Contact Repulsion / Qi + Qe

Description

(+) Positive perceptual-evaluative orientation

Affirming what's good, present, working: "What is whole here?"

Attention drawn to what fits, holds together, and confirms.

Default expectation of favorable outcomes.

Hopeful and bright emotional baseline.

Accumulation of problems along Fusion functions. Instrumental problem-solving along Repulsion.

General Meaning

Positivity

Informational Level

Similarity-based cognition (connection, coherence, completion)

Orientation toward gaining positive outcomes

Social Level

Trusting and open in initial contact

More accepting of strangers and outsiders

Psychological Level

Lower emotional guardedness, higher suggestibility

Biological Level

Lower resting arousal