Beta-Delta Quadra Relations and Interaction Examples

[moredhel]

My life is full of beta's at the moment. I'm particularly fond of the extingisher relationship (introvert/extrovert functions are reversed) my best friend is an LSI and I find we add a lot to each others understanding. Another good friend of mine is an SLE and I think we get along really well.

I find I conflict quite easily with EIE's they are way too loud and passionate, IEI's are my conflictor and I don't get along with them 1on1 but they arn't too bad in a group situation.

I found up until recently I never understood betas, they are almost the social and romantic opposites of us deltas. I never got how in a house full a betas everything was so passionate and all these sexual encounters were going on. However they can be excellent and exciting friends, particulalry now that I understand them and can view their more obscure behaviour objectivly.

[Nevero]

They mix fine for as long as they don't realize that they are beta and delta. After they will blame their flaws on being of opposing quadra.

[nanashi]

Hmm...that's a good question actually . I think it was more of a side effect of just learning to type people and I've been lucky enough to encounter quite a few ESFps since I started learning about Socionics. I tend to speed-type people also, that is make an early guess about their type and see how it plays out (part of this is based on resemblance to people I've typed previously, which is usually accurate, but not always). But yeah, I think learning to identify particular things which stand out from different types and things like that can help. I think ultimately it's experience more than anything which can help you. Typing's a skill like any other; the more you practice the better you get at it. And just keep in mind that it's possible for someone of any type to be in any situation, even though some types are less likely to be in certain places than others.

An example of the speed-typing thing I mentioned is that last Monday when I went shopping, when I went to the checkout, the girl at the till looked similar to my ESFp ex, which made me wonder if she might be ESFp also. She was quite talkative, although it seemed like she was just saying what was on her mind rather than thinking it through; i.e. talking on impulse as it were. That and I was pretty stressed out from work that day and somehow in that short space of time she managed to cheer me up. So I left the encounter thinking "Yep, she was ESFp". It's very little information to go on, but I'm still confident enough to say that based on that information and my gut feeling about the whole thing, I'm confident that it was an ESFp I'd spoken to then. It's a largely intuitive thing really, but it can work if you practice it enough. Obviously you won't have 100% accuracy, but the more you do it the more accurate you get. But I'm rambling, so I shall stop myself now

I do the same thing speed-typing EXACTLY

[Pa3s]

[Suz]

anybody can get along fine as long as you dont get close enough to start hitting each other's POLRs and insulting each other's creative functions and hidden agendas with either incompetence or devaluing.

If you're just chatting and playing a game, and havent had the opportunity to do the above, the negative intertype dynamics may not have had a chance to manifest.