Traits from the Perspective of Behavioral Psychology

Extraversion - behavior whose aim is to change the external environment in accordance with the subject’s needs; associated with an increase in the number of the subject’s conscious actions (external activity)

Introversion - behavior whose aim is the subject’s internal restructuring in the process of adaptation to the external environment; associated with an improvement in the quality of the subject’s activity

Logic - behavior whose aim is a result that can be evaluated objectively, independently of the observer’s personality characteristics

Ethics - behavior whose aim is to change someone’s subjective perception of a situation

Sensing - behavior whose aim is the acquisition, processing, accumulation, and consumption of known material resources

Intuition - behavior whose aim is the search for, processing, and preservation of information that has no concrete material equivalent (associated with probabilistic rather than certain phenomena)

Rationality - behavior is determined and directed by pre-established orientations of consciousness that are social in nature; characterized by directedness, consistency, predictability, and priority given to preserving social ties

Irrationality - behavior is determined and directed by spontaneous instinctive reactions; characterized by greater naturalness and flexibility, a more chaotic and unpredictable character, and priority given to individual survival

Decisiveness (a value of the central quadras) - behavior associated with defending one’s interests in competitive struggle; characterized by a higher level of mobilization, a hostile attitude toward one’s surroundings, a desire for power, an orientation toward exploiting others’ labor and appropriating the fruits of that labor, and foresight regarding the actions of potential opponents; associated with acknowledging one’s motivations as egoistic

Judiciousness (a value of the peripheral quadras) - behavior associated with satisfying one’s interests through productive labor and mutual assistance; characterized by an absence of conflict, goodwill toward one’s surroundings, openness in communication, on average a lower level of material aspirations, and avoidance of participation in highly competitive groups; associated with defining one’s motivations as altruistic

The remaining traits scarcely manifest themselves through overt features of behavior, but (at least some of them) participate in shaping its underlying programs:

Merriness (subjectivism, a value of the ascending quadras) - thinking in terms of distant goals and extensive development; a striving to satisfy one’s natural needs in full and in an undistorted form and to extend one’s subjective worldview (principles of life that correspond as closely as possible to the subject’s true essence) to an unlimited circle of new participants, including a willingness to sacrifice one’s reputation (social approval of one’s behavior) for this purpose

Seriousness (objectivism, a value of the descending quadras) - thinking in terms of near-term goals and optimizing one’s activity, including understanding one’s worldview as an established tradition, a reflection of objective local characteristics; a striving for social success (reputational and financial) within one’s immediate social environment and according to its rules, including by suppressing or distorting the fulfillment of one’s genuine natural needs

Collectivism (a value of the aristocratic quadras) - thinking in terms of group survival (priority given to questions of subordination, finding one’s place in the group, and one’s attitude toward the group’s opinion)

Individualism (a value of the democratic quadras) - thinking in terms of individual survival (priority given to questions of independence, finding oneself as an integrated personality, and developing one’s personal view of the world)

Statics - discreteness in the perception of space and time, including a conception of the world as a multitude of separate subjects and objects, with their own separate interests and separate destinies. Statics is associated with better awareness of stable individual interests and characteristics - one’s own and those of others

Dynamics - continuity in the perception of space and time, including a conception of shared interests and the inseparability of the destinies of different subjects and objects. Dynamics is associated with the ability to perceive current needs “inductively” - one’s own and those of others

Questimity - seeking and generating deviations from the norm (with the aim of gaining access to alternative useful resources or providing a safeguard against trouble); a tendency to disagree with the consensus opinion of the majority, creativity through increasing complexity (seeking and creating new details)

Declatimity - a striving for an optimal norm (supporting the existing point of consensus or seeking a new one), decision-making through simplification (eliminating unnecessary, redundant details)

Positivism - seeing merits, focusing on the healthy manifestations of something and on achieving/creating them, a tendency toward euphoria of mood

Negativism - seeing shortcomings, focusing on the unhealthy manifestations of something and on avoiding/eliminating them, a tendency toward depressiveness

Rightwardness - the goals of activity and motivations are associated with the personality: a striving for self-development and self-improvement, and for this purpose - the consumption of resources from the social environment of one’s group

Leftwardness - the goals of activity and motivations lie outside the personality: a striving to improve the surrounding world and society, and for this purpose - supplying the social environment of one’s group with resources