SEE vs SLE

Markers that SEE mostly agrees with, while SLE mostly disagrees:

1. I diligently avoid being near people with colds - I am afraid of getting infected.
2. Legal work would be more interesting to me than scientific work.
3. Opposing the world is pointless, you can only adapt.
4. Prestige is a very important quality in the things I buy.
5. I think of myself first, then of others.
6. I often have accelerated heartbeats.
7. I would get great pleasure from sitting on a jury and giving participants grades.
8. I must have what is considered fashionable and prestigious - so I won’t use an old, already unprestigious thing in public.
9. It is true that I do not like and will not tolerate obeying a collective if I have a different opinion.
10. In most cases, I find good solutions.
11. In communication, I almost always look for the reasons that make people speak and act the way they do.
12. I love to express my point of view, to voice my opinion on various issues.
13. It is easy for me to communicate with people - they almost always seem nice to me, and I feel no fears or barriers.
14. Sometimes I amuse myself with flattery towards someone - without any particular purpose, just to observe how the person’s mood improves.
15. I love myself, and people love me.
16. I have a very flexible mind.
17. In the autumn-spring period, when there are many sick people on the streets, I very easily ‘catch’ a cold or flu.
18. I have delicate skin that is easily irritated.
19. I would be suited to building a large network marketing structure based on interpersonal relationships.
20. My imagination has a rather joyful than anxious shade.
21. I am optimistic.
22. Personal interests are always more important than any group interests.
23. Power should always be divided between several independent branches - concentrating it in one hand is unacceptable.
24. I often have hiccups (SEE: at least once a week or more often. SLE: many years ago or never at all).
25. I am always ready to change my choice if something better fits.
26. In the morning, I often irritably scold someone close to me.
27. I am an individualist, and I am interested exclusively in personal qualities in myself and others, not in belonging to a group.
28. I am charming, democratic, relaxed, and at ease in communication; I am polite, inspire trust, create an intimate and soulful atmosphere, but can also be sharp and cheeky.
29. I can joyfully accept everything that life gives.
30. I have a large, flexible, and varied set of techniques for starting an acquaintance.
31. I am more of an optimist than a pessimist.
32. Which motto is closer to you? - SEE: We are different, we are friendly. SLE: United people, common destiny.
33. Sometimes I rush too much, telling acquaintances about someone’s supposedly unworthy and dishonest behavior.
34. I often look in the mirror.
35. I am forgiving and easily let go of the past and irrelevant things.
36. I love looking at my photos and often do this.
37. I am better than others at making an impression and ‘putting on a show.’
38. I love to gossip.
39. Losing in emotional storms and conflicts with people usefully teaches, stimulates, and inspires me for new searches.
40. The main thing for me is to make a positive emotional impression on others.
41. I can flatter a person to achieve what I need.
42. I respect the individuality of others more than the ability to fit into a team as a useful member.
43. I am diplomatic, especially good at negotiating with people in an informal and intimate setting, without any pressure.
44. I have a talent for intrigue: I understand individuals well, can use them, and subtly guide their actions.
45. I often ‘whine’ if I want to get something from a partner.
46. Which statement is closer to you? - SEE: The people are strong with individual talents. SLE: The people are strong with unity.
47. I know how to persistently ask and choose the best moment to approach someone with a request.
48. I can flexibly manipulate relationships with others, reducing or increasing the distance according to the situation, as well as the ‘need’ for a business partner and their status in society.
49. Compared to me, other people understand nothing about human psychology.
50. Individuality is above all, I am alien to any hierarchy, groupness, and collectivism.
51. I quickly see all the psychological weaknesses of a new person.
52. If someone’s patriotic pride condemns the population to long material hardships, it’s crap, not patriotism.
53. I like starting something new.
54. Compared to other people, I am rather more boastful than more modest.
55. A high standard of living is more important than being a great military power.
56. I know I have a flaw - sometimes in business I fuss too much, getting distracted by things that are insignificant in terms of the desired goal.
57. I quickly see and understand how to interest a specific interlocutor.
58. I like to influence a partner’s psyche, improving it with my positive suggestions.
59. I am a very good peacemaker.
60. I am sensitive to others’ states and can smooth over sharp corners in communication.
61. For most countries, a female leader is better than a male leader.
62. I can calmly and flexibly, ethically influence people without pressure.
63. I love to praise, easily find something encouraging and optimistic in everything.
64. I am very perceptive.
65. I love talking or listening about who loves whom, how they love, and why.
66. I constantly try to cheer up and please people, to say and hear something pleasant from them.
67. I have the gift of empathy, I can perfectly calm another person, relieve their emotional tension.

Markers that SLE mostly agrees with, while SEE mostly disagrees:

1. I must admit, I am secretive, stubborn, and inflexible in relationships; I dislike uninvited guests and can’t entertain them; I persistently maintain the relationship system I am used to.
2. My speech is logically clear but somewhat dry, with many clarifying words like prepositions, conjunctions, particles, and introductory phrases.
3. I easily understand complex mechanisms.
4. I am more of a skeptic expecting future troubles than a romantic expecting future successes.
5. I don’t always understand why my interlocutor gets offended during a conversation.
6. My assessments of events are usually unequivocal and leave no room for doubt.
7. I would like military service.
8. The world of any individual is just a part of the general fate of the state and nothing more.
9. Even if I want to, it is difficult for me to speak in long, fluent sentences, and to understand someone else’s fluent speech as well.
10. I have not had hiccups in the past couple of years (SLE: definitely not. SEE: often, at least once a month).
11. People’s actions more often cause me disapproval than approval.
12. A person should conform to the opinion of the majority.
13. I often lack sensitivity and tact in relationships with people.
14. Proper authority should be built ‘top-down,’ and talk about democracy is for the weak.
15. I feel embarrassed and out of place if suddenly in the spotlight.
16. In public life, the people should be cultivated in adherence to a single ideology.
17. Everything physical should be strictly controlled - I understand those who lead a consistently ascetic lifestyle.
18. I often feel indifferent, with a lack of strong desires or interest in anything.
19. It is true that I am not an anxious person.
20. The interests of the group should always come before the interests of the individual.
21. I get irritated if someone approaches me while I’m working.
22. Autocratic rule is better than any democracy.
23. Fear of war or constant appeals for friendship with other states is a path to defeat and betrayal.
24. I am not a shy person, but I am helpless in building my relationships with people - I am easily caught on the hook.
25. My friends and family would say that I adhere to traditional values.
26. In public, I am usually noticeably dry and can even be somewhat rough.
27. I am very sympathetic to the customs of those peoples where the interests of the clan and the opinion of the elders are law for everyone.
28. Public interests have always concerned me more than personal ones.
29. In a team where hierarchical relationships are developed, I feel - SLE: Comfortable. SEE: Uncomfortable.
30. I find it absolutely normal and even right that Soviet students were sent to agricultural work for a week in September.
31. I do not enjoy favorite foods.
32. I am more committed to common interests than personal ones.
33. I am always surprised how some people try to be friends ‘with both ours and yours’ - no, you are either with us or with THEM - but then you are against us.
34. I keep my word, even if it is not profitable for me.
35. Sympathizing with a competing country or a competing employer is already betrayal.
36. A person is not a patriot if they allow or, even more, help to criticize their state to foreigners.
37. I can easily remember a phone number for a minute before writing it down.
38. Stalin had more merits than faults.
39. I believe that a person cannot live normally and happily without realizing and feeling themselves as part of a higher will.
40. Customs and traditions must be preserved and maintained.
41. For most countries, a ruling king is better than a ruling queen.
42. I almost always feel like part of a clan or tribe, not an individual.
43. I love to mentally explore the springs of long-past historical events, to get to the most probable versions of those events and their true mechanisms.
44. By the middle of a lesson or lecture, my attention is usually more focused than at the beginning.
45. If a scientist discovers something, their discovery - SLE: Partly belongs to the entire nation, so the scientist has no right to give their discovery ‘to the side.’ SEE: Belongs only to them.
46. I am always ready to help discreetly and without self-promotion.
47. I have a talent for popularizing - I love and can ‘play’ with complex logical things, showing them from different angles.
48. I consider loyalty and devotion my important virtues and do not approve of cunning schemers.
49. I am indifferent to fashion and often wear whatever.
50. I can be content with the bare minimum in everyday life for a long time.
51. I do not recognize jewelry; in any case, I am quite indifferent to them.
52. Negative emotions break out more often than positive ones.
53. I support the mass promotion of scientific knowledge and teaching the broad masses of people to think independently.
54. I love difficult and dangerous practical tasks that require will, pressure, logic, determination, and courage.
55. I am one of those who are, in principle, capable of self-sacrifice for an idea or the common good.
56. Regarding educational work in schools, I support the rule of collective responsibility.
57. I often feel sad.
58. I more often feel thirsty, angry, and dissatisfied than content and peacefully calm, as if having received my due.
59. I am not interested in theoretical discussions.
60. I have well-developed peripheral vision - I always notice any movement at the edge of my visual field.
61. In ancient times, my ideal role would have been a scout searching for new wells or oases in the desert.
62. Sometimes I feel that my hands, feet, and whole body are heavy, and my face is frozen and petrified, and I even have to force myself to breathe.
63. I can quite imagine myself performing some deadly military feat (and sometimes I have imagined this in my dreams) - like pilots ramming their planes, or Japanese kamikaze pilots, or feat of covering an enemy machine gun with body.
64. Sometimes I deliberately provoke people to disrespect me - I don’t care about their respect.
65. In my leisure time, my imagination is always altruistic; it very rarely deals with personal interests and problems, much more often with others’ or global ones.
66. Sometimes I feel like people are laughing at me behind my back.
67. I am more often dissatisfied or disappointed with the attitude of others towards me.