Temperament
The four distinct small groups within a category and their psychological implications for personality diagnostics.
Category's Small Groups
Radial-Pivoting
Group Properties
See the world as a multitude of separate potentials – objects and subjects that can be approached, played with (Possibility Intuition), or fought with (Power Sensing), comparing their skills and strengths. The desire to try everything in this world – to look, touch, taste – leads them into the midst of chaos, as there are more opportunities to encounter something new and gain new experiences. Actively resists conformity and external - going against the current is not a burden but a pleasure.
Questions: "What is this?", "Who is this?", directed at everything around them; "let me check" is their primary reaction.
Semantics: Surprises, Improvisations, Games, Fights, Experiments, Experiences, Intrigues, Tricks, Manipulations, Cunning, Risks, Provocations.
Vectored-Driving
Group Properties
See the environment as filled with streams of events directed by someone's consistent efforts. Their main reaction is the desire to change something, meet deadlines, outpace competitors, and neutralize negative circumstances. Operates independently (Pragmatic Logic), or engages others in action (Emotive Ethics).
Questions: "What is happening?", "What to do next?" are the questions guiding these people through life.
Semantics: Actions, Efforts, Accelerations, Schedules, Troubles, Feats, Works, Passions, Directives, Initiatives, Achievements, Status, Competition.
Steady-Regulating
Group Properties
See systems of conditions in everything. Their life goals are to integrate into the best, most correct system from their perspective or to create and maintain their own. Formal, general systems (Structural Logic), or informal, private systems (Relational Ethics).
Questions: "Where? When? Why? How?" are the most important ones to them as their answers determine whether they have correctly oriented themselves in the world and chosen the right position.
Semantics: Conditions, Directions, Distances, Limitations, Punishments, Systems, Orders, Connections, Duties, Principles.
Ambient-Drifting
Group Properties
Most attuned to hidden properties and inner workings of everything they encounter. They tend to sense the slow changes in objects and systems, recognizing hidden content through subtle external cues, discerning quality, and determining what is beneficial and pleasant at the moment (Comfort Sensing), versus what is draining or unpleasant (Temporal Intuition).
Questions: "What is it like?", "What does it contain?"
Semantics: Expectations, Changes, Qualities, Illusions, Dreams, Remedies, Whims, Moods, Analyses, Sensations, Comfort.