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An Introduction to Mindset Theory
by 1socionics1
on Wednesday 2 December 2015

The plural agency is a self-referential, self-regulating, self-organising, adaptive, proactive and culturally stable collective, having a normative personality belonging to a psychosocial framework of the “collective mind.” The agency can be characterised by Mindset types, a derivative of Maruyama’s Mindscape meta-theory - a little known but powerful epistemic approach that can anticipate an agency’s patterns of behaviour and demands. A Mindscape is a construct from which coherent sets of behavioural mindsets can emerge. However, Mindscape theory lacks generative transparency, and the Mindset theory we develop changes this. Mindset Theory is based on the SagivSchwartz (2007) cultural values study from which 8 Mindset types are generated that individually or in combination can characterise personality and anticipate behaviour.