LSE vs ESE
Markers that LSE mostly agrees with, while ESE mostly disagrees:
- In my reasoning, I am always consistent and rely on facts, not emotions.
- When making decisions, I do without emotions, considering only necessity and benefit.
- I use facts and reason more often than feelings.
- Knowledge and facts usually occupy me much more than beauty and feelings.
- I never talk about my feelings - I just don't know how.
- I often think over, weigh, and evaluate something with a cold mind.
- It is difficult for me to talk about my feelings and experiences because I do not understand them well - perhaps I almost never have anything similar to what is called anger, sadness, or strong joy.
- If I rewatch a film, it is not to relive the same emotions (they can never be repeated) but to understand the plot's twists in more detail that I did not understand the first time.
- I almost never empathize with the problems of film characters - after all, it's all fake.
- I always demand any statement to be confirmed with a source.
- I am devoid of excessive sentimentality.
- I avoid any strong emotions and experiences.
- My emotions are "large-block" - my attention quickly dissipates from having to delve into emotional nuances and details.
- When making decisions, I almost always soberly guide by calculation and scientific knowledge.
- By nature, I am a kind person, but I put business above personal interests and relationships.
- I can handle everything independently without anyone's help.
- My logical chains in reasoning are always flawless and precise.
- Wishing good to others, I more often bet on skepticism rather than hope.
- News or science and technology TV programs are always more interesting to me than singers or any funny shows with comedians.
- To be honest, I do not feel (and have not felt before) particularly strong attachment to either my parents or any romantic partners.
- I have more logic and rationality than other people.
- I have a purely scientific worldview, alien to any magic or religion.
- When telling something to people, I become more logical and "dry" than usual.
- I generally find it difficult to describe the feelings and emotional experiences of other people in words.
- I understand economic laws of society better than many.
- I try to manage others not through volitional pressure but using economic methods.
- I live to depend on no one.
- The strongest feelings I experience are when the food is delicious; I poorly understand other feelings.
- I would like professions such as a train locomotive driver or a supply manager in a manufacturing firm.
- My usual speech is characterized by a "telegraphic style": short and terse sentences, often consisting of nouns only ("Night. Street. Lamp. Pharmacy. Dark.", etc.).
- I can work for many hours a day without getting distracted or losing interest.
- I am more capable of strong friendship than love.
- True, I am never surprised.
- When talking, my head is usually strictly still - I don't nod, play with my eyebrows, or twist my neck (there is no such need).
- I am a person of clearly defined opinions, always knowing exactly what is right and what is wrong.
- I surpass many in my ability to make correct, beneficial decisions.
- I dislike any poetry; its imagery is alien to me. I see no point in attributing properties of one object to a completely different object - for example, calling grass silky (it's not silky), calling the sky deep (a well can be deep, not the sky), or comparing hair to the sun and eyes to stars. It's all absurd and incomprehensible.
- I rarely see a subject for debate seriously, as I am initially convinced of my correctness - it always turns out that way, by the way, even if the other side continues to stand their ground.
- Serious people are those who control their emotional states.
- Being an ethnographer would be more interesting to me than being a musician.
- I more often become irritated than sympathetic when I see someone in tears.
- I always prefer even emotions in those around me, without "outbursts."
- If I don't need anything from a person, showing clear sympathies to them is tactlessness, indecency, and bad manners.
- I have trouble pronouncing the sound "U-uuu..." for a long and drawn-out time.
- I value not people's sympathies, which can be earned, but rather a stable system of necessary acquaintances and connections.
- True, I never buy anything sold even slightly above its real price - it's just disgusting.
- I have a high and almost straight, rising forehead.
- True, I don't like cooking.
- My pupils hardly react to light (i.e., they change size very little if you look at a lamp) - if you don't know this for sure, check in the mirror with a lamp nearby.
- I am a more "problem-free" person than others.
- What would you like to give people? - 1) Freedom from doubt 5) Freedom of choice
- Others' success greatly irritates me, especially if fools are lucky.
- Stubbornness is not mine; I can always take the opposite point of view and look at the problem from the other side.
- On a plane or bus, the monotonous noise of running engines quickly puts me into a hard-to-overcome drowsiness.
- Even with a small amount of food, I sometimes feel a sense of fullness, with a "heaviness" under the breastbone.
- I love pickles and often eat quite a lot of them (herring, pickles, sauerkraut, salted mushrooms, etc.).
- My face sometimes turns red from a rush of blood to the skin.
- I sometimes begin to feel painfully helpless if I find myself in a group of people experiencing a common misfortune.
- A person nearby with a sad, dejected face usually spoils my mood too.
- I am very sensitive to criticism and the threat of punishment.
- I often get nervous.
- I would like a life completely devoid of any problems.
- I am prone to hypochondria - I often think about some ailments, fearing them in advance.
- I am afraid to walk along the edge of a cliff.
- I often have a restless-irritated mood.
- Having made a decision, I often hesitate and change it.
- On the internet, I always seize the opportunity to praise someone for something if there is a reason.
- I have a pronounced sense of guilt.
Markers that ESE mostly agrees with, while LSE mostly disagrees:
- I perceive the world through feelings, emotions, and empathy.
- I easily evoke vivid emotional memories in myself.
- Every person, every event has its emotional taste and significance for me.
- I am more characterized by emotionality than cold rationality.
- My emotions are deep, dramatic, and persistent.
- I experience emotions more vividly and deeply than most people.
- At any moment, I feel the emotional significance of what is happening, the fullness of each situation with a certain "taste of life."
- In a company, I often look at people to determine their mood.
- The world of my internal ethical feelings and experiences is where decisions are made.
- The world is ruled by powerful passions and feelings, which are usually stronger than reason and stronger than us.
- I can and love to speak loftily and passionately about my feelings.
- My thoughts about the near future can be pleasant or unpleasant, but they are always filled with an automatically felt emotional taste, significance, and meaning.
- I am a person of deep experiences and feelings.
- Indicate the number of the appropriate option: 1) Facts are always stable for me, while emotions are only momentary and fleeting. 5) The same feelings can dominate me for a long time, and then all the facts will be subordinated to them.
- Sometimes every event, every impression seems to me astonishingly emotionally rich and therefore very significant, either beautiful or terrible.
- I understand feelings and relationships, rules of behavior better than the logic of business.
- My speech has a lot of adjectives.
- My enthusiasm is often uneconomical, it lacks cold analysis and calculation.
- At the moment of making important decisions, I usually listen to what my heart says and do not pay attention to the external logic of things.
- My life is always emotionally colored and filled with dreams, expectations, fears; every person, every event has its special taste and significance for me.
- Remembering an episode of my life, I immediately automatically relive exactly the emotional feeling I had then.
- Compared to many other people, I can both love stronger and more selflessly, and hate more strongly.
- Working as a cashier in a store or an operator of a telephone information service would suit me better than being a judge or a programmer.
- I can recall a strong pleasure I experienced several years ago, and feel drawn to it again.
- Remembering key moments of my past, I always relive all the emotions I felt then.
- My mood often fluctuates.
- I love strong emotions.
- I preach emotional enthusiasm, not conviction, and at this time, I become persistent and imperious, not tolerating objections, becoming stern-willed from kind.
- I constantly want something, constantly feel emotionally strongly drawn to something.
- I am very artistic.
- I am a dreamy nature, I cannot stand greyness and standard, for me the main thing is beauty in art and life.
- I love to be capricious.
- I usually told friends about my love affairs.
- I am always ready for aesthetic pleasure, ready to admire beauty and be outraged by ugliness.
- Feelings and intuition are much more important than rational thinking and planning.
- Key concepts for me: fun, explosion of emotions, falling in love, outrage, family, bring joy, cheer up, beauty, holiday, grief, sociability, passion, treat, constant activity.
- I always experience strong pleasant emotions from good news, victory, and any own success or achievement.
- I am accommodating, affectionate, romantic, and unpredictable.
- I am helpless when acting alone.
- It is sometimes difficult for me to curb some of my inclinations, even when I understand that they are dangerous for me.
- I am good at maintaining long-term relationships.
- I love to cheer people up and dispel their boredom.
- I hold in memory for a long time and often mentally relive the sensations, touches, and smells I experienced two or three minutes ago.
- In a company of friends, I love to talk about my personal experiences in my youth and past.
- I believe that there is a lot of right and useful in astrology or occultism, undervalued today.
- Bright positive emotions are the main value of life for me.
- I am attracted to the strength and passion of emotions.
- This resonates with me tremendously: "And hearing the midnight bell, drunk on iron music, we rush in a circular dance over the opening abyss."
- Sometimes I deliberately behave defiantly and contrary - not as expected of me.
- Any mysticism helps me think because it captivates, gives rise to thoughts, and moves forward.
- I liked the Japanese feature-length cartoon about two children - Pazu and Lusita, as well as about the military and pirates on airships (headed by the pirate mom) and about the flying magic castle Laputa (rate from 1 to 5, and if you haven't watched it, put 3).
- If I want, I can write almost calligraphically.
- I hear such "thin" and high sounds, on the verge of ultrasound, that other people do not hear.
- Everyone should have someone who gives them orders and does not allow them to get confused.
- I love to strongly instruct others, striving to teach them my approach to life.
- In my desires, in my "I want," I am persistent and sometimes prone to stubborn maximalism.
- After experiencing horror, I often feel a "rollback" in the form of blissful joy spreading through all my limbs.
- I am often fascinated by weapons.
- My self-esteem hardly fluctuates and practically does not depend on my current level of demand or the level of external approval.
- If there is something to reproach a colleague for, I will definitely do it - in front of witnesses.
- I am ready to boldly engage in activities such as parachute jumps or motorcycle races.
- I rarely worry and almost never fret about the consequences or the possible reaction of other people to my actions.
- By the middle of the lesson or lecture, my attention is usually more focused than at the beginning.
- I would be curious to observe a dying person.
- I almost never joke.
- The anxiety and depression of some of my friends and relatives sometimes lift my own mood.
- I am not afraid of making mistakes and do not worry about mistakes - that's what searching is for.
- I usually say: 'Start explaining right from the end.'