IEE+LSI

JOINTLY ACCEPTED TRAITS:

1. I am always spontaneous in my behavior; it’s hard to offend or hurt me.
2. It’s true that I am practically never afraid of anything.
3. I can endure life’s hardships better than most.
4. I can adapt to any established state of affairs.
5. In most collective situations, I am quite satisfied with my status and my relationships with other members of the group.
6. I can adapt to any living conditions, even difficult and complicated ones - and even under them, I know how to get enjoyment from life.
7. I think that in any group I can orient myself and achieve for myself an unobtrusive but advantageous and “key” position.
8. I always feel myself to be part of a larger human whole - people, nation, state, collective.
9. Economic growth should not come at the expense of the feeling of the state’s own greatness.
10. To be a patriot means to defend your country from any accusations.
11. Today is always more important to me than yesterday or tomorrow.

JOINTLY REJECTED TRAITS:
12. I often have a sad mood.
13. In childhood I had a dreamy and anxiously suspicious character.
14. I often experience long periods of despair and hopelessness.
15. Frequent bouts of anxiety are common for me.
16. There are situations that, purely on a physiological level and automatically, cause me strong fear that cannot be resisted.
17. I often, almost daily, face unpleasant dangers.
18. I often have some kind of anxious thoughts.
19. I am more touchy, irritable, and quick-tempered than others.
20. There have been fears in my life that I experienced long ago, but even now, when some element in my surroundings accidentally repeats and reminds me of that experience, I again feel my heart racing and fear returning.
21. Over the past month, I have more than once felt strong fear.
22. I am easily offended and often feel hurt.
23. I always get very upset and lose my composure over any loss.
24. Almost every week something happens that later makes me suffer from belated regrets.
25. I often experience fear or anxiety.
26. I often “get stuck” on certain thoughts or worries that haunt me for a long time.
27. I often feel anxious and tense.
28. It’s easy to provoke irritation or bad mood in me.
29. I greatly lack communication with mutual understanding and mutual care.
30. I am more for reducing the functions and rights of the state in relation to citizens than for expanding them.
31. Many state functions in many countries today are clearly redundant.
32. I tolerate heat better than cold.

So:

• Both types are insensitive, stress-resistant; fear and anxiety are not characteristic of them.
• Both easily adapt in a collective.
• They need a collective to feel comfortable.
• They tend to exaggerate the positive role of the state and broad governmental functions (although they do this, perhaps, for different reasons and motives - IEE most often out of imperial romanticism and hope for state paternalism, while at the same time opposing discipline and most state repressive functions).
• They live more in the present day.
• They tolerate heat poorly.

The common traits of IEE and LSI create prerequisites for them to simultaneously be part of some informal group (for example, a youth street gang), where they can quite successfully interact at not-too-close a distance, though performing different tasks. Most likely, they will jointly vote for “bold” decisions in the actions of such a group. Both will remain loyal to the collective they have joined. Most likely, they will also share consensus on the need for frequent airing of the room they are both in, and on a desirable (not too high) temperature in it.