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Recent ArticlesSocionics is a theory of information processing and personality type, distinguished by its information model of the psyche, called Model A, and a model of interpersonal relations. It incorporates Carl Jung's work on Psychological Types with Antoni Kępiński's theory of information metabolism. Socionics is a modification of Jung's personality type theory that uses eight psychic functions. These functions process information at varying levels of competency and interact with the corresponding function in other individuals, giving rise to predictable reactions and impressions—a theory of intertype relations.
Socionics was developed in the 1970s and '80s, primarily by the Lithuanian researcher Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, an economist, sociologist, and dean of the Vilnius Pedagogical University's department of family science. A. Augustinavičiūtė has later shortened her last name from "Augustinavichiute" to "Augusta" to make it easier to spell for foreigners. The name "socionics" is derived from the word "society", because A. Augusta believed that each personality type has a distinct purpose in society, which can be described and explained by socionics. Augusta created symbols to represent the functions described by Carl Jung and — together with a circle of fellow researchers/hobbyists — eventually created what is known as the "socionic model of the psyche" — a description of the psyche where each of the 8 information elements has its place in each person's psyche.
The central idea of socionics is that information is intuitively divisible into eight categories, called information aspects or information elements, which a person's psyche processes using eight psychological functions. Each sociotype has a different correspondence between functions and information elements, which results in different ways of perceiving, processing, and producing information. This in turn results in distinct thinking patterns, values, and responses to arguments, all of which are encompassed within socionic type. Socionics' theory of intertype relations is based on the interaction of these functions between types.
Recent PostsThis topic has gone on for a long time in an adversarial manner, there probably isn't much chance of productive discussion in the future.
@blaecaedre it’s what I notice at work. SEIs and ESEs want to chat all the time (be entertained), LIIs only like chatting to people when it suits
Bethany Today, 07:57 PM
...That is not what extraverted means in either Jung or socionics. Extraversion in these typologies is not about going to parties and caring what people
Coeruleum Blue Today, 07:15 PM
in my view his Fe is only at an adequate level, in order to be presentable. he's quite restrained
blaecaedre Today, 06:17 PM
Gamma do banter . Killing the mood is there humour and that’s probably the funniest once you get it tbh
Too deep Today, 06:16 PM
You can only kill the mood if you know there is one to begin with..
I usually don't like participating in the group's mood unless I'm in
Is there any difference between the IEI that wastes life away daydreaming and leading a mostly passive existence and an IEI that's so open about his fantasy
Rusal Today, 04:49 PM
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it's kinda weird to me that the people that mainly write here are people that I have put on ignore a longer while know. Blue, Rusal, Timber, I don't see
Alive Today, 09:59 PM