What is socionics?

 

"Is it possible to divide people into certain groups? If so, how?" – this question was definitely asked by every psychologist, psychiatrist and, in fact, every person. Socionics is the concept of personality types and the relationships between them. Each person can be assigned to one of sixteen types of information metabolism or TIMs. (Information metabolism is the process of assimilation, processing and transmission of information by the human psyche).  For better understanding and memorization, each is selected characteristic characters who have become their socionic pseudonyms.

 

TIM  is  an innate style, kind of behavior, perception and processing of information. Absolutely any people from different segments of the population can have the same TIM, so they will react almost identically to similar situations and emerging questions. A pairwise combination of the four main distinguishing features: rationality-irrationality, ethics-logic, sensory-intuition and extraversion-introversion gives 16 personality types (or TIM). First things first:

 

Does a person think with his head or feel with his heart? What comes to the fore in making decisions, resolving situations? Logicians welcome cold calculation, love, even subconsciously, to systematize and analyze everything.  Ethics, on the contrary, put their feelings and experiences in the foreground. Such people are well versed in the relationships of others, feel the atmosphere and mood - including in their address. Read more about the differences between ethicists and logicians here.

 

Intuition relies on the unconscious part of the psyche, and sensory on the conscious part.  Sensory people are down-to-earth people. They live here and now and do not like to hover in the clouds – their desires and needs are feasible. Sometimes it is difficult for sensory people to understand the essence of the big picture if they do not see the details. Intuition usually live in the past and the future, very often they do not care about what is happening now. Representatives of this type think abstractly. They pay very little attention to the study of details, but they perceive the essence well. This often creates difficulties in the lives of intuitionists.

 

These concepts are already quite common and from the point of view of psychology and socionics they differ significantly. In socionics, introversion and extroversion are psychological ways of adapting to the environment. The extroverted method consists in a high rate of reproduction, with a relatively low protective ability, which constantly encourages the extrovert to squander and infiltrate everything around. As a result extroverts more sociable, friendly and active. 

The opposite way for an introvert to adapt is to defend himself from any external influences, to refrain from any expenditure of energy, but to create for himself the most advantageous position in the world.  For introverts, it is important that the work they do is liked by themselves and, in extreme cases, by the closest environment.

 

Differences in the principles of thinking, based on different ways of perceiving information and making decisions, divide people into rationals and irrationals. Rationals, having made a decision, cease to perceive the newly received information on the problem , and irrationals continue to perceive this information and adjust the decision on the basis of new data. The first love order in everything, prefer to plan their affairs, make plans and follow them, they are not characterized by sharp changes in mood. For irrationals, it's clearly the opposite: they are impossible to keep track of, they are difficult to understand. More about rationality

 

On the basis of these key differences, the information model of the psyche Model "A" is built. Socionics is based on it.

 

You can read about the history of socionics, the basic principles and reliability of the results here