Argumentation Style
The four distinct small groups within a category and their psychological implications for personality typing.
Small Group Analysis
Small groups represent the intersection of four personality types that share common characteristics. Each group reveals fundamental patterns in how types process information, make decisions, and interact with the world.
Category's Small Groups
Constructor
Group Properties
Thinking in schemes rather than images. Lack of artistic creativity. Takes responsibility upon oneself rather than placing it on others. Disdain for unproductive time-wasting or 'squandering life.'
Maintaining one's objective usefulness.
Group of Integrated Logic
Restructurer
Group Properties
Lack of ethical restraints in thinking. Tendency to live by 'rules of the street' rather than the law. Uncharacteristic religiosity, often a cynical and contemptuous attitude toward religious doctrines and their followers. Lack of sensitivity, emotional vulnerability, and resentment, underdeveloped sense of guilt. Calmness. Casual attitude towards material losses and deprivations.
Achieving more freedom of action.
Guardian
Group Properties
High normativity in thinking and behavior. Attention to the ethical behavior of others, ensuring it aligns with moral standards (as personally understood). A strong sense of guilt. Sensitivity. Frequent anxiety, especially for loved ones; struggles with losses.
Identification of one's position with the opinion of one's group, speaking on its behalf.
Group of Integrated Ethics
Diplomat
Group Properties
Imaginative thinking, artistic creativity. Diplomatic talent: charm, ease in adapting to the interlocutor, flexibility in changing behavior and making concessions in sudden threats. Lack of drive for productivity and practical societal benefit, tendency to shift responsibility onto others, a propensity for a carefree lifestyle.
Modifying someone else's behavior to fit their needs.