Model A: How Socionics Reduces Conflict and Builds Peace
Oct 31, 2025
Most conflicts don’t start over politics, religion, or money. It’s usually something much simpler — the fact that we see completely different things in the very same situation. One person hears the tone, another hears the meaning; one reacts to emotion, the other to fact. And both are certain they’re right, because their psyche is built to confirm its own version of reality.
We tend to believe that “understanding” is a matter of upbringing, intelligence, or empathy. In reality, it’s a question of how information exchange is wired — and that wiring is unique for every person. Some people perceive the world through action and result (LSI, ISTj), others through relation and atmosphere (EII, INFj). Some construct logic, others sense the context. But since no one teaches us about these differences in school, we go through life assuming everyone is “the same by default” — and then wonder why teams, families, and relationships fall apart over nothing.
People Lived Without Socionics — Just Like They Once Lived Without Soap and Running Water
For thousands of years, people managed perfectly well without soap, toothpaste, or plumbing. They washed in puddles, treated wounds with smoke and garlic — and thought it was normal. Until someone noticed: dirt isn’t destiny, it’s just microbes. After that, everything changed.
The same thing happened with the psyche. Before typology appeared, people “washed” themselves with quarrels, grudges, and divorces. Conflict was the universal way to clean up: you bottled up irritation — then exploded, argued, cried, forgave, and lived on. But just like washing with sand instead of soap, the effect was temporary — it felt clean for a while, and then it started itching again.
Model A is that very plumbing system for inner hygiene. It doesn’t promise happiness, but it frees you from chronic confusion — where your own psyche ends and someone else’s begins. Once a person realizes they don’t have to be everything at once — smart, sensitive, logical, and inspiring simultaneously — it becomes easier to breathe. And when they see that others are built differently not out of malice but by the nature of their design, a basic respect appears almost automatically.
In this sense, Socionics isn’t about classifying people — it’s about civilizing relationships. Just as soap doesn’t make people purer inside but makes life cleaner on the outside.
Why Model A Is Not a Formula — It’s a Language
Many people hear the word “model” and immediately tense up. It sounds like someone’s about to “calculate a person” again — as if it were a school problem: if Vasya is a logical type (LSI, ISTj) and Masha is an ethical type (EII, INFj), how many arguments will they have per week? Hence the accusations of pseudoscience: the psyche doesn’t obey formulas, and people aren’t equations.
But Model A was never a formula. It’s a language — the one the psyche uses to describe itself. Just as notes don’t create music but allow it to be written down, Model A doesn’t replace life — it helps us hear it.
It shows how information moves through a person: through which “door” they let the world in, and through which they let it out; where they see clearly, and where they act blindly. For one, truth means logic; for another, emotion; for a third, image. Everyone speaks sincerely — just in different languages. And when one person tries to convince another of their “truth,” they’re really just shouting across different channels of perception.
That’s where the power of the model lies. It doesn’t judge — it translates, turning the chaos of interaction into a recognizable grammar of attention. It becomes clear why some people energize us while others drain us, why one sees the long-term perspective and another only the step right in front of them.
Model A is the syntax of the soul. It doesn’t count how much emotion or logic we have — it shows how these elements combine into a person’s speech about the world. And the moment you start to understand that language, the people around you stop being mysteries and become conversation partners.
Why Most People Don’t Believe in Systems
There’s a simple observation: the more spontaneously a person lives, the less they believe in structures. For them, life is a flow, and any “model” feels like an attempt to cage reality in a grid. They sense the world through their body, their moment, their mood — and the very idea that someone could describe this through “functions” feels invasive, as if their freedom were being measured.
It’s not about education or intelligence — it’s about the type of perception. Roughly half of all people are irrationals: they think not through structure, but through state. They care about how life flows, not why it does. Add to that the logical skeptics — those for whom anything not academically certified is “unproven heresy” — and the ones who need official approval: “I’ll believe it when they announce on TV that Socionics is real science.”
In the end, we get a majority for whom denying systems is part of their own system. They don’t disbelieve because they’re foolish — they simply have a psyche that doesn’t perceive patterns directly. It’s like a colorblind person sincerely claiming that green doesn’t exist — they truly can’t see it.
That’s the nature of perception: each type is convinced they see reality “as it is.” And perhaps that’s what makes human diversity so endlessly, stubbornly alive.
Who Benefits First from Understanding Model A
First and foremost — those whose psyche is finely tuned, who feel the world too strongly and can’t quite understand why others react “the wrong way.” Empathic, observant, introspective people — they’re usually the first to face the inner question: why do I experience things differently? They spend enormous energy trying to adapt, explain, smooth things over, anticipate reactions — yet the result is always the same: exhaustion and the sense of living out of rhythm with themselves.
Model A doesn’t give them an excuse — it gives them a map. It shows where their natural strength lies, and where they overload themselves by taking on someone else’s role. For example, a person with strong intuition — say, an IEI (INFp) — tries to act like a “rational manager” and burns out. An ethical type (EII, INFj) forces themselves into the role of a “tough analyst” and ends up feeling guilty for every word. Once the structure becomes clear, the tension eases. What appears is something close to an inner permission to be oneself.
From that point, everything begins to shift — relationships, work, even the way you think. You stop seeing differences as threats and start seeing symmetry in them. You realize that another person isn’t “wrong” — they’re simply speaking on another channel of information exchange.
And here comes the first real effect: conflicts don’t disappear, but they stop feeling personal. You begin to distinguish where it’s a clash of types and where it’s a conversation between people. And that’s no longer psychology — it’s the craft of inner civilization.
The Main Effect — Reduced Conflict
The most surprising thing about Model A is that it doesn’t teach you to “be kinder.” It simply explains why you sometimes want to strangle your conversation partner — even though, technically, they haven’t said anything offensive.
Conflict isn’t evil — it’s the collision of two different systems of perception. You say, “I need to understand the reason,” and the other person says, “I just want everyone to feel good.” You’re both right, but you’re speaking different languages: you’re speaking logic, they’re speaking ethics. For you, order is a guarantee of safety; for them, it’s control and coldness. That’s where all domestic wars begin: one pulls toward structure, the other toward warmth.
When you start to see this through Model A, something almost physical happens — a release. You stop explaining the obvious and proving your point, because you finally understand who finds it obvious — and who doesn’t. A pause appears between irritation and response. You stop seeing an “idiot” and start seeing a type (LSI, ISTj) — a person with different filters, receivers, and sensors. And in that moment, the main fuel for conflict disappears — the feeling of personal attack.
Model A doesn’t turn people into saints, but it makes meaningless conflict impossible. You can argue without destroying a relationship. You can speak firmly — without anger. Or you can simply stay silent and watch someone act within the logic of their own program — and suddenly, instead of irritation, you feel a kind of tenderness, the same tenderness we feel toward anything alive, complex, and consistent in its nature.
That is what understanding truly is — a form of peace. When you stop trying to fix others — and, for the first time, genuinely rest.
Saving Yourself Starts with You
Socionics will never be “implemented from above.” There won’t be a presidential decree “on the development of typological thinking,” and news anchors won’t announce that from this day forward, Model A is officially recognized as a way to resolve interpersonal conflict. And thank goodness — otherwise it would turn into a new religion.
Typology always spreads from the bottom up — from people who’ve grown tired of living in constant misunderstanding. Everyone who sees their own Model for the first time — how it collects and filters the world — goes through a small shock: it turns out, I’m not broken; I’m just built differently. From that moment, a person stops drowning in guilt, irritation, and the need to prove something. They begin to swim — not against the current, but along their own river of perception.
That’s why the rescue of the drowning is indeed the work of the drowning themselves. No one can “teach” acceptance; it can only be lived through — that quiet moment when you realize: people don’t have to be mirrors to reflect you. Each sees the world from their own angle — and that’s what keeps it alive.
Model A doesn’t save the world. It simply makes a person capable of not drowning in themselves. And when there are many such people — the water of human relationships becomes clearer.