lost the sense of the separateness, stability, and indivisible integrity of my human “I,” as though I were being spread across the surrounding world like butter on bread. 0,86
7. Sometimes my own body seems alien to me. 0,85
8. It has happened that, while lying in the bath, I temporarily lost the sense of my body and its boundaries. 0,79
9. I have often had doubts about who I am. 0,71

Cluster 21

Ni - Derealization symptoms accompanied by a sense of emotional impoverishment and insensitivity (dopamine deficit against a background of cholinergic weakness)

Cluster Ni No. 21
(averaging the profiles of 8 scale questions, 29114 respondent responses in total)

Contribution of traits to the variance of the property, percent:

Derealization symptoms accompanied by a sense of emotional impoverishment and insensitivity (dopamine deficit against a background of cholinergic weakness)

1. Sometimes everything that is happening - work, people, conversations - seems absolutely indifferent, as though colorless and tasteless, evoking no feelings or associations. 0,97
2. At times I catch myself feeling nothing - as though the whole world temporarily becomes flat and gray, devoid of any emotional significance whatsoever. 0,95
3. Sometimes I catch myself feeling nothing - as though the whole world temporarily becomes flat and gray, devoid of any emotional significance whatsoever. 0,95
4. Often it is as though I feel nothing (there is no emotional response to my surroundings), and at the same time I do not want to do anything, and do not even want to speak or communicate. 0,89
5. Sometimes I suddenly experience a sense of alienation and motionless deadness in my surroundings. 0,88
6. Sometimes it seems to me that the people currently present in the room are behaving unusually and may be plotting something against my interests. 0,60 ----------------------------—
7. My coworkers readily turn to me for help. -0,89
8. I prefer to have lunch and dinner in company and with conversation at the table rather than alone. -0,90

Cluster 26

Ni - Illusion of absence (its manifestation is associated with weakening of central acetylcholine transmission - it is most often observed in cases of delirium caused by depletion of acetylcholine in synapses)

Cluster Ni No. 26
(averaging the profiles of 3 scale questions, 5144 respondent responses in total)

Contribution of traits to the variance of the property, percent:

Ni - Illusion of absence (its manifestation is associated with weakening of central acetylcholine transmission - it is most often observed in cases of delirium caused by depletion of acetylcholine in synapses)

1. I can suggest to myself that I do not see some person or some object - and I really will not see them for a time, even if I am looking directly at them. 0,88
2. It has happened that an object is lying on the table in plain sight, while I search and search for it and cannot see it even when looking straight at it. 0,85
3. I have experienced this amusing psychological illusion: I look in the mirror, and for several seconds I do not see myself (other reflected objects around me are visible, but I am not, although I should be able to see myself) 0,79