All Identical Twins have the Same Type?
Woah. Hardcore topic. Yes I'm starting it, I searched and didn't find any other thread on 16types already about this.
Do all identical twins have the same type?
Now, we all know there have been loads of 'tests', how twins can grow up with different personalities, different interests, different behaviors, preferences for things.................... BUT NONE OF THAT IS RELATED TO TYPE. This goes into the definition of socionics, the study of intertype relationships. People of the same personality type can look vastly different:
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Originally Posted by http://www.socionics.us/intro.shtml
Although types often display similar values, life strategies, general behavior, and facial expressions, such traits such as IQ, musical talent, sports abilities, charisma, "personal power," etc. are little related to type. A review of how socionists have typed famous people will demonstrate this. No type is inherently "predisposed" for success or failure in life. A common error of socionics enthusiasts is to try to relate non-socionic traits to socionic types.
In addition, socionics does not view type structure as being so rigid that a person can change little in life. One's positive or negative thinking patterns, overall outlook on life, and emotional health are not tied to type and are quite flexible. Socionic type is one of the things — along with inborn physiological traits — that does not change, even if outward behavior, emotional states, and attitudes do. Socionic type describes psychic mechanisms so "deep" that they are difficult to gain a full awareness of, much less modify in some way (but then, why would you want to modify them??).
Intertype relations
The basic difference between socionics and other typologies is socionics' theory of intertype relations. Socionics is not a typology of personality, but a typology of perceptual traits that define one's relationships with others. Hence, we should not be surprised to see significant personality differences between individuals of the same socionic type — as long as we see that there is a similar pattern of intertype relations.
Intertype relations describe the nature of interaction and information interchange between two people at a close psychological distance by describing how partners' psychic functions interrelate. These socionic relationships range from very difficult and potentially harmful to one's self-realization to very beneficial and pleasant to the psyche. Intertype relations most influence one's informal relationships with others, where one chooses friends based on pleasure and mutual benefit (cooperation).
I like these couple paragraphs, because it describes TYPE as an inborn physiological thing... which would directly imply that of course, identical twins have the same personality type. Same genetics, same brain, etc.
The 2nd part that I underlined and bolded also acknowledges that identical twins' personalities can become vastly different, despite being the same type.
Moreover, if it's assumed that your base way of interacting with others, your type, is influenced mostly by your brain's predisposition... certainly twins would influence each other's growth, assuming their type is the same, in exactly the style you'd expect IDENTICAL relations to grow.
It'd be impossible for identical twins to be exactly alike. As Identicals, one would assume the teacher, one would assume the student, and they'd have a tendency to avoid each other in group settings, not just because they'd probably see their twin all the time, but because their identical twin doesn't have anything psychologically stimulating to provide. Avoidance in group settings means they naturally interact with different people, have a tendency to develop different friendships, and naturally grow their personalities in different directions.
So another question to ask is, of course identical twins can have DIFFERENT 'personalities' and interests, but how often do they actually have the SAME 'personalities'? Based upon their types being both Identicals.
Thoughts about any of this???