Fe, ethics of emotions (suggestion of attraction)

Keywords: attraction, involvement, inducement, excitement, embellishment, expressiveness, seduction, emotions, moods, affects, passion, resonance, agitation

Definitions:
Fe (in general): The ability, through universally attractive images (connected to the basic emotions of fear and love), to stimulate others into activities that satisfy the interest of the activator
Base Fe: Striving and ability to draw the attention of others to oneself, one's needs, interests and values through one's activity
Creative Fe: Striving and ability to be pleasant for others, to use their favor to avoid one's own activity

Typical trait components of Fe:
Fe + Ethics = Strong inner emotionality, intense reactions of fright, surprise, admiration
Fe + Ascending = Preference for strong and vivid emotions, sharply arising and instantly evoking a deep inner response
Fe + Extroversion = Likes to attract attention through expressive behavior
Fe + Rationality = Finds beauty and harmony in order; worries a lot about possible disruption of plans; emotional breakdowns are typical in response to unexpected damage and missed deadlines
Fe + Dynamics = Seeks emotional support, desire to be liked

Atypical trait components of Fe:
Fe + Logic = Radicalism of evaluations and decisions
Fe + Descending = Attention to others’ intonations and facial expressions; desire to discuss personal moods, sympathies, and relationships of people of interest within the group.
Fe + Introversion = Strong inner agitation, hindering quick decision-making
Fe + Irrationality = Impulsive actions contrary to common sense
Fe + Statics = Ideologization, capability for heroic acts, self-sacrifice

Typical manifestations of combining Fe with other functions:
Sum of two functions:
Fe + Fi = Impressionability, emotional responsiveness to the situation, affective empathy (easily projects the experiences of others onto oneself) (ESE+EIE+ESI+EII)
Fe + Ti = Formation of super-valued ideas by emotionally "inflating" their subjective significance (ESE+EIE+LII+LSI)
Fe + Te = Consistently fast pace of social communication (ESE+EIE+LIE+LSE)
Fe + Ne = Likes to talk, exchange information, ask questions
Fe + Se = Self-confidence in social situations (confident in being liked by others)
Fe + Ni = Anxious mood, eager to share their anxiety
Fe + Si = Needs sympathy and social “stroking” from others
Fe + Qi = Empathy-fantasy (able to love an imaginary image, empathize with an imaginary hero)
Fe + Di = Tendency to be infected by the emotions of others, to synchronize with the crowd
Fe + Qe = Wants to be liked, popular, respected and loved
Fe + De = Wants to feel involved in the lives of others

Sum of three functions:
Fe + Si + Qe = Ability to create a fashionable self-image, likes compliments
Fe + Si + De = Likes to be in company, likes communication, discussing each other's problems
Fe + Ni + Qe = Emotional instability, nervousness, demonstrativeness, “theatricality” of emotions shown
Fe + Ni + De = Emotional charm, ability to charm and seduce by playing on emotions

Difference of functions:
Fe - Te = Likes to decorate reality, unproductively spends resources on it (ESE+EIE+SEI+IEI)
Fe - TI = Emotional expressiveness, vividness (ESE+EIE+SEE+IEE)
Fe - Fi = Passionarity, preference for the language of strong emotions (ESE+EIE+ILE+SLE)
Fe - Ne = Intolerance of unfamiliar views differing from one's own
Fe - Se = Timidity
Fe - Ni = Needs regular exchanges of signs of attention, willing to spend time searching for gifts
Fe - Si = Willing to endure discomfort for the sake of attracting attention - "beauty requires sacrifice"
Fe - Qi = lack of emotional sincerity and integrity even in private, emotions are just a tool and a plaything for them
Fe - Di = Dependence of emotions on well-being, capriciousness
Fe - Qe = Cares not only about their own feelings, but also about the feelings of others
Fe - De = Concerned with various wrongs, even those that do not affect them directly.

Conclusions.
Fe as a function is originally and fundamentally connected with attracting partners of the opposite sex. In pre-social times, Fe gravitated towards the male sex and was apparently strictly antagonistic to Ti - inasmuch as it was the male who had to prove to the female the quality of his genes by demonstrating various behavioral extravagances, the presence of which often reduced his viability in the external environment.
However, in social species, and especially humans, there has apparently been an inversion of the poles of this trait in terms of attachment to biological sex - so that today Fe is the most feminine of all functions. How did this happen? Let us outline a number of evolutionary mechanisms potentially capable of leading to such an inversion.
Firstly, under conditions of fierce competition between groups, it is mainly men who die in fights. Those who remain increase their social status and can form their own personal harem, and the higher the status and authority of the dominant male (“alpha male”), the larger the harem he may have. Thus, it was precisely the authority and power of the leader that became the main resource, over which the women of his harem began to compete, and in order to obtain the role of “beloved wife,” they began to perfect their methods of seduction.
Secondly, a situation is possible where the survival of the group in harsh natural conditions begins to critically depend on the talent of its hunters and trackers. Since these are more often men, women also find themselves in a dependent situation and begin to ask for food and resources in exchange for sex, developing their attractiveness for men.
Thus, we see that in the case of a social species (with developed gender specialization), Fe not only “changes sex”, but also changes its relation with Ti from antagonistic to complementary - due to the fact that the harsher the external conditions, the stronger natural selection becomes among the part of the group that contacts the external environment (that is, predominantly the male part), and the stronger the competition for its surviving representatives.
Moreover, mechanisms of such inversion are possible even without increased intragroup competition (but more on this later).

It is also reasonable to ask: is Fe related to such forms of behavior as alarm cries (in humans: hysteria) and food cries (in humans: cries of delight)? Obviously, both of these phenomena are evolutionarily more recent than sexual behavior, since they necessarily presuppose the presence of a group to which the call is directed. Both require emotional disinhibition associated with strong Fe, and if in the case of the alarm cry the combination Fe+Ni+Qe is at work (attracting attention + fear + drive for self-preservation), then in the case of the food cry the combinations Fe+Si+De or Fe+Ne+De work (attracting attention + promise of pleasure + willingness to altruistically share with an indefinitely wide circle of people).
And although an individual’s ability to attract attention in this way is not directly related to sexual behavior (but more to group behavior, to the balance of the third functions), nevertheless, demonstrative behavior itself already increases the chances of sexual success - simply because a more expressive individual more often gets into the focus of someone’s attention, and therefore also more often into the focus of the opposite sex; and mere loudness, apparently, may be a marker of expressiveness of another kind, which is also sexually attractive.

Thus, extraverted (base) Fe by its activity triggers competition for sexual partners whose sex and other qualities are more valuable resources in a given situation. Therefore, base Fe is especially important at the stage of initial partner attraction.
Introverted (creative) Fe manifests itself more in a situation when the family is already formed and it is necessary to keep the breadwinner partner close.
It should be noted here that Fi seems to have nothing to do with this. Fi is a function of caring for children and the weak from the position of “strong” will (in socionics - a sign of statics), whereas Fe is more connected with sex, being a petitioning function, adapting to the “fashionable” tastes of the majority of representatives of the stronger sex (adaptation - a sign of dynamics).

Summarizing all of the above, the author concludes that the function Fe from a biosocial point of view can be defined as a complex of properties of the individual, evolutionarily interconnected with STRONG SEXUAL SELECTION in the population (the active role of Fe - enhancement of sexual selection in the population, and its passive role - association with qualities that give an advantage in a situation of strong sexual selection).