LSE+IEI

JOINTLY ACKNOWLEDGED TRAITS:

  1. I like to mentally search for who’s to blame.
  2. In the realm of imagination, I have a very focused “inner” mental gaze: any object I think about, I can hold in my attention for a long time and without interruption, while also tracking all the transformations it undergoes over time.
  3. If you slowly move your palm away from yourself, it seems that its visible size almost doesn’t change.
  4. I easily fall asleep to the quiet mumbling sound of a TV.
  5. More than once I have found myself infected by the festive or angry emotions of a crowd.
  6. In my handwriting, I often write the lowercase letter “и” like “п,” meaning that the connecting arches between the strokes tend to curve upward rather than downward.
  7. I would enjoy sewing clothes, drawing cartoons, or working as a florist - arranging bouquets.
  8. I like to mentally investigate the hidden motives behind long-past historical events, to dig into the most probable versions of those distant events and uncover their true mechanisms.
  9. I understand well those despotic kings who punished messengers bearing bad news.
  10. Chewing gum or chewy candies helps me think in a focused way.
  11. I usually begin work with small details and the simplest tasks.
  12. My memory constantly holds and “replays” the entire temporal chain of recent facts, events, and occurrences.

JOINTLY REJECTED TRAITS:
13. I am better than most at clearly and intelligibly laying out flawless chains of reasoning before an audience.
14. If there’s reason to reproach a colleague, I’ll definitely do it - in front of witnesses.
15. Suppose thirty unrelated orphans constantly receive food aid from your charity - 24 parcels per month for each. Due to lack of funds, you must make cutbacks, and for several accounting reasons you face the following choice: either underdeliver 16 parcels per month to one randomly chosen orphan (the others remain unchanged), or underdeliver 9 parcels per month to two orphans at once (the others also remain unchanged, but the total reduction in aid, as you understand, will be larger - 18 parcels instead of 16). Which option do you choose? If the first, mark “1.” If the second, mark “5.”
16. I always feel clearly the boundary between my own personality and other people.
17. I like instructing my interlocutors with recipes for correct - that is, advantageous - behavior in life, because I understand the true “truth of life” better than they do, and it is much more materialistic and down-to-earth than bookish people think.
18. My natural hair color is rather dark than light.
19. When reading, I usually skip over detailed descriptions of landscapes (for example, what follows what, how exactly it looks, what grows where and how, etc.); I glance over such descriptions quickly, without trying to visualize them or think deeply about them.
20. Regarding my gastrointestinal tract, I tend to have constipation more often than loose or mushy stool.
21. Attempts to influence me not by persuasion but by orders and coercive pressure almost always cause in me a strong or even angry inner protest.
22. I quickly and accurately catch, by ear, all the thoughts that my interlocutor tries to squeeze into their speech.
23. I often feel thirsty.
24. By the middle of a lesson or lecture, my attention is usually more concentrated than at the beginning.

So: