Connection between psychosophy and socionics:

Socionics deals with the structure of the human psyche, the objectively existing abilities of the human psyche to perceive, process and give out information. The object of study of socionics is information metabolism, i.e. the process of selecting, processing, storing and giving out information about the surrounding world in 8 different aspects. The socionic type is a person's information source and the way they process it.

Psychosophy studies a person's priorities, i.e. important and unimportant spheres of being, his or her subjective perceptions of his or her inner world and capabilities. PY, studies a person's relationship to the spheres of Will, Logic, Emotion, and Physics, in terms of how a person evaluates the achievement of any results, perception of feedback, motivation, and self-esteem in each of these areas, as well as their subjective importance and priorities for the person. Thus, the main area of consideration for psycho-yoga is the area of values, behavior, and human decision-making, which is beyond the scope of socionics. PY-type has more of an impact on behavior.

Types in psychosophy and socionics do not depend on each other, i.e. any combinations of types are possible. However PY-type influences on manifestation of socionic type. Combinations of types are harmonious or non-harmonious. Making any decision and putting it into practice is impossible without information from the outside world. And it is sociotype that is responsible for the efficiency of receiving and processing (i.e. selecting familiar images/perceptions/sensations from the information flow) this information. Thus, the effectiveness of a particular psycho-yoga function depends on where the corresponding basic aspects fall and how much quality information they can supply. But on the other hand, even for weak socionic functions it is possible to work through their filling (accumulation of experience, i.e. the number of images/perceptions/sensations they can recognize), due to which it is possible to improve the quality of their work. And this elaboration is the more intensive, the more significant for a person the PY-function, for which the corresponding aspect is the main one.

Possible combinations:

1. Strong socionic function + high PY-function. In this case a person effectively perceives information and just as effectively builds his behavior on its basis, without slipping into the extremes of super-process or super-result. The socionic function is constantly being filled, but its multidimensionality allows to fill it without special efforts and traumatic situations, adopting other people's experience with the ability to see situations when it turns out to be useful and when it is not. With such combination both PI and socionic functions are defined quite unambiguously during typing.

2. Strong socionic function + low PY function. This situation is very different in case of uncoordinated PY-function (i.e. the third) and coordinated (the fourth). In the first case, the person will actively act on this function, and the ability to effectively process information on this function will allow him to avoid the most unsuccessful actions that can cause a negative reaction from the environment, on which the third function so strongly depends. This will lead to the fact that the “ulcer” on it will be shallow, and the person will be harmonious enough. With this combination, the socionic function is easily determined, but there are difficulties in determining the function according to PY. With the fourth function the situation is the opposite: its lack of motivation leads to the fact that it is used very rarely and remains poorly filled. However, in difficult situations the multidimensionality of the socionic function can help to find some unexpected solution, i.e. the function is like a person's “hidden reserve”. With such a combination, as a rule, it is easy to determine the PY-function, but difficulties arise with the determination of the socionic function.

3. Weak socionic function + high PY function. In a situation when PI function is uncoordinated (the first one), a person will try to act according to it regularly, but due to lack or distorted information it will often lead to mistakes. In fact, a person will learn solely from his own experience, making mistakes and “kicking up bumps” almost everywhere possible. However, at a certain stage there will be a transition of quantity into quality, i.e. the corresponding socionic aspects will be filled in sufficiently to solve most everyday tasks on this aspect, and the person will begin to feel confident. For the coordinated (second) function the situation is similar with the only reservation that the filling occurs perceptibly slower. This combination makes it quite easy to determine the PY-function, but there are difficulties in determining the socionic function (so, for example, the pain function can start to look almost like a creative one as a result of pumping).

4. Weak socionic function + low PY function. As a rule, this combination leads to the fact that a person cannot adequately evaluate himself in the corresponding area. The most probable result is avoidance of any actions in this area in general, and in case of inconsistent third function - also active demonstration of one's position connected with denial of this area in general. At typing, as a rule, one can observe either complete avoidance of answers or very inadequate answers to the corresponding questions. In case the typist's corresponding socionic function is not one-dimensional, such situations are recognized quite easily.