SEI vs SLI

Markers that SEI mostly agrees with, while SLI mostly disagrees:

1. Sometimes I like to play the role of 'provocateur,' deliberately bringing up and discussing controversial and polarizing topics (online or in a group).
2. I know how to communicate with suffering people.
3. Stories about passions, horrors, and heroism always pleasantly excite me.
4. I am characterized more by emotionality than by cold rationality.
5. I understand the feelings and moods of the people around me well.
6. I often fear a low social status more than physical pain or other unpleasant sensations.
7. I usually immediately see if another person is happy.
8. I love poems and ballads with heroic sentimentality.
9. I quickly and eagerly get into the flow of other people's reasoning.
10. I quickly see and understand what can interest a particular interlocutor.
11. I have the gift of empathy, and I am excellent at calming another person and relieving their emotional tension.
12. I am an excellent negotiator.
13. I often feel connected to the fate of everything around me.
14. What is better and more familiar to you? - SEI: Striving to integrate and connect with others. SLI: Maintaining your independence.
15. I easily determine whether another's smile is sincere or deliberately 'put on.'
16. I gladly listen to others' stories about their personal sorrows and troubles.
17. By the behavior, facial expressions, and voice of another person, I quickly recognize their mood.
18. I often influence another person to lift their mood, make them more confident, and less gloomy or anxious.
19. I always notice if someone nearby has a 'sunken' mood, and I usually can easily understand the reasons and how it will develop further.
20. I read people like an open book.
21. When I walk with someone, I like to talk along the way; walking in silence is not interesting.
22. At least a couple of times a month or more often, it happens that, staying late at friends' places, I stay overnight.
23. What would you prefer to do? - SEI: Checking the production of light bulbs to identify sources of defects. SLI: Checking the production of light bulbs to simplify and shorten the process steps.
24. I love expressing my point of view and voicing my opinion on various issues.
25. After eating with a spoon, I throw it into the sink. Even if I ate peas and then eat potatoes, I will still take a new, clean spoon.
26. I am always ready to discuss in the company of friends what I want and desire, who I love and hate, what attracts or repels me.
27. I know and love to establish relationships between people in a team.
28. I know and love to speak passionately and fervently about my feelings.
29. I always easily and pleasantly express my emotions.
30. I understand people better than anyone else I know.
31. I usually immediately understand when my friend starts to get angry.
32. By the eyes and face of another person, I easily read their intentions.
33. I easily catch whether praise or flattery has affected a person and improved their mood.
34. I usually quickly determine how and with what to approach a new person.
35. I constantly feel the 'emotional vibes,' the emotional messages of other people.
36. Being a psychotherapist, actor, or host of music radio programs would suit me very well.
37. Sometimes I feel guilty for my happiness or good luck.
38. I often interfere in the lives of my loved ones - but I do it in their best interest.
39. I am good at harmonizing relationships in a team.
40. I easily find common ground with others and quickly begin to feel a spiritual connection with them.
41. I often become excessively excited by current events.
42. The usual thought for me is: 'The worse, the better.'
43. I often compliment people.
44. Other people and my relationships with them are an integral part and natural continuation of my 'self.'
45. I easily communicate with people prone to frowning or anger.
46. I usually strive for close emotional contact with people, at a short distance.
47. I am sensitive and observant of sudden small shifts towards a more positive and 'warm' mood in my partner or interlocutor.
48. I love group games like 'Mafia.'
49. It is true that I never make mistakes in using my feelings and external expressions of emotions - they are a very precise tool for timely influence on many people.
50. I easily catch anxiety or sadness in another person's voice.
51. It is easy for me to emotionally adjust to others.
52. Active gratitude to people who helped me remains with me for many years.
53. Every day, I repeatedly consider and evaluate the success of my current influence on people I know.
54. I love interspersing work with jokes and anecdotes.
55. I strongly and immediately (right away) react to surrounding impressions.
56. I know that I often improve other people's bad moods.
57. I can sometimes be annoyingly persistent when I try to console someone.
58. I like feeling my unity with others in experiences, indignation, or other vivid emotions - for example, sitting next to like-minded people in a stadium.
59. Unexpected situations always cause an emotional reaction in me.
60. I often intrude into other people's emotions and experiences with my own feelings.
61. I usually feel the experiences of another person as my own.
62. I quickly and accurately catch all the thoughts that the interlocutor tries to fit into their speech.
63. I usually immediately see that my friends are afraid of something.
64. When I tell something, there are always many descriptions and characteristics in my speech, which I give to someone or something with adjectives.
65. Compared to me, other people do not understand human psychology at all.

Markers that SLI mostly agrees with, while SEI mostly disagrees:

1. I am not interested in theoretical discussions.
2. It is true that I usually dislike it when someone 'sticks out' and causes disputes.
3. It is true that I really do not like interlocutors or partners with 'emotional outbursts.'
4. I am not at all attracted to pathos or tragedy in books.
5. I always prefer calm emotions in others, without 'outbursts.'
6. I do not like complications. All truth should be simple.
7. If the interlocutor's mood changes during communication, I usually find it difficult to understand where it came from.
8. I find it difficult to guess if my friends are happy.
9. It is true that I do not like excessive philosophizing about anything.
10. Admittedly, I am not good at understanding people's feelings, so I am cautious in communication and try to keep my distance from people.
11. I do not care about the names and life stories of those who ruled the country in the last century.
12. I am usually poorly informed about my friends' feelings.
13. In everyday life, I can be content with the minimum for a long time.
14. I rarely notice an uplifted mood in others in advance, and I often learn about my loved ones' successes from their words.
15. I find it difficult to 'feel' someone else's joy.
16. I do not like problematic discussions, I prefer to discuss simple and understandable things in a company.
17. I do not like any escalating emotions - neither in life nor in books.
18. I find it difficult to read another person's mood by their eyes and facial expressions.
19. I am more likely than others to be called a person with an immobile, stone face because I am generally not very emotional.
20. I am worse than others at recognizing people's moods by their faces.
21. I usually get irritated if the interlocutor makes sudden and abrupt movements.
22. I am not very perceptive of others' experiences.
23. I never talk about my feelings - I just do not know how to.
24. Many unfairly consider me probably a dry and unapproachable proud person.
25. I always feel nauseous performing tasks I do not understand or consider foolish.
26. Even to talk about myself, I need a dialogue. I cannot tell about myself without dialogue.
27. I usually do not care about most of the surrounding events.
28. It is true that it is very difficult to provoke me to laugh or cheer loudly.
29. I almost always feel the urge to go away somewhere if someone imposes their experiences on me.
30. In response to some personal success and joy of a close person, I can politely say that I am also happy, but inside I usually remain calm and impassive.
31. I often carefully distance myself from a person if they come too close during a conversation.
32. I perceive logical arguments better when they are conveyed in a quiet and calm voice.
33. My strengths are that I do not perform inefficient and uneconomical actions.
34. My main problem is that I often do not want anything, I am bored, I do not know what to wish for or occupy myself with.
35. If I speak quickly, my speech becomes fluent but confusing, sometimes with meaningless insertions, as it is difficult for me to follow my speech.
36. It usually does not matter to me what people around are doing.
37. I do not remember experiencing excited joy from any achievements or their anticipation in the past month.
38. Poor health can make me give up my desire and thirst for something, but resistance from others - never.
39. I find it difficult to pick the right words in a conversation.
40. I hate being rushed to meet deadlines.
41. I have always had difficulties in understanding and comprehending other people.
42. It is more interesting for me to establish the harmony of things than to establish the harmony of human relationships.
43. The misfortunes of my friends do not make me feel anything special.
44. Sometimes in my fantasies, I come up with deadly dangerous adventures.
45. I highly value and respect people's luck.
46. I am very picky about not being disturbed while eating or sleeping.
47. Even if I try, I find it difficult to speak in long fluent sentences, and understanding others' fluent speech is also difficult.
48. When communicating with a person, I base my approach only on the specifics of the moment, without using guesses - guesses for me are the sphere of unreliable and unverifiable.
49. My handwriting is sloppy, even if I try to write neatly.
50. To keep myself optimally excited, I have to constantly stir myself up with new powerful impulses, 'shake up' so that 'the jelly does not turn into a solid.'
51. I probably get more irritated than many others when I am rushed, and my work tempo is disrupted.
52. The surrounding people interest me very little.
53. I do not know how to talk about my feelings and experiences at all - even if needed, I cannot.
54. I do not always understand why the interlocutor was offended in a conversation.
55. I often strive for separation rather than unity.
56. It is very difficult to interest or persuade me if I initially suspect that someone is trying to convince me on purpose.
57. During anxiety, I usually stop understanding what I hear, I have to strain.
58. I would like and enjoy exploring new territories alone.
59. I often find it difficult to express my feelings in words.
60. When I tell something to people, I become more logical and 'dry' than usual.
61. Like a sleeping lion on a tree, I always feel perfectly when it is time to wake up and act, to do a lot of things at once with just a few moves.
62. I like to get to the bottom of things and am never afraid to seem foolish, asking for explanations.
63. I do not like borrowing anything for temporary use and then worrying about it - better to have my own in reserve.
64. I do not like stage performances and clowning, especially on New Year's Eve, when there is nothing to watch on television.
65. All people are the same - regardless of their nationalities (and whether they are good or jerks, everyone chooses for themselves according to their taste).