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Frequently Asked Questions Socionics and Psychology Socionics: Basic Concepts What is a Socionic Profile?

Everything Unknown and Little-Known About the Eight Functions of the Psyche. Part I: Calculation of Functions, Quantitative Values of All Functions in a Psychotype, Substantive Content of Functions Final Recalculation of the Database of Past Socionic Data – Scientific Information on the Work Carried Out How is proximity to each of the 16 TIMs measured in Talanov´s questionnaires? How V. Talanov’s Diagnostic Questionnaires Are Made

Controls and Calibration

How Is the Subject’s Distance From the Psychological Center of the Population Measured How Often and in Which Direction Do People Make Mistakes When Declaring Their Sociotype? Lie Scales and Inflated Self-Assessment On the “S” Index of Questionnaires On the Social Normativity and Non-Normativity of Responses to Questionnaire Items Social Normativity Index Socionic Component of the Normativity of Responses to Any Questionnaire Items Type Profiles for Auxiliary Indicators Obtained in Socionic Questionnaires What Personality Factors Lead to a Decrease in the Height of the Raw Type Profile Who More Often Answers “Like Everyone Else”, That Is, Like a Person Who, Based on Their Responses, Is Averaged Equally Among All 16 Psychotypes?

Reliability and Validity

Experimental Study of the Validity of Sociodiagnostic Methods Study of the Relationship Between Achievement Test Results and the Socionic Personality Profile Study of the Reliability of Questionnaire-Based Diagnosis of Socionic Variables Test-Retest Reliability Obtained During Repeat Diagnosis Using Questionnaires With Other Diagnostic Questions Validity of V. L. Talanov’s Psychodiagnostic Questionnaires in Light of the Empirically Identified Semantic Content of Socionic Functions of the Psyche

Central Meanings of Socionic Traits

Extraversion – Introversion

Biochemical Basis of Extraversion Characteristics of 24 Clusters of Socionic Extraversion-Introversion Main Clusters of Extraversion Personality Traits Associated with the Extraversion-Introversion Dichotomy

Irrationality – Rationality

Detailed Cluster Structure, Cognitive and Physiological Mechanisms of the “Irrationals-Rationals” Trait Main Clusters of Irrationality Personality Traits Associated with the Rational-Irrational Dichotomy Secrets of Nality

Static – Dynamic

Personality Traits Associated with the Static–Dynamic Dichotomy Substantive Content of 'Static-Dynamic'

Intuition – Sensorics

A Person Without Sensorics and a Person Without Intuition Personality Traits Associated with the Intuition-Sensorics Dichotomy Sensorics and Evolution Structure of the Intuition-Sensing Trait and Its Hypothetical Cognitive Mechanisms Study of the Relationship Between Intuitive and Sensory Abilities What Is Intuition? Black Intuition and Novelty Структура признака «интуиты-сенсорики» и его гипотетические когнитивные механизмы

Peripheral – Central

Clusters of Judiciousness - Decisiveness Main Clusters of Judiciousness Personality Traits Associated with the Judiciousness-Decisiveness Dichotomy Psychological Properties Closely Related to Judiciousness-Decisiveness Socionic Profiles of CNS Dopamine Activity. Unraveling the Secrets of the Behavior of the «Decisive». The Portrayal of Central and Peripheral Quadras in Artistic Creation The World of Peripheral and Central Quadras - One and the Same, Yet Different

Tactics – Strategy

Tactics-Strategy

Carelessness – Foresight

Empirical Clusters of 'Carelessness-Foresight'

Logic – Ethics

All Types of Empathy - Summary Data Personality Traits Associated with the Logic-Ethics Dichotomy Pure Logic and Pure Ethics – What Is the Relationship Between Them? Socionic Projections of the BES Questionnaire Scale Intended for Measuring Two Components of Empathy Study of the Relationship Between Logical and Ethical-Emotional Abilities

Ascending – Descending

Cheerfulness-Seriousness Comparative Description of the Poles of the Socionic Dichotomy "Merriness-Seriousness" Merry - Serious (“Ascending - Descending”) On Merry and Serious Values Personality Traits Associated with the Merry-Serious Dichotomy Why Are Ti and Fe "Merry" Functions, and Te and Fi "Serious" Functions?

Constructivism – Emotivism

Constructivism - Emotivism

Yielding – Obstinate

Semantic clusters of 'Yielding-Obstinate'

Questim – Declatim

All About Questimity Clusters of Questimity Declatimity and Questimity - Social Convergence or Divergence Definition of Questimity Democrats vs Questims, Aristocrats vs Declatims Fixation on Unique Properties of Objects – Is It Really Questimity? Following the Trail of Questimity On the Differences Between Negativism and Questimity, Positivism and Declatimity Psychological Portrait (Semantic Content) of the Poles of the Socionic Trait “Questim–Declatim” - Results of an Experimental Study Questims and Declatims in Love: Is Mutual Understanding Possible? Talking About Questimity

Democracy – Aristocracy

Clusters of Democracy Democracy - Aristocracy Democratism-Aristocratism (Individualism-Collectivism, Egalitarianism-Elitism) in Light of the Mechanisms of Evolutionary Selection Democrats vs Questims, Aristocrats vs Declatims

Positivism – Negativism

List of Marker Questions for Negativism and Positivism Main Clusters of Negativism-Positivism On the Differences Between Negativism and Questimity, Positivism and Declatimity Positivism Is Not Optimism, and Negativism Is Not Pessimism Secrets of Socionic Negativism

Process – Result

The Subtle Structure of 'Process-Result'

Derivation of the Meanings of the Basic Functions Generalized portraits of the 12 socionic functions of the psyche (semantics of functions) On the Semantics of the Eight Socionic Functions in Their Program and Creative Positions Questim–Declatim Functions as Psychological Attitudes Semantic Clusters of Socionic Functions Semantic Content of Socionic Ethical and Logical Functions Semantic Content of Socionic Questim-Declatim Functions The 24 Functions of Socionics - Generalization Validity of V. L. Talanov’s Psychodiagnostic Questionnaires in Light of the Empirically Identified Semantic Content of Socionic Functions of the Psyche

About Some Little-Known Clusters of White Intuition Is White Intuition Interested in History and Evolution? Main Difference Between Ne and Ni Neuroscience of White Intuition Ni - Everything Unknown and Little-Known About the Eight Functions of the Psyche Ni, intuition of time (imagination of crisis) What is Ni? (analysis of Talanov's questionnaires statistics) What is White Intuition? A Scientific Perspective White Intuition as Imagination of Damage

Main Difference Between Ne and Ni Ne - Everything Unknown and Little-Known About the Eight Functions of the Psyche Ne - the main 'children's' function (analysis of Talanov's questionnaires statistics) Ne, intuition of possibilities (imagination of alternatives) Some Clusters of Scientific Thinking Tending Toward Intuition of Possibilities (Ne)

Clusters of White Sensorics Detailed Study of the Semantic Clusters of White Sensorics (the Socionic Function Si, “Sensing of Sensations”) Si - Everything Unknown and Little-Known About the Eight Functions of the Psyche Si - the function of basic survival here and now (analysis of Talanov's questionnaires statistics) Si, sensorics of sensations (sense of comfort)

Detailed Study of the Semantic Clusters of Black Sensorics (Socionic Function Se, “Force Sensing”) Properties generated by the interaction between Di and Se Se - Everything Unknown and Little-Known About the Eight Functions of the Psyche Se - function of individual competitive advantage (analysis of Talanov's questionnaires statistics) Se, sensorics of power (sense of dominance)

Base and Creative Ti Clusters of Scientific Thinking Tending Toward White Logic (Ti) Properties of White Logic and Their Genesis Semantic Content of Ti Ti - Everything Unknown and Little-Known About the Eight Functions of the Psyche Ti - legislators function (analysis of Talanov's questionnaires statistics) Ti, structural logic (calculation of laws)

Base and Creative Te Semantic Content of Te Te - 'serious business people' function (analysis of Talanov's questionnaires statistics) Te - Everything Unknown and Little-Known About the Eight Functions of the Psyche Te, business logic (calculation of benefit)

Base and Creative Fi Fe vs Fi Fi - Everything Unknown and Little-Known About the Eight Functions of the Psyche Fi, ethics of relations (suggestion of attitude) Main Manifestations of Creative Fe and Fi Main mechanisms and manifestations of white ethics Questionnaire Items Differentiating Fi and Fe Semantic Content of Fi White Ethics, White Sensorics – What Do They Have In Common at the Biological Level?

Base and Creative Fe Fe - Everything unknown and little-known about the eight functions of the psyche Fe - function of inducing emotional resonance (analysis of Talanov's questionnaire statistics) Fe vs Fi Fe, ethics of emotions (suggestion of attraction) Main Manifestations of Creative Fe and Fi Questionnaire Items Differentiating Fi and Fe Semantic Content of Fe Why is black ethics a pack function (and white ethics not)? Why Is Fe a Dynamic Function? And why is Fe correlated with hearing, and Ti with vision?

Base and Creative Qi On the Manifestations of Qi and Di Qi, ‘white’ questimity (isolation of independence) Semantic Content of Qi White Questimity - A Refined Set of Properties Associated With the Function White Questimity (Qi)

Base and Creative Qe Black Questimity - An Updated List of Properties (And Our Reflections on the Topic and Related Matters) More on Black Questimity On the Manifestations of Qe and De Qe and Di - Difference and commonality Qe, ‘black’ questimity (isolation of superiority) Semantic Content of Qe

29 Markers of Strong Differences Between Di and Qi Base and Creative Di Di, 'white' declatimity (acceptance of subordination) On the Manifestations of Qi and Di On White Declatimity and More Properties generated by the interaction between Di and Se Qe and Di - Difference and commonality Semantic Content of Di

Base and Creative De Black Declatimity (De) De, ‘black’ declatimity (acceptance of cooperation) On the manifestations of Qe and De Semantic Content of De

Function Combinations

All Possible Combinations of Irrational Functions With Questim–Declatim Ones All Possible Combinations of Irrational Functions With Rational Ones All Possible Combinations of Rational Functions With Questim–Declatim Ones De + Se Di + Se Ne + De Ne + Qe Ni + De Ni + Di Ni + Fi Ni + Qe Ni + Qi Ni + Ti Qe + Se Qi + Se Se + Fe Se + Ne Si + De Si + Di Si + Fi Si + Ni Si + Qe Si + Qi Si + Ti Te + Di Te + Qi Ti + De Ti + Qe

EIE – Ethical Intuitive Extrovert EII – Ethical Intuitive Introvert ESE – Ethical Sensory Extrovert ESI – Ethical Sensory Introvert IEE – Intuitive Ethical Extrovert IEI – Intuitive Ethical Introvert ILE – Intuitive Logical Extrovert ILI - Intuitive Logical Introvert LIE – Logical Intuitive Extrovert LII – Logical Intuitive Introvert LSE – Logical Sensory Extrovert LSI – Logical Sensory Introvert SEE – Sensory Ethical Extrovert SEI – Sensory Ethical Introvert SLE – Sensory Logical Extrovert SLI – Sensory Logical Introvert

Differential Diagnosis

EIE vs EII EIE vs IEI EIE vs ILE EIE vs LIE EII vs ESE EII vs IEI EII vs LII EII vs LSE EII vs SEI ESE vs EIE ESI vs EII ESI vs SLI IEE vs EIE IEE vs EII IEE vs ILE IEI vs IEE IEI vs LIE IEI vs LII ILE vs LIE ILE vs LII ILE vs SLE ILI vs EIE ILI vs ESI ILI vs IEI ILI vs ILE ILI vs LIE ILI vs LII ILI vs SEI ILI vs SLI LII vs LIE LSE vs ESE LSE vs LIE LSE vs LSI LSE vs SLI LSI vs ESI LSI vs LII LSI vs SLI SEE vs EIE SEE vs ESI SEE vs IEE SEE vs ILI SEE vs LIE SEE vs SLE SEI vs ESI SEI vs IEI SEI vs SLI SLE vs LIE SLE vs LSE SLE vs LSI SLI vs LII

Complete Psychological Portraits (2011 Archive)

Complete Psychological Portrait of the Ethical-Intuitive Extravert (EIE) — Results of an Experimental Study Complete Psychological Portrait of the Ethical-Intuitive Introvert (EII) — Results of an Experimental Study Complete Psychological Portrait of the Ethical-Sensory Extravert (ESE) — Results of an Experimental Study Complete Psychological Portrait of the Ethical-Sensory Introvert (ESI) — Results of an Experimental Study Complete Psychological Portrait of the Intuitive Ethical Introvert (IEI) — Results of an Experimental Study Complete Psychological Portrait of the Intuitive-Ethical Extravert (IEE) — Results of an Experimental Study Complete Psychological Portrait of the Intuitive-Logical Extravert (ILE) — Results of an Experimental Study Complete Psychological Portrait of the Intuitive-Logical Introvert (ILI) — Results of an Experimental Study Complete Psychological Portrait of the Logical-Intuitive Extravert (LIE) — Results of an Experimental Study Complete Psychological Portrait of the Logical-Intuitive Introvert (LII) — Results of an Experimental Study Complete Psychological Portrait of the Logical-Sensory Extravert (LSE) — Results of an Experimental Study Complete Psychological Portrait of the Logical-Sensory Introvert (LSI) — Results of an Experimental Study Complete Psychological Portrait of the Sensory Ethical Extrovert (SEE) — Results of an Experimental Study Complete Psychological Portrait of the Sensory Ethical Introvert (SEI) — Results of an Experimental Study Complete Psychological Portrait of the Sensory-Logical Extravert (SLE) — Results of an Experimental Study Complete Psychological Portrait of the Sensory-Logical Introvert (SLI) — Results of an Experimental Study

A More Accurate Table of Statistics on Intertype Relations Common Psychological Properties and Values in Dual Pairs of Psychotypes. Common Psychological Properties and Values in the Dual Pair of Psychotypes SEE and ILI. Comparison of Different Methods of ITR Diagnosis When Constructing Statistics on Intertype Relations. Correlations of Socionic and Style-Related Questionnaire Indicators Between Members of Pairs Frequency of Intertype Relations Depending on Three Methods of Their Calculation Frequency of Intertype Relations in Different Samples Interim Results of the First Large-Scale Experiment in History on the Study of Socionic Intertype Relations Large Experiment to Test Intertype Relations Latest Experimental Statistics on the Intertype Relations of Questionnaire Respondents (as of 31.10.2020) On Diagnosing Intertype Relations On the Interrelationship Between the Origin of Sex, Genetic Diversity, and Psychotypes On the Meaning and Goals of Duality On the Reliability of Determining Intertype Relations Using Questionnaires Shared Psychological Properties and Values in the Dual Pair of Psychotypes ESI and LIE Statistics of Intertype Relations in Romantic Couples as a Function of Relationship Duration Summary Statistics of Dominant Intertype Relations in Romantic and Friendship Pairs (Experiments With Questionnaires 065-096 in 2019-2021)

Small Groups Small Groups ("Socionics in Pictures")

Conflicting Pairs

EIE+SLI ESE+ILI IEE+LSI ILE+ESI LSE+IEI SEE+LII SLE+EII

EII+LSE ESI+LIE IEE+SLI ILE+SEI LII+ESE LSI+EIE SEE+ILI SLE+IEI

Psychoanalytic Roles

Aggressor Caring Infantile Victim

Beta Values Gamma Values General Properties and Values of the Psychotypes of the Fourth Quadra Properties of Quadras, Anti-Quadras, and Their Combinations Quadra Values Values of the First Quadra

Basis of Socionic Functions and Aspects from the Perspective of Ethology and Evolutionary Psychology Black Sensorics Increases Even in Hares When Testosterone Goes off the Scale. Clusters and Socionic Profiles of Oxytocin Experimental Study of Socionic Profiles of Elevated Noradrenergic Activity Factors in the Formation of the Socionic Personality Type and Their Interaction Handwriting Legibility-Clumsiness, Noradrenaline, and Socionics Hormonal, Neural, and Social Mechanisms of Social Status and Dominance (Literature Review) Internal Information Metabolism and the Physical Mechanisms of Its Functioning Large Integral Scale of Low Prolactin Markers Left-Right Dominance of the Neocortical Hemispheres, Inarticulateness as a Marker of Its Socionic Profiles, Comparison With Motor Tests of Hemispheric Dominance, and, as a Consequence, Properties of the Psyche Predominantly Associated With the Left and Right Neocortex Markers of Reduced Serotonergic Activity Neurophysiological Nature of Function Dimensionality Norepinephrine and the Mystery of Orthostatic Crises On Relishing Ugliness, Provoking Pain and Fear, and Endorphin Releases On the Influence of Serotonin on Social Behavior (Literature Review) On the Leading Role of Prolactin in Masochism Oxytocin and the Psyche. Summary of Data. Positivism/Negativism, Questimity/Declatimity and Functional Asymmetry of the Brain Psychological Profiles of Different Alleles of the ABCC11 Gene Socionic Profiles of CNS Dopamine Activity. Unraveling the Secrets of the Behavior of the «Decisive». Socionic Profiles of Vasopressin The Dark Side of Serotonin The Pilomotor Reflex The Role of Histamine in Socionic Type Formation Typical EEG Dependences on Psychotype According to MBTI Unified Predictive Scale of Norepinephrine Activity Vasopressin and Declatimity What Is Neurosocionics and Why Is It Needed? Which Sociotypes Exhibit Symptoms of Cholinergic Deficit? Why Socionics Is Necessary and Could Be Very Useful for Modern Neuroscience

A Brief Exposition of Model «T»: A Physiological Model of Information Metabolism in the Human Psyche Analysis of the Socionic Causes of Xenophobia Are Psychological Types Quantized? Testing Population Density at the Boundaries Between the 16 "Standard" Psychotypes. Introduction of 4 New Functions of the Psyche. Can Functions Be Trained? Characteristics of Sociotypes in Sex and Marriage Content and Physiological Interpretation of the Socionic Traits “Constructivism-Emotivism”, “Tactics-Strategy”, “Yielding-Obstinate”, and “Carefree-Farsighted” Correlations of Functions of the Psyche and Poles of Socionic Traits With the Logarithm of Respondents’ Age (N=46740 Respondents) Correlations of Individual Abilities and Their Combinations With Socionic Traits Differences Between SLE and LSE Do Sensing and Intuition, and Logic and Ethics, Really Form Antagonistic Dichotomies? Early Childhood Upbringing Influences Future Psychotype Ecological Model of the Socion Eight Clusters of Radical (Authoritarian) Statism Examples of “Borderline” Intertype Accentuations Family values Functions of the Psyche and Age How Does the Smell of Other People Affect Our Attraction to Them? Ideological Differences and Psychological Types of People In the Footsteps of Narcissism In the Footsteps of Sociopathy Linear Correlation Between Intuitive and Sensing, Logical and Ethical Abilities, Measured in Their Purest Form Magnitude and Distribution of Accentuations in the Population. A Study of the Boundaries Between Psychotypes and the Population Distribution of the Values of Socionic Functions and Traits Memory clusters and their socionic profiles On Different Types of Irritability On Other Properties of LSI On Sex Differences in Socionic Indicators On the Connection Between Intergroup Aggression and Socionic Parameters On the Mysteries of Sadism, Masochism, and Sadomasochism Political Troubles and Merits of Our Time in Their Projection onto Socionics Scale Reflecting Average Differences Between Women and Men Self-Confidence in One´s Actions, or Doubts and Hesitation When Making a Decision? Socionic Projections. Sex Differences in Socionic Indicators Sketches for a General Socionic Model (Search for Hidden Patterns in the Structure of Socionic Theory) Socionic Profiles of Some Aspects of Sexual Behavior Socionic Profiles of the Human Pack Instinct and “Unity” Sociotypes and Graphological Features of Handwriting Test of the Relationship Between Traits and Their Reinin Images Victimity Wisdom of Crowds, Conformity, Nonconformity, Dopamine and Socionics

Socionics and Other Personality Models

Afanasyev Typology (Psychosophy) - The Latest Large Experimental Study Correlations of Socionic Indicators With the Scales of the Cattell Questionnaire Interrelationship of Socionics, Functional Ensemble of Temperament (FET), and Big Five Indicators On How V. L. Talanov’s Questionnaires Measure Proximity to Each of the Psychosophy Types Relationship of Socionic Traits to Factors of Modern Personality Models (HEXACO) Socionics and Cattell Socionics and Personality Disorders Socionics and the RF-15 Lexical Personality Model Socionics vs Psychosophy Table of Coefficients of Correlation Between Socionic and Psychosophy Types

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