A composite of things written by Varlawend, Ryan, and Gulenko.
Function signs
+Fe: Ethics of Positive Emotions (Joy)
- straightforward emotions like excitement, happiness, enthusiasm, freely gives hospitality, is made from organic emotions
- Overall theme: maximizing positive emotions
- +E: Rejoice, show enthusiasm, be in a good mood, behave openly and friendly. Showing hospitality and enjoying life.
-Fe: Ethics of Negative and Dramatic Emotions (Indignation)
- anguish, indignation, dramatizations, sarcasm, mockery, ridicule, escalation of conflict, catharsis, more indirect expression of emotions through art and poetry
- Overall theme: minimizing negative effect of emotions by purging them
- -E: To resent, to rebel, to worry, to ridicule, to tense and heat the emotional situation.
+Te: Business Logic of Investment (Enterprises)
- investing for profit, exchanging, responding to momentary demands, valuing profit over utility, accumulating more utilities and resources, responding quickly to demand, taking financial risks, spending resources
- Overall theme: maximizing usage and amount of resources
- +P: To invest, to profit, to put profit above usefulness, to exchange, to raise the price, to constantly update the product, to respond quickly to demand.
-Te: Business Logic of Saving and Frugality
- working efficiently, using resources frugally, valuing utility over profit, stockpiling resources, finding access to resources, productive logic, cost reduction, reducing interference and downtime in processes
- Overall theme: minimizing usage of resources
- -P: To work efficiently, to be economical, to use resources carefully, to work hard.
+Se: Power of Resistance and Rebellion
- resisting a stronger force by maneuvering and making alliances, defensive forces, seeking and defending allies, amasses as many allies as possible
- Overall theme: maximizing effect on another party
- +F To resist, not to obey, to join the coalition to withstand force; to be friends and enjoy the protection of the strong, to demand and be indignant at attempts to infringe upon their interests.
-Se: Power Sensing of Subordination (Commanding)
- building hierarchy, looking for vulnerabilities, proactively minimizing threats, being depended on
- Overall theme: minimizing others’ effects on you
- -F: To press on the weak points, put in dependence, build a hierarchy of strength and weakness.
+Ne: Intuition of Prospects (Opportunities)
- looking for new things, exploring, inventing, taking risks, showing and finding abilities, almost childlike curiosity, taking risks for the sake of an idea
- Overall theme: maximizing visibility and potentiality of possibilities
- +I To seek new, discover, invent, take risks, try, to be original, show abilities.
-Ne: Intuition of Alternatives
- looking for different things, setting yourself apart, looking at things from all sides, finding new things in old ideas, minimizing boredom, getting out of problems, not wasting time, making sure the potential of things and people aren’t wasted
- Overall theme: minimizing loss of potential
- -I: To search for the different, to find an exit, to avoid boredom, to turn to the reverse side, to notice the concealed, to interpret vice versa.
+Fi: Relationship Ethics of Forgiveness
- trust, give benefit of doubt, forgive, keep relationships intimate
- Overall theme: maximizing closeness with another
- +R: Trusting people, forgiving them, grieving, comforting, treating well.
-Fi: Relationship Ethics of Disapproval
- punishing bad behavior, being aloof and formal, holding grudges, being suspicious of intentions, keeping distance from bad or unknown people
- Overall theme: minimizing the effects of bad relationships
- -R: To keep a distance, not to trust, to condemn evil, to take offense.
+Ti: Logic of Design and Structure (Engineering)
- designing, reading instructions, doing what works, doing things “properly,” step-by-step, following rules, legality, linear logic (if X, then Y), using evidence to support logic
- Overall theme: maximizing details to form a complex structure
- +L: To fix the worked-out structure in a law or formula, to consider other structures as incorrect, to justify the only correct decision, to stubbornly follow one’s rules, to understand in detail the drawings or instructions. Linear or flat logic. This is the logic of strict disjunction (or-or). This is the logic of informational socionics.
-Ti: Logic of Analysis
- finding order in chaos, parallel logic, multi-leveled logic with contradictions, explaining complicated issues, may have contradictions and paradoxes, looking at alternatives, multidirectional, breaking apart justifications and assumptions with different viewpoints
- Overall theme: minimizing the unexplained
- -L: Fractality means fragmentation and scalability. It is a logic that sees order even in chaos and admits several schemes for describing the same object. It is the logic of contradictions and paradoxes, volumetric and polymorphic logic. Logic of non-strict disjunction (and – or). This is the logic of the energetical (synergetic) socionics.
| Serial logic +L | Parallel logic -L |
|---|---|
| -> -> | -> -> |
| Strict, one after another | Alternatives, parallel |
| No switching, no backtracking | No discarding of branches, refocuses every now and then |
| If A then B, if B then C | No long chains |
+Si: Sensation of Comfort
- creating and maintaining a comfortable environment, improving quality of experiences, focusing on health
- Overall theme: maximizing comfort
- +S: To be placed conveniently, to adjust the environment for one’s self, to make your territory autonomous.
-Si: Sensation of Discomfort
- treating ailments, resolving everyday discomforts, making two extremes come together (mediation)
- Overall theme: minimizing discomfort
- -S: This means treating the disease or eliminating discomfort in the home, and also to survive during discomfort. One who can walk away from unpleasant extremes and occupy the golden mean.
+Ni: Intuition of the Future
- thinking ahead, hoping for a good outcome, dreaming (not the sleep kind), progressing forwards, overcoming anxieties through hope, aspirations
- Overall theme: maximizing positive outcomes
- +T: Thinking about the future, believing in a good outcome, hoping, dreaming, transferring the future to the past.
-Ni: Intuition of the Past
- thinking of the past, remembering past mistakes, mitigating future errors, seeing hidden connections, worrying, anxiety, nervousness, avoiding consequences, taking caution, warning others, knowing the flow of the past into the future
- Overall theme: minimizing possible risks and vulnerabilities
- -T: To think about the past, remember mistakes, to fear, to warn, to extrapolate (transfer the past to the future).
Functions as behavioural reactions
SHS is a very behaviorally oriented system. A function is defined as a specialized reaction of the psyche to a stimulus.
Power sensorics (F) is a mental function that is responsible for the excitability and release of accumulated aggression.
Sensory comfort (S) – the function of the psyche, which is responsible for the substantive care for the needs of the body – such as food, sleep, clothing, living conditions, etc.
The ethics of emotions (E) – the function of the psyche, forming expressive and demonstrative behavior.
Relationship ethics (R) – the function of the psyche that forms a modest and responsive behavior.
Intuition of opportunities (I) – the function of the psyche, which is expressed in risky and non-standard behavior.
Intuition of time (T) is the function of the psyche that forms expectant and thoughtful behavior.
Business logic (P) – the function of the psyche, which manifests itself in agile, persistent and enduring behavior.
Structural logic (L) – the function of the psyche, which manifests itself in a calm, reliable and pedantic behavior.
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