crosstype basics ▸ models

Model A vs Model G in socionics

Basics · part 5 of 5 · overview

Socionics has no central authority. It has schools, and they read the same person differently.

Half a century of literature, no governing body, no agreed textbook. Schools kept the sixteen types and rebuilt the machinery underneath them.

One reads you as information. The other reads you as energy.

Model A is Augustinavičiūtė’s original — the architecture parts 1 to 4 describe. Model G is Viktor Gulenko’s rework, built at the School of Humanitarian Socionics in Kyiv. Same sixteen types, same eight elements.

MODEL A

Asks what you process cheaply, what you quietly want handed to you, and what wears you down. Every type page and every relation page here is Model A ground.

MODEL G

Asks what you visibly spend yourself on. The same eight seats, read as a budget of energy — output a room can watch, rather than information you take in.

The classical model and the energy model · the marking scheme ▸

Model G keeps the types and the elements. It changes what the order is for.

Model A ranks the seats by how well you handle a kind of information and how much you want it. Model G socionics ranks the same eight by where your energy visibly goes. Re-ranking them is Gulenko’s whole rework.

Model G’s front block holds the seat you lead with and the seat you never claim.

MODEL A
ego
baseseat 1creativeseat 2
super-ego
roleseat 3vulnerableseat 4
super-id
suggestiveseat 5mobilizingseat 6
id
ignoringseat 7demonstrativeseat 8
MODEL G
Social mission
programa1 basecreativea8 demonstrative
Social adaptation
rolea3 rolelaunchinga6 mobilizing
Self-realization
demonstrativea2 creativemanipulativea5 suggestive
Energy drain
brakinga4 vulnerablecontrola7 ignoring
The four blocks, collected two ways · Model G’s social mission takes Model A’s base and its demonstrative · the pairing is the same for all sixteen types

Model A files seat 8 under strong, and does not care about it: real competence, joked about more than claimed. Model G calls that same seat a social mission — the thing the world watches you do.

Same person, same eight elements, two orders.

MODEL AILE
1 Nebase
2 Ticreative
3 Serole
4 Fivulnerable
5 Sisuggestive
6 Femobilizing
7 Niignoring
8 Tedemonstrative
MODEL GILE
1 Neprogram · a1
2 Tecreative · a8
3 Serole · a3
4 Felaunching · a6
5 Tidemonstrative · a2
6 Simanipulative · a5
7 Fibraking · a4
8 Nicontrol · a7
ILE, dealt twice · the lit rows are the swap · both models use the words creative and demonstrative, for different seats

Read down each column. The elements never move: Ne still leads and Fi still lands near the bottom. What moves is which of them counts as the front of the type, and which is background.

Answer honestly, and the two models can still fit you to different types.

That is not a fault in either of them. They weight the same evidence differently, so one profile can sit closest to one type on one reading and to a neighbor on the other. Most sites pick a school and never mention it.

The disagreement is one dial in the marking scheme, and the dial is public.

value dial · by model a seatmodel amodel g
1 base +1.5+1.5
2 creative +1.25+0.8
3 role −0.75−0.8
4 vulnerable −1.25−1.5
5 suggestive +1.5+1
6 mobilizing +1.25+1
7 ignoring −1−1.1
8 demonstrative −0.75+1.5
The value dial · the strength weights never differ by more than 0.3 · hold seat 8 to Model A’s sign and the two templates agree 99.5%, not 96.1%

Model A expects your eighth seat to be strong and unvalued. Model G expects it strong and valued. That single sign is where a reading splits — the weights, the templates and the fit formula are all at method §4.

Every result here is scored twice, margins included.

Take the free test

Next section

Take the free test▸

All sections

  1. 1What socionics is
  2. 2The information elements
  3. 3The eight functions
  4. 4The four quadras
  5. 5Model A vs Model G

by Sam Chiang · updated