In differential psychology, the goal is to deduce as much as possible about a person's motivations, behavior, values, physiology, relationship compatibility, and potential success in various professional fields using minimal information. What, in essence, resembles the aspirations of a data-driven world.

One of the starting points of the information society began with people hiding information from others. When you simply hide something in a place unknown to someone else, there is always a chance that the place will be discovered, and your secrets will be revealed. Moreover, if you take no additional measures, you might not even know that someone else has uncovered your secrets. To prevent such situations, you must either have no secrets at all or make your secrets such that when someone else learns them, they gain no advantage. This is the foundation of all security in the world.

Today, the most critical asset is information, how it is formed, how it flows, how it spreads. And the person who understands how information works, and who controls it is effectively the gray cardinal of society.

At the core of theories about how information is structured in the world, there's a principle: the more you can convey using fewer words, the more valuable it becomes. If we equate words to bits, we can say that the fewer bits you use to express an idea, the greater its value. This allows you to store it in a smaller safe compared to having a massive amount of information. If there's a body of information and I can devise a better way to compress it than you can, I have the advantage — my algorithm will have lower complexity. And the drive to reduce algorithmic complexity of information is a fundamental goal in many fields of the information society.

If we add biological limits, and consider the idea that, due to human physiology and the limitations of the current state of brain development, there is a physiological limit to the number of stable social connections a person can maintain , the emergence of a direction like socionics as a discipline in the information society, in one form or another, was inevitable — as a need to represent everything in the form of maximally compact structures, including human psyche, relationships, bio-societal dynamics, and others. There are other factors driving this as well as we need to systematize and pass on knowledge, and also purely pragmatic-rational dimension – you don't start interacting with every new person by learning a new language from scratch. You already have some set of standardized tools and concepts that have been learned in advance, which help you interact more efficiently with the world and people.

In socionics (especially true for the approach we consider), instead of studying each of the 8 billion individuals separately, we distill those to the optimal cognitive number limit, by finding general patterns and correlations on different levels of personalities and packing everything into a structured system. Standard socionics started with 16 discrete types, which were qualitatively developed over several decades through the efforts and observations of many people and represented distinct and broad personality archetypes (which are still being refined today). This foundation allowed for further advancement.

In recent times, a significant problem in pop psychology, of which classic socionics is a part, has been the growing number of branches and schools that continue to multiply and diverge from each other, despite attempting to represent almost the same framework for understanding of the same subject. This created a demand for adopting an approach and methodology that would prevent moving in cycles, and instead use all these branches in a more constructive way—as leverage and fuel for the benefit of a new meta-system.

By using modern technology and statistical methods, it has become possible to quantitatively extract 16 consistent and denoised intersections of global-type images, allowing for more scientific and mathematical folding and analysis.

The essence of scientific statistical approach in socionics was pioneered by works of Viktor Talanov, who laid the foundation for it. And which is the important part in this application.

The good part is that the approach, while giving clarity and simplicity on top of high scientific rigor, still does not go against any of the existing (or upcoming) alternative developments in this field. Additionally, allowing the construction of new meta-frameworks on top of it.

Compared to theories of personality that address philosophical questions of value and the subjective complexities of human existence, the biological and psychometric approaches rely more heavily on scientific methods. These methods include experiments, precise measurement, and the use of reliable and valid tools to quantify personality and psychological characteristics, yielding evidence-based findings, helping fill gaps in traditional psychology, which is criticized—often with good reason—for its lack of scientific character and the conceptual clarity of a unified science. The goal is to develop measurements in psychology that are both reliable (produces consistent results across multiple instances) and valid (ensures that the measurement truly assesses what it claims to measure).

The overarching aim of scientific inquiry is to understand, predict, and control phenomena. Much of what we know about personality and psyche from a scientific standpoint has developed in a largely atheoretical manner. Rather than emerging from a preexisting theoretical model, most scientific understanding of this area and insights have arisen from statistically rigorous observations and empirical findings.

All existing models in classic socionics are conditional schemes that try to integrate functions into a cohesive system. However, none of them has ever been proven, nor has any been experimentally verified or validated through research. And it's not very realistic to assume that in such purely hypothetical way any model can be developed to an adequate level of accuracy. Therefore, a more rational approach might be to selectively retain only the parts that work, and then build scientific models based on empirical data, experiments, and observations.

This is how modern socionics can operate and be more robust — not on the wheels of artificially constructed speculative models, but through its ability to predict new experimental facts and the objective world.

Until more fundamental patterns emerge, dichotomies serve as a clear, unambiguous, and most convenient component of this (meta-) system, from which we can derive everything else, including functions, types, small groups — in the most straightforward way. Which also aligns closely with modern scientific frameworks, and with more fundamental ideas, such as potential difference and homeostasis.

As of the beginning of 2025, the website provided one of the most accurate, efficient and differentiated personality measurement instrument available on the internet in the field of personality and differential psychology.

The application has a fairly simple appearance, which might unintentionally give users the impression that it's just as simple on the inside. Also because it is:

- free,

- completely transparent,

- requiring no registration,

- starting the test takes just 1 second and a single button click, with no limits, for anyone.

However, thanks to modern technologies, it's possible to create simple and functional interfaces that pack considerable hidden complexity internally.

The questions themselves are public access. The initial bulk of them was derived from Talanov's questionnaires. Then consequently filtered and supplemented to define a set of phrases that most comprehensively and concisely captures the variation in human personality, and processed in other ways, then on top of them testing logic and other parts were implemented.

In the interval between the user pressing the purple button and the start of the actual test, the generation process takes place. It iterates through approximately 4–8 million question combinations to select the set that best meets the necessary criteria for a well-balanced questionnaire. Then the user responds to statements sequentially, depending on how much they agree or disagree with them.

After completing the test, a mix of statistical analyses and operations is performed, and the resulting sociotype profile is displayed. The test does not rely on any functional definitions and is not based on any specific socionics models. It extracts the most consistent intersections from the collective type images, filters out noise, and forms stable correlations based on that. The relationships between functions, dichotomies, and types are purely mathematical. Descriptions are provided as supplementary information and continue to evolve, becoming clearer and more refined to align with factor-analytically derived data..

In the beginning (before the test app appeared), we thought the main issue in the field was the accuracy of personality assessments. But in reality, that is not as big of a problem—especially considering modern capabilities. Moreover, counterintuitively, the accuracy of a test is inversely proportional to how much demand there will be for the test (a similar pattern is found with all advanced psychometrics).

People usually like MBTI or much simpler pop psychology tests. And these tests are good if you want to get people to talk about the fact that there are individual differences in personalities. They don't offend anybody, don't reveal points where people don't do well, allow space for role-playing and live in a fantasy world, and don't require for people to have any amount of statistical reasoning. Unlike scientific disciplines, they not constrained by reality; they can say whatever they want, and it doesn't have to be scientifically supported.

These tests have 0 predictability with regards to performance prediction, and has all the lacks you'd expect from systems which were not generated with modern statistical technology. Perhaps they did a fine job for the 1930s, but now we have powerful computational devices that we can use to sort out the structure of personality properly and make valid and reliable tools.

Nowadays, apart from hard biological end of psychology (where certainly some solid work done), psychometric data is the most reliable, valid part of social science, which is able to predict how people's life transform and change across time and what level of achievement they manage.

There were attempts to come up with some complex set of tasks and invite people come into the lab, videotape them and extract all the information about their personality by a carefully chosen set of different things that people go through. And the outcome of this huge amount of work was that it gave orders of magnitude less to learn in general, than just asking people a bunch of questions, despite all the difficulties with self-reports, which includes biases, motivation to think of themselves as being more desirable in various ways than they are from a social desirability perspective, and others.

Reconfirmation through reports from others (cross-reference testing, where different people who know you well answer test questions about you) demonstrates a high convergence of results, which links internal experiences with external perspectives on personality and points to high validity, reproducibility, and, accordingly, a high level of scientific rigor, indicating that the assessment is well-designed and its results are credible. The metrics also serve the function of this third-person feedback, helping to validate the consistency and objectivity of the personality profile.

We are open to all other observational, behavioral, physiological, and conceptual measures. But here, we need to be more picky with each point.

Currently, such set of methods provides valid, effective, and scalable results for most cases:

Self-report using a standardized scientific questionnaire with robust feedback accuracy metrics.

Observer-report using the same methodology.

Re-assessment following the same methodology, with a new set of questions.

Longitudinal or repeated observations. Which can also be covered to some extent with the analysis of publicly available information about a specific person.

Additional methods: cognitive tests, computerized tasks, MRI.

Why Video Interviews Play a Limited Role

Video interviews are rarely the primary tool in fields like neuropsychology and personality psychology for good reason. The goal is to identify stable patterns that manifest consistently over time, which is difficult in a brief, situational interaction. People can easily mask or adapt their behavior when aware of being observed. Interviews of this nature tend to capture a narrow range of traits—like social skills, verbal communication, and emotional expressions—while deeper traits, such as rationality, may go unobserved. Furthermore, the lack of standardization and replicability makes them prone to capturing state-like, situational behaviors rather than enduring personality characteristics.

Another common myth is that psychometric frameworks which rely a lot on self-reports are just about how people perceive themselves or about how people perceive other people. In reality, the existence of personality is not dependent on the existence of qualia. And these systems describe patterns of behavior that exist regardless of whether people are accurately aware of them or not. And you can take different kind of objective measurements of a particular trait (assuming it has validity), and confirm that it's not just about 'I think I talk a lot' - the person actually do so (which would also correlate with Extraversion). And the above has a fair amount of evidence.

Per-Answer Granularity

Account for up to x40 more precision in answering question, which significantly reduces the noise and improves accuracy.

Per-Question Efficiency, Real-time Question Feedback Adjustment

Questions automatically receive weights based on their performances, eliminating bad and ineffective ones, making each question contribute the most to the accuracy of the result.

Automated Questionnaire Generation

It can instantly generate any number of questionnaires on demand, though manual composition might offer certain advantages if properly optimized.

Automated Questionnaire Processing

It can instantly process any number of completed questionnaires on demand.

Answer Biases Removal

All filled questionnaires filter for a set of multiple biases.

Accuracy Feedback Metrics

There is a set of public feedback accuracy metrics, which helps to avoid deception and self-deception.

6 additional metrics hidden since 2025.

Inertness — function's sensitivity, stubbornness, principledness.

From now on it will be calculated as tiny bars near strength-values of functions.

Answer honestly

If you are not as honest as you can be when taking a personality questionnaire, it will not accurately represent you, and you won't learn as much about yourself. People can also accidentally or subconsciously distort their personalities, but this is usually less of an issue than commonly assumed. Additionally, there are answer quality metrics that can help assess it.

Answer not how you would behave, but how you did

Answer based on how you typically are, not how you wish to be. It doesn't mean you can't behave completely differently depending on an infinite number of factors, but it's likely that in the past, you behaved in a way that was more typical. Strive for balance—don't be too hard or overly generous with yourself.

Utilize the full range of the answer scale to indicate your position more accurately

The more nuanced your responses, the more precise the results will be. Avoid defaulting to a simple '100% yes' or '100% no' for all questions, as this reduces the overall accuracy.

Do not try to fit into any typology images

This will reduce the accuracy of the result. Be yourself.

Intense mental states can affect results

If you're experiencing depression (e.g., your past, present, and future seem bleak or negative, you struggle to find joy in things, you feel bad about yourself, or can't see any light in your life), it can skew your personality scores as a result. Take this into consideration.

Avoid taking this when you're angry, tired, feeling down, overly self-critical, or in a bad mood.

Take this calmly and undistracted

Avoid doing it when you're likely to be interrupted or distracted. It's important to approach this seriously and thoughtfully.

Providing accurate and honest responses will ensure you get the most valuable feedback.

No one typically takes the time to help you understand your identity, and purpose. Taking the time to explore these aspects can provide valuable insights that may be beneficial in various areas of life.

Your very perceptions are dependent on the variability in your personality. It constitutes a kind of template or filter through which you organize your perceptions. So it's important to understand that there is substantial personality variability in the world, or you're often talking with people who see things differently. People differ in how they see the world.

One of the most fundamental ingredients to being happy in life and being successful is to be realistic about yourself, your preferences, your strengths and weaknesses. If you can understand what you are like, then you can understand the path in your life that is going to suit what you're like and also be able to overcome your obstacles and be successful, as yours potential allows.

Knowing your clearer personal portrait, a good first step is to ensure that you are in a position that capitalizes on your traits — it's really difficult to work contrary to them. As long as you're capable of finding the place where your particular filters, temperament and behavioral proclivities match the demand of the environment, it will fit into a successful adaptation and work good for you.

Another more specific advice - it doesn't hurt to expand your temperament. And you can develop the aspects where there are imbalances. Your profile put you in a certain place in the distribution. And it isn't so much that you want to move the place. It is that you want to move the variability, so that you can be what you need to be when situation demands. And it doesn't mean to blow in the wind, it means to be adaptable instead of constrained tightly by your biological predisposition.

Understanding how people work can hopefully lead to more fulfilling lives and help people clinically. Additionally, it can provide a new perspective on one's own personality, helping to navigate life more effectively, informed by psychological research and neuroscience.

Examples of Capitalizing

High in Sensing, and moderately high in Conscientiousness: you're more practical and concrete, also less flighty and less prone to creative error (e.g. often very creative people are fonts of ideas that won't work and that will occupy a tremendous amount of counterproductive time in their implementation). You're probably not going to be interested in ideas to that degree. You'd likely be happier taking a more conservative path in life.

High in Extraversion, Invariance, Emotional Fluidity, Antagonism: you're going to have to find a job where stress levels can be higher, compared to regular person.

High in Introversion: you want to find a place where you could work and spend fair bit of time by yourself.

High in Systemizing: you will find yourself more interested in things- and task-oriented environments.

High in Empathizing: you will find yourself be more interested in people-oriented environments.

Very high in Emotional Viscosity, Adaptivity - there are things you can do about that (if it's really out of hand). Either from self-help (e.g. meditation, learning to control your breathing, etc) or via talk to someone if there's some physiological reason for that.

Examples of Balancing

High in Benevolence: learn how to negotiate for yourself, in a tough-minded manner. You might need to figure out what it is that you want, what you're resentful about, and what you need to negotiate about on your own behalf.

High in Antagonism: learn to take other people into consideration more. You might want to think hard about consciously deciding that once a week or so you're going to try to do something for someone else (which is particularly important for people with high Antagonism because it doesn't come to them naturally, and there are research that suggest that doing something altruistic on a regular basis does seem to improve overall well-being 1 2).

High in Spontaneity: it wouldn't hurt to have a schedule to start working on that, because otherwise it is going to interfere with your long-term success.

High in Conscientiousness: you might need to learn to relax a little bit and to make that a priority.

High in Imagining: try to focus on one thing and get good at that, and not flying out all over the place laterally, develop true expertise in at least one place, commit to something.

High in Sensing: open yourself up a little bit.

High in Introversion: you can develop social skils. But you have to do them one at a time, because it's not something that comes naturally to you, and it might not be something that you developed as a child. You have to consciously plan a social strategy (SMART).

High in Extraversion: you might practice being alone a little bit. So that you can learn how to spend some quality time on yourself and not be so dependent on the company of others.

An accentuated dichotomy's pole gives a person uniqueness and distinction from others, while at the same time increasing their chances of maladaptation.

Since dichotomies are considered independent of each other and align with many factors from personality psychology, noticing the accentuation of them may be meaningful addition, particularly in some applications, as they reflect the direct magnitude of deviations in distinct traits that are highlighted in a particular individual.

High personality ranges can be a sign of development. An important aspect of personality development might be in the capacity to transcend the constraints of one's biological temperament. For instance, an individual who is naturally introverted can learn to engage in more extraverted behaviors, thereby expanding their repertoire of competencies and adapting to a broader range of social contexts.

In modern society, unleashing of human potential is still inefficient. The self-actualization of each individual and a systematic approach to harnessing that potential will become even more relevant. When a person engages in what is innate (what they want) and what is developed and acquired (what they can do), they become happy, in the broadest sense of this word.

Personality refers to probabilistic tendencies for relatively stable patterns of cognition (how people process the world), evolutionary and biological drives, behavior, and emotion—shaped by evolutionary pressures and responding to culturally recurring classes of stimuli—which also have a certain amount of predictability. It doesn't mean that it manifests in every situation, but it means that a in particular person, relative to someone else, it is most likely to be manifested and experienced more often, more intensely, in more situations.

Personality traits are persistent patterns of cognition, behavior, and motivation. They are relatively stable over time and characterize the way an individual behaves or experiences the world. These traits represent consistent averages, are universal, and are non-specific.

Personality adaptations are relatively stable interpretations, strategies, and goals shaped by an individual's specific life circumstances and experiences. These adaptations are distinct from universal human traits, as they reflect personalized responses to unique environmental and social contexts.

Personality traits are not neatly divided into separate groups; instead, they exist along a continuum. All personality traits are best understood as spectra, typically distributed in a bell curve. If binary categories was how personality really worked, then you would expect to see the scores from those questionnaires distributed bimodally. It means that you would see a bunch of people score at high, and a bunch of people score at low, and very few people who score in the middle. But In reality it's in a way the opposite. Most people cluster near the average, with relatively few at the extremes. And if you one of those who score near the average in these binary systems, your results will be permanently unstable - it can't account for your ambiversion and forced to put you into either A or B category, creating artificial distinctions. A modern scientifically valid approach is to measure personality traits on a continuous scale, providing scores that reflect a range from one end of the spectrum to the other.

This means that on average, across large spans of time, there have been environments that match every single position on that distribution, with most of the environments matching the center, because otherwise we wouldn't have evolved that way. So sometimes being really Introverted is going to work well for you, in a minority of environments, a minority of niches, and sometimes it's just going to be a catastrophe.

Personality traits can change (accordingly, the sociotype profile), even in adulthood. While they are not entirely fixed, they tend to be quite stable and strong over time, making significant changes challenging. That said, dramatic shifts—such as transitioning from being a complete introvert to a complete extravert, or vice versa, in a reasonable timeframe—are unlikely.

Personality traits represent variations in universal psychological mechanisms shared by all humans, they are enduring qualities that can describe people across different cultures and historical periods. While both traits and adaptations can change, adaptations are much easier to alter.

From research in statistics, virtually everyone has at least one personality trait they would like to change. Therapeutic interventions have been shown to change personality traits. The next stage would be to develop systematic, programmatic interventions to help people adjust different personality traits.

First of all, if you want to work on your personality, the first thing you have to do is to figure out who it is that you want to be and then you have to make a plan.

In general, if you want to change your specific traits, you need to change your adaptations first (habits, strategies, goals). And as you become better at these particular domains you may actually find that broader parameters of these mechanisms are starting to shift (a feedback loop forms), and you're consequently shifting your broader personality traits. Example: improving in sales can lead to an increase in Extraversion.

To change your personality, it might also be important to consider changing your relationships. If you are heavily invested in relationships where your role differs significantly from the one you desire, it may be difficult to shift your general one.

Often, a person is a mix of 2-3 standard socionics types. Introducing a compositional metatype system can bring clarity in personality profiling, as it considers the profile entirely and approach it more granularly, not just picking from 16 limited options. Which also provides no ambiguity, as it shows explicit, general, long-term, stable patterns and characteristic tendencies of an individual.

Problems with socionics subtypes:

-does not account for ambiversion (the most common position on many traits for most people);

-considers only a small set of symmetric variants;

-does not work well in practice (scientifically unquantifiable);

-creates unnecessary entities—rather than simply noting that someone has heightened Extraversion, it layers on an elaborate theory that still fails to capture that specific accentuation.

Strength-Value Spectra Notation (Short):

This system allows representations of 10,625+ personality combinations in a compact way. By using first 7 strongest dichotomies, which accounts on average for 80% of a contribution to the characteristic of the sociotype profile.

If a pole in a person is not prominent and lies near the center of a normal distribution (its value is less than 1/16 of the scale), it need not be included in the notation, as mentioning it serves no purpose.

If a pole in a person is notable (its value exceeds 1/16 of the scale), it makes sense to indicate it, denoted by a lowercase letter or word.

If a pole in a person is highly prominent (its value exceeds 1/4 of the scale), it should be emphasized, denoted by an uppercase letter or word.

Utilizing the entire sociotype spectra of each person for relation calculation has much higher accuracy and predictability for real life applications. It is available on the comparison page of two results.

Quantitative and reproducible methods of targeted personality adjustments.

Personality traits and descriptions inherently involve probability: on average, you tend to act more or less in a given way than someone with a different level of the same trait. Again, that's the important thing to know for people who are interested in personality and who are trying to understand what personality is. If we say somebody is high in Extraversion it doesn't mean that they are going to be acting highly extraverted in every situation all of the time. There are some situations where there aren't particularly good cues for it. When you're alone in your house you're probably not talking as much. So there are some limitations on how it might be expressed and there's kind of distribution in the way that we behave over time. Extraverts act more extraverted on average than introverts, not all the time, and can act introverted sometime.

Despite situational variability, Individuals average level of a specific behavior tends to remain remarkably stable over time. For instance, if you track someone's behavior over a week, their actions may fluctuate considerably day-to-day. However, when averaged, a consistent behavioral pattern emerges.

These average behavioral tendencies strongly correlate with the results obtained from personality questionnaires, which appear adept at capturing these general, stable patterns. Such questionnaires are particularly effective at identifying an individual's characteristic tendencies, even though their moment-to-moment behavior is influenced by situational factors and internal goals that shift in response to changing circumstances.

The idea may add some depth to the system, accounting for person's personality progress and adaptation vectors.

General notion is that a person is assigned to one of 16 types, which are unchangeable since birth, subtypes and accentuations reflect later changes. While this approach is clear, it might oversimplify current scientific understandings and developments.

There is a broader range of distinct characteristics, which hard to confine into 16 categories. By mapping a full broad continuum—from each individual's inborn core profile to their most current expression—we can capture every step of their psychological development and adaptation.

Definition of this innate or core type can be a highly-genetic set of characteristics, which is unlikely to change within one's lifetime, despite learning, system of values, attitudes, and will. On top of that we can have a highly-epigenetic, relatively flexible part of the psyche.

A: Sociotype (stable and unchangeable) → Subtype (stable and changeable) → ...

B: Genotype / Neurotype (stable and unchangeable) ← Sociotype (stable and changeable) ← Personal Adaptations

Individual personality is context-dependent and can vary across different settings. Each setting—whether slightly or significantly—shifts a person’s personality profile in a particular direction. The sum of these shifts, averaged across individuals, can characterize the profile of a given setting.

Similarly, different organizations have their own settings, which influence their internal dynamics.

Settings can be divided into two categories: organic and curated. An organic setting is a natural environment where changes occur without prior preparation, simply influenced by the surroundings. A curated setting, by contrast, is deliberately adjusted to shift the sociotype in a specific way (for example, a revitalizing, innovative, or competitive setting).

One of the fields that has significantly influenced socionics formation was cybernetics. And it might worth to bring more attention to it again, as it permeates many layers of the modern society, and might give insights, by going above personality into more fundamental evolutionary behavior patterns.

Cybernetics theory was developed by MIT cognitive scientist Norbert Wiener, an early AI researcher. He proposed that intelligent entities are goal-directed, and organize their behavior around reducing deviations from a goal as they approach it, once they have decided on that goal. Cybernetic systems are self-regulating systems, via feedback mechanisms. And all organisms try to pursue their goals to allow them to survive and reproduce.

The goals set the frame. They also need to be well-integrated across both conscious and unconscious experiences (as unconscious processes are much more extensive than conscious ones), be viable (realistically possible for you), and sustainable (things that work for you in the long term, or at least the relatively long term).

The Big Five is one the most scientifically robust frameworks in personality science, grounded in decades of research. During the 80s and 90s the field solidified around the consensus that five personality traits known as the Big Five could be well used to describe the major dimensions of personality. This is still the most widely used consensus system for personality traits in the field today. And its high compatibility with modern socionics—which not only enables easy and accurate derivation of a Big Five profile but also aligns with and even surpasses this mainstream consensus in a few scientific metrics—underscores the quality and scientific validity of this new quantitative framework.

The latest developments in Big Five, such as the introduction of Aspects (ten-factor system), indicate that in some sense 5 factors were not enough and a more complex system is preferable to view personality in a more granular way. Interestingly, some of these developments suggest that certain broader understandings present in socionics from its outset are now being examined more in personality psychology.

Examples of Aspects and Facets

Openness Aspect

Detection of correlational and sensory patterns.

The degree to which people are prone to detecting patterns in their environment (appreciation of art, the enjoyment of sensory information, the ability to construct scenes). Automatic detection of patterns in sensory experience. Implicit learning (an automatic statistical process of detecting patterns in our environment, in perception and learn them, how good a person at picking up unconsciously on statistical regularities and having that guide their future behavior).

Openness predicts creative achievements in Arts (visual arts, writing, music, theater, creativity, etc.). Correlation is 0.4

People who are more creative in visual arts are more likely to be more creative in writing, music, theater, and vice-versa.

Correlates with IQ at 0.1

Correlates with Verbal abilities at 0.25

reasoning about the similarities or analogies between different things

Correlates with Nonverbal abilities at 0.0

ability to think logically about various systems, about mechanics, about structures that expressed not in terms of words, mathematical abilities

Intellect Aspect

Detecting causal and logical patterns.

Conscious manipulation of abstract information, allowed by working memory. Connected to functions of brain regions associated with some of the most abstract processing the brain does, integrating multiple cognitive operations that might be taking place at other parts of the brain, integrating the output of those operations. Associated with analogical, abstract reasoning between parallel structures.

Intellect predicts higher achievements in sciences (basic science, inventions, engineering). Correlation is 0.3

People who are more creative in basic science are more likely to be more creative in inventions, engineering, and vice-versa.

Intellect correlates with IQ at 0.3

Intellect correlates with Nonverbal abilities at 0.3

ability to think logically about various systems, about mechanics, about structures that expressed not in terms of words, mathematical abilities

Intellect correlates with Verbal abilities at 0.25

reasoning about the similarities or analogies between different things

Apophenia Facet (Imagining + Detail Immersion + Passionarism + Empathizing)

The tendency to perceive meaningful patterns and causal connections where none in fact exist. Extreme apophenia - hallucinations and delusions. But everyone experiences milder forms. E.g. a shape in the cloud, a face in some random pattern, hearing somebody calling your name in a crow, believing in luck or astrology.

Apophenia correlates with Openness Aspect at 0.3

Apophenia correlates with Intellect Aspect at -0.1

Balanced Openness to Experience Trait: Automatically detecting patterns (related to Openness), and using reasoning capacity to figure out what patterns real and reasonable (related to Intellect).

The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) is a modern, dimensional, evidence-based model that classifies mental disorders by symptom patterns, focusing on spectrums rather than rigid categories—an evolution from DSM/ICD, mirroring the shift from narrow old typologies to advanced frameworks.

HiTOP uses actual empirical data on patterns of symptoms—specifically, which symptoms tend to occur together—to describe the range of different symptoms associated with mental disorders. This approach groups symptoms based on real empirical evidence, rather than relying solely on tradition, medical intuition, or expert opinion that has accumulated over the past 100 years.

For many practitioners, it is often observed that individuals with more 'pathological markers' are still able to function effectively, achieving their life goals and leading fulfilling lives. Conversely, individuals with fewer such markers, though considered healthier, may still struggle. Such indistinctness is greatly helped to be eliminated by more granular approaches like this one.

Quite Overview

Internalizing Spectrum: (~ Emotional Viscosity + Adaptivity). General risk factor for mood disorders, anxiety, depression.

Though Disorder Spectrum: (~ Imagining).

Detachment Spectrum: (~ Introversion). Detachment from other people, detachment from various goals, low motivation, anhedonia, social difficulties, social withdrawal, loneliness. It's about not experiencing much excitement, engagement, and often having difficulty having the energy or desire to connect with other people. But it's not about turning inward and being more interested in your inner life the way Jung thought (that's Imagining + Introversion).

Low Detachment Spectrum: (~ Extraversion) - risks with excitement seeking or sensation seeking.

Disinhibited Externalizing Spectrum: (~ Spontaneity). Impulsivity, difficulty with self-regulation, distractibility, acting on impulse; compulsivity, and a tendency toward compulsive behaviors..

Low Disinhibited Externalizing Spectrum: (~ Conscientiousness). Rigid perfectionism that can't let people finish things because they're so detail-oriented and they cant' let anything go until they feel it's totally perfect.

Antagonistic Externalizing Spectrum: (~ Antagonism + Artfulness). Inability to get along harmoniously with other people, engagement in aggressive behavior, unable to empathize with other people. Psychopathic traits - degree of callousness, inability to care about other people, willingness to exploit them, difficulty in feeling any kind of negative emotion around hurting other people. In the extreme that would be associated with a lot of behaviors and characteristics that get described as psychopathy, also narcissism (the sense of entitlement, the sense that only thing that really matters is that I get what I want, willingness to exploit other people and use them in various ways, even if it's not fully conscious). Dark triad traits are facets of Antagonism pole (machiavellianism, psychpathy, narcissism - these are one of the best indicators of this general dimension). So there is a tendency for people to be cooperative and altruistic, versus belligerent and exploitative.

Somatoform Spectrum: (~ + Conscientiousness + Adaptivity + Empathizing) problems in which people have concerns and experiences relating to their body where there's no obvious physical dysfunction but they have feelings and worries and concerns about their physical well-being.

A comprehensive, cybernetic-evolutionary understanding of the psyche and personality, combined with advanced psychological frameworks, could offer new perspectives and potentially solve previously unsolvable problems.

From that perspective psychopathology can be understood as a form of dysfunction, which arises when an individual's current understanding of the world, set of goals, or strategies for transforming the world from its present state to a desired state fail to work effectively. Moreover, in such cases, the person is unable to generate new goals or strategies. When individuals find themselves trapped in this state—where their approaches are ineffective, and they cannot adapt or escape—it often leads to mental illness. They become stuck in a dysfunctional, entropic state. And psychopathology, in this sense, reflects a failure of the individual's cybernetic system to function properly.

Pharmaceuticals are often not the most effective way to treat mental illness. Research into treatment is shockingly underdeveloped, partly due to the financial incentives tied to pharmaceutical solutions. For long-term well-being, individuals need to learn to explore different ways of thinking, identify meaningful goals, and develop effective strategies to achieve them. This process includes reevaluating how they perceive and interpret the world, as well as how they assess and prioritize their goals. Ultimately, this approach is key to fostering mental health — addressing these deeper issues is what ultimately enables recovery.

The inability to maintain stable goal pursuit is one of the main components of psychopathology.

The risk factor for psychopathology can be described using a formula:

p-factor ≈ Emotional Viscosity ± (Introversion/Extraversion) + Spontaneity + Adaptivity + Passionarism + Imagining + Differentiation + Complexification + Negative Valence

The way mental illness manifests—through an array of symptoms that tend to cluster together—mirrors the patterns seen in personality traits. The structure of psychopathology and the symptoms of mental illness closely parallel the structure of personality itself. In essence, mental disorders represent extremely dysfunctional manifestations of normal personality traits. Accordingly, it can also be presented as a distinct profile.

Some personality manifestations can act as ineffective adaptations to the environment. Identifying these points and addressing them might help a person switch to a more effective and healthy state.

One way to strengthen a function within yourself is to immerse yourself in an environment where others exhibit that function in their behavior—and then imitate them.

Given that overly pronounced traits—especially certain ones—can raise the risk of dysfunction and psychopathology, and that exposure to others who exhibit (or counter) these traits can measurably alter their expression in ourselves, it is reasonable to explore new therapeutic approaches. Such interventions could target specific mental, psychological, or personality factors more precisely and help individuals move out of dysfunctional states. 2/2

In attempts to find a more accurate name inline with factor analytically derived meaning of Rationality pole, in one way or another it still comes out as Conscientiousness akin to Big 5 factor. This dimension itself is intriguing and may occupy a far from insignificant place within the system and in human personality, and it is also might be another one which is related to socionics Social Progress concept (S > F > N > T - Right-spin/Complexification, from Sensing to Empathizing to Imagining to Systemizing, but also — from Spontaneity to Conscientiousness).

A lot of traits are universal across species. On the other hand, Conscientiousness is a dimension which doesn't seem to appear in most others (but it does clearly appear in bonobos and chimps). It is related to organizing behavior around abstract future-oriented goals, and most species don't coordinate toward goals sufficiently far in the future — here we don't see this overarching set of capacities for planning, for avoiding distractions, the ability to effectively prioritize goals and then guide actions. Conscientiousness is also about suppressing impulses, and impulsivity coheres with more basic level systems in general. It is also matters in the setting where you have the freedom to prioritize your own goals, which are not heavily determined by your current environment and where goal priorities are not already scaffolded.

Conscientiousness is connected with prefrontal cortex, which over the course of evolutionary time grew out of the frontal cortex, more specifically out of the motor cortex. It generates potential abstract patterns of action, in abstraction so that they can be assessed before they're implemented, generating potential future selves.

It is also related to the concept of order. Order is when you are aware that what you are doing is producing the result you want to have happen. It's orderly because you can predict it. You do A and you want B, and B happens. This means you know where you are, you know what you're doing, and things are working.

This pole is a good predictor of life-long success, especially in academic attainment, and also in managerial and administrative jobs that require a fair bit of responsibility, and routine work.

When we talk about a function being psychic energy, we’re likely referring to the concept in which a connection between the more humanitarian side and the more scientific side becomes possible. This, in turn, offers a clearer understanding of what energy is.

Energy arises from contrast or difference. A difference in potential (a high concentration in one place and a low concentration in another) creates stored—or potential—energy. Blood flow increases, delivering more oxygen and generating a higher electrical potential.

On a more basic and physical level, it is the electrical activity of neurons in the cerebral cortex and the electrochemical tactility between them. This is what provides perception, the functioning of the psyche, at its most fundamental level. A bit higher up are instincts and reflexes, physiological needs related to survival and reproduction, which manifests through behavior. Then, there are the subjective forces of attraction and repulsion between people. You are drawn to some, repelled by others, and indifferent to yet others. Living beings feel emotions, they desire, they strive toward something, they have wants. And there are dimensions of what could be, duration, cyclicity, and finally — information.

There are several implicit hierarchies in this framework that aren’t explicitly defined, as well as some outdated ones that require reevaluation or supplementation. We can select different criteria and use them to sort these dimensions for various purposes.

~ Example 1 - Dimension Prevalence (how pronounced is it, on average)

1. Extraversion/Introversion

2. Systemizing/Empathizing

3. ...

15. Env. Dependence/Env. Independence

~ Example 2 - Dimension Plasticity (how easily changeable is it, on average)

1. Emotional Viscosity/Emotional Fluidity

2. ...

15. Extraversion/Introversion

Sociotype has a significant genetic component, meaning it is partially inheritable. Although the precise mechanisms remain unclear, inheritance likely follows a homeostatic principle across several dimensions. Roughly speaking, the child of two Ethical types has a higher probability of being a Logical type rather than an Ethical one.

INFP, Benevolence, Adaptivity <-> ESTJ, Antagonism, Invariance

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Psychology + Technology

PsyTech Economy, Self-Sustainability

Interdisciplinary Applications

Sociotype Development

Personality Science / Neuroscience

Personality-Optimized Flows

Directed Personality Adjustments

Digital Socion

Quantitative Models

Metatype Systems

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AI Real-time Diagnostics

Sociotype Agents

Synthetic Participants (Agent-reports)

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