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There is a socionics club at Boston University. This is a new club created October 2007. It is open for all undergraduate Boston University students. This club plans to discuss the theory, hold events, get guest speakers, and possibly a dating service. Some other possiblilites with other Boston University clubs include joining up with the People Watching club to test VI skills and having the various cultural clubs at BU take the test to test the idea that culture plays a role in personality development.

[edit] Meeting in February, 2008

The meeting took place on the weekend of Feb. 2-3 following a talk by Rick at Boston University on the 1st at the College of Arts & Science in room 203 at 5pm (Friday, February 1st).

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[edit] Participants

• liveandletlive
• Rick
• MysticSonic
• Niffweed17
• reyn-til-runa
• Ritella

[edit] Report

On Friday about 12 to 15 people were present at Rick's talk at the university, which lasted for over 2.5 hours and a few claim was interesting. Most of the audience were members of the club formed by Danielle and were somewhat familiar with socionics, but had just started learning about the theory. The talk provided a broad overview of socionics with many examples of different categories and socionic phenomena. Here is a brief outline:

Introduction - Jungian beginnings of socionics - Psychic functions - The leading function, creative function, vulnerable, suggestive, and others - The socionic model of the psyche - Dichotomies - Intertype relations (“information interaction”) - Quadras - Applying socionics - Plus/minus block switches

On Saturday and Sunday, and briefly on Monday, the above six participants got together in town and combined talking with walking around and eating and drinking. There were productive discussions about how people see things and why they do the things they do, as well as interesting activities where people were put in pairs and had to perform different tasks together. Rick also showed participants photographs of people of different types to see if they could guess their types based on appearance alone, then answered any questions they had about the person before participants wrote down a final type version. As always, the guesses were better than chance, but not drastically so. Sunday evening the group went to a tex-mex restaurant and those who wanted to watch the Superbowl got the chance.

The group came to the unanimous conclusion that plus-minus block switches represent the new wave of socionics and that all the rest of it is now officially bullshit.