Temperament

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A temperament is a small group of four types that share the same two traits on the extroversion / introversion and irrational / rational dichotomies. The same four intertype relations exist between the types of any temperament: identity, business, super-ego, and kindred.

Augusta did not originally relate socionic types to different temperaments, but numerous socionists after her have. Some have used the four classical temperaments (melancholic, choleric, sanguine, and phlegmatic), while others (notably Gulenko) have created their own temperament concepts. Today Gulenko's temperament system is the most well-known in socionics:

• EP temperament (Flexible-maneuvering)
• EJ temperament (Linear-insistent)
• IP temperament (Receptive-adaptive)
• IJ temperament (Balanced-stable)

It should be noted that temperament has a different meaning than in psychology. The concept of temperament is much better developed in psychology. Compared to vague and abstract socionic concepts of temperament, the temperament in psychology takes on a much more concrete and likely more useful meaning.

Nevertheless, socionic temperaments play an important role in recognizing similarities between types that are all in different quadras and clubs.

[edit] See also

• Temperament (psychology)