Difference between Each Socionics Information Element and MBTI function.
Information Elements:
http://www.the16types.info/vbulletin/content.php/280-Socionics-Information-Elements-Descriptions-by-Functions
MBTI cognitive functions:
Extraverted Sensing is what happens when you pay attention to what your 5 senses (touch, taste, smell, hearing, seeing) are telling you about the real world. It's a real time process that is happening now.
So if you pay attention to a sound coming from a bird just outside your door, that's your brain using it's extraverted sensing function to pay attention to the sound.
Introverted Sensing is when you remember the sound of a bird that you heard last week. Because you are paying attention to the memory of it in your mind, rather than the real live event.
Extraverted Intuiting is when you see several possible futures. It's when you do rapid fire brainstorm. It's when you see connections and patterns between people and events.
Introverted Intuiting is when you get insights that seem to come from nowhere. It's when you have those "aha" moments.
Extraverted Thinking is making decisions about the external world using objective facts.
Introverted Thinking is making decisions based on data, categories, and theories inside your mind.
Extraverted Feeling is making decisions based on a value system that is concerned with the well being of people. These values are more global and cultural than personal.
Introverted Feeling is about making decisions based on your personal values and being concerned more with how things impact you personally than how the group is impacted.
some comparisons:
Si in MBTI is more about "the past" and "memories" while in socionics, Si is "the ability to internalize sensations and to experience them in full detail"
Se in MBTI is sensing the environment via 5 senses, without much force on objects or people, which is more like the socionics Si, Se in socionics is ability to attain high level of awareness of the physical aspects of one's reality, to know how much physical force or power is latent or required, to be able to accurately estimate properties of material sort. It gives one the ability to influence, bend, and push concrete situations and people in order to achieve such an object, rather than to subjectively assess the situation one is in.
and things like that.
I found this link which is slightly related to the topic but not helpful: http://www.the16types.info/vbulletin...onics-and-MBTI
Also about the general definition of information aspects and cognitive functions, what are the key differences?