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ᴘᴀʀᴛ 2: ɪɴꜰᴏʀᴍᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴀꜱᴘᴇᴄᴛꜱ & ᴇʟᴇᴍᴇɴᴛꜱ


ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛꜱ


According to Augusta's theory of Socionics, Information Aspects are categories of external information people may encounter, they theoretically exist outside of our heads.

Information Elements are our corresponding mental reflections of Information Aspects, they're the psychic modules through which we process those different kinds of information.

Although they correspond to each other and are denoted using the same symbols, they are two different concepts. Information Aspects and Elements are different from the cognitive functions used in MBTI.

ᴱˡᵉᵐᵉⁿᵗ ᴰⁱᶜʰᵒᵗᵒᵐⁱᵉˢ

ˢᵗᵃᵗⁱᶜ/ᴰʸⁿᵃᵐⁱᶜ

Static information is discrete and about things that change abruptly:

Ne : discrete temporal phases and sets of discrete alternatives

Ti : discrete logical and structural dependencies between states of affairs.

Se : discrete spatial boundaries that delineate territory and control.

Fi : discrete types of interpersonal relationships, such as “friend” or “enemy”.

Dynamic information is continuous and about things that are in constant fluctuation:

Si : one’s continuous physical exchanges with one’s environment.

Fe : the continuous excitations in people’s psychological states.

Ni : the continuous evolution of things over time.

Te : the continuous incoming stream of objective facts about the world.

ᴱˣᵗᵉʳⁿᵃˡ/ᴵⁿᵗᵉʳⁿᵃˡ

External - More specific and implicit, includes sensory and logical information

Internal - More general and interpretive, includes intuitive and ethical information

ᴵⁿᶠᵒʳᵐᵃᵗⁱᵒⁿ ᴹᵉᵗᵃᵇᵒˡⁱˢᵐ ᴱˡᵉᵐᵉⁿᵗˢ

ᴱˣᵗʳᵃᵛᵉʳᵗᵉᵈ ᴱᵗʰⁱᶜˢ (ᴱᵐᵒᵗⁱᵒⁿˢ,ᶠᵉ)

Dichotomies: Extroverted, Rational, Dynamic, Internal

  • "Perceives information about processes taking place in objects — first of all, emotional processes that are taking place in people, their excitation or subduedness, and their moods. This perceptual element implies the ability to know what excites people, and what suppresses them. It defines a person’s ability or inability to control his emotional state, and also the emotional states of other people."
  • "Fe is generally associated with the ability to recognize and convey (i.e. make others experience) passions, moods, and emotional states, generate excitement, liveliness, and feelings, get emotionally involved in activities and emotionally involve others, recognize and describe emotional interaction between people and groups, and build a sense of community and emotional unity." - Source

Themes: emotional atmosphere, romanticism, cooperation, treatment, qualitative judgement of behavior, sympathy, ethical estimations of observable actions, “ethics of actions”

ᴱˣᵗʳᵃᵛᵉʳᵗᵉᵈ ᴸᵒᵍⁱᶜ (ᴾʳᵃᵍᵐᵃᵗⁱˢᵐ,ᵀᵉ)

Dichotomies: Extroverted, Rational, Dynamic, External

  • "Perceives information about animate and inanimate objects’ physical activity, deeds, and actions/activities. This perception provides the ability to make sense of what is going on. It defines the awareness of and ability or inability to think up ways of doing things, distinguish rational actions from irrational ones, and the ability or inability to direct others’ work."
  • "Extroverted logic deals with the external activity of objects, i.e the how, what and where of events, activity or work, behavior, algorithms, movement, and actions. The how, what and where of events would be the external activity of events, activity or work would be the external activity of a machine or individual(s) and algorithms describe the external activity of objects. Since Te perceives objective, factual information outside the subject (external activity) and analyzes the rationale and functionality of what is happening or being done or said." - Source

Themes: efficiency, method, mechanism, knowledge, work, reason in motion, direction of activity into its most logical course of action, “logic of actions”, utilitarianism, expediency, benefit

ᴱˣᵗʳᵃᵛᵉʳᵗᵉᵈ ˢᵉⁿˢᵃᵗⁱᵒⁿ (ᶠᵒʳᶜᵉ, ˢᵉ)

Dichotomies: Extroverted, Irrational, Static, External

  • "Perceives information about what might be called objects’ “kinetic energy” — for example, information about how organized/mobilized a person is, his physical energy and power, and his ability to make use of his willpower or position and exercise his will in opposition to others’. This perception implies the ability to tell what reserves of “kinetic energy” people have and how useful they can be in getting things done. It defines the individual’s ability or inability to exercise his willpower and energy in opposition to the will and energy of other people."
  • "Se includes the ability to know how much power, force, or influence is latent or required." - Source

Themes: sensing of immediate static qualities of objects, sensing of immediate reality, external appearance, texture, form, static objects, impact, direct physical effect, span, extent, scope

ᴱˣᵗʳᵃᵛᵉʳᵗᵉᵈ ᴵⁿᵗᵘⁱᵗⁱᵒⁿ (ᴵᵈᵉᵃˢ,ᴺᵉ)

Dichotomies: Extroverted, Irrational, Static, Internal

  • "Perceives information about objects’ potential energy — for example, information about the physical and mental abilities and potential of a person. This perception grants the ability to understand the structure of objects and phenomena and grasp their inner content. This element determines a person’s ability or inability to see the real potential energy of one’s surroundings."
  • "Ne is generally associated with the ability to recognize possibilities, create new opportunities and new beginnings, recognize talent and natural propensities in others, reconcile differing perspectives and viewpoints, rapidly generate ideas, and be led by one’s intellectual curiosity and stimulate curiosity in others." - Source

Themes: potential, permutation, isomorphism, semblance, essence, uncertainty, the unknown, opening up new “windows” and bringing up new possibilities in conversation, seeing opportunities, chance, being the first, refreshing informational suddenness, diversity of interests and involvements

ᴵⁿᵗʳᵒᵛᵉʳᵗᵉᵈ ᴱᵗʰⁱᶜˢ (ᴿᵉˡᵃᵗⁱᵒⁿˢ,ᶠⁱ)

Dichotomies: Introverted, Rational, Static, Internal

  • "This is the subjective relationship between two carriers of potential or kinetic energy that shows the level of attraction (or repulsion) between one object or subject and another object or subject. Thanks to this IM element a person feels which objects attract him and which repel him. You might say that this perceptual element conveys information about objects’ need or lack of need of each other and about the presence or absence of mutual or one-way needs."
  • "Includes feelings of like and dislike, love and hatred, the desire to obtain some thing/object, etc., and greed or the absence of greed. The higher feelings of this kind can be called ethical, because relationships between people’s needs are mainly regulated by ethical normals." - Source

Themes: internal harmony, resonance or dissonance of personal sentiments, sympathy, pity, compassion, support, condemnation, judgement, positive and negative emotional space

ᴵⁿᵗʳᵒᵛᵉʳᵗᵉᵈ ᴸᵒᵍⁱᶜ (ᴸᵃʷˢ,ᵀⁱ)

Dichotomies: Introverted, Rational, Static, External

  • "We call ‘logical’ those feelings that arise from the process of comparing one object to another on the basis of some objective criteria — for example, a sense of distance, weight, volume, worth, strength, quality, etc. These are feelings of objective evaluation, which in certain situations help to activate or passivate the person who experiences them. Incoming information is recognized by such an individual as a sense of objects’ proper or improper correlation and proportion, a sense of balance or imbalance between the objects, or a sense of understanding or lack of understanding of the advantages of one object over another. This also includes all feelings that result from knowing or not knowing objects and phenomena — curiosity, respect, fear, and a sense of the logicalness or illogicalness of things, as well as a sense of one’s own power or powerlessness before different objects."
  • "All these feelings we shall call logical. Their sum is a person’s sense of logic, which is developed to different extents in different people. We might say that logical feelings convey information about presence or lack of knowledge, comparability and incomparability, and the presence or lack of balance between them, as well as about the space and location of object within it. These feelings are called objective because they do not take into consideration the interests and needs of the person him/herself, but only such correlations of objective qualities. This perceptual element determines a person’s ability or inability to see the objective, logical relations between objects or their components."
  • "Generally associated with the ability to recognize logical consistency and correctness, generate and apply classifications and systems, organize systematic and conceptual understanding, see logical connections between things (including logical similarities, differences, and correlations) by means of instinctive feelings of validity, symmetry, and even beauty. It is like common sense, in that it builds on one’s expectations of reality, through a somewhat personal, though explicable, understanding of general truths and how they are manifested." - Source

Themes: structure, analysis, coherence, consistency, cogency, accordance, match, commensurability, understanding, order, or the lack of thereof

ᴵⁿᵗʳᵒᵛᵉʳᵗᵉᵈ ˢᵉⁿˢᵃᵗⁱᵒⁿ (ˢᵉⁿˢᵉˢ,ˢⁱ)

Dichotomies: Introverted, Irrational, Dynamic, External

  • "This element perceives information about how processes are reflected by one’s internal state. This includes the sense of one’s own condition and the sensations of people evoked by this interdependence. Interaction in space is nothing more than a reflection of one object in another. Objects reflect in other objects, evoking certain sensations in one another. Such an individual perceives external information in form of sensations evoked by ongoing events. "
  • "Si is associated with the ability to internalize sensations and to experience them in full detail. Si focuses on tangible, direct (external) connections (introverted) between processes (dynamic) happening in one time, i.e. the physical, sensual experience of interactions between objects. This leads to an awareness of internal tangible physical states and how various physical fluctuations or substances are directly transferred between objects, such as motion, temperature, or dirtiness. The awareness of these tangible physical processes consequently leads to an awareness of health, or an optimum balance with one’s environment. The individual physical reaction to concrete surroundings is main way we perceive and define aesthetics, comfort, convenience, and pleasure."- Source

Themes: homeostasis, continuity, smoothness, flow, satisfaction, aesthetics, quality of life, pleasure, relaxation, convenience, quality

ᴵⁿᵗʳᵒᵛᵉʳᵗᵉᵈ ᴵⁿᵗᵘⁱᵗⁱᵒⁿ (ᵀⁱᵐᵉ,ᴺⁱ)

Dichotomies: Introverted, Irrational, Dynamic, Internal

  • "This perceptual element provides information about the sequence of events and people’s deeds, about their cause and effect relationship, and about participants’ attitudes towards this — that is, about people’s feelings that these relationships engender. Such an individual perceives information from without as feelings about the future, past, and present. For example, a sense of hurriedness, calmness, or heatedness, a sense of timeliness or prematureness, a sense of proper or improper life rhythm, a sense of impending danger or safety, anticipation, fear of being late, a sense of seeing the future, anxiety about what lies ahead, and so forth."
  • "This perceptual element defines a person’s ability or inability to forecast and plan for the future, evade all sorts of troubles, avoid taking wrong actions, and learn from past experience."
  • "Ni is generally associated with the ability to recognize the unfolding of processes over time (how one event leads to another), have visions of the past and future, develop mental imagery, and see intangible hints of relationships between processes or objects." - Source

Themes: development over time, historicity, cause and effect, consequences, repetition, archetypal themes and examples, looking for causes in history or the past, past-future forecasting of event dynamics, rhythm, delay or act-now, past-turned imagination


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