Far from all men can be seduced by coquetry, it all depends on the psychotype to which this or that representative of the stronger sex belongs. What are men? There are several classifications according to psychotypes, and here is one of them: men are low primative and high primative.

However, this classification is also true for women. And the Russian writer Alexander Sviyash developed this classification, describing it in one of his books on popular psychology.

Who are highly primative people

In highly primative people, instincts prevail over reason and its arguments.. Such people live under the motto: "Love everything that moves." Many highly primative people live in the Caucasus, for example, in Georgia. Alexander Sviyash notes that highly primative people are born and grow up mainly in countries with difficult living conditions. So, in prosperous Europe, low-primative people have been born for a long time.

low primal people

Low primal people are different, as you probably already understood, the predominance of reason over instincts. They tend to think about their actions before doing them, while highly primative people do first, and only then think about it. However, in defense of highly primative men and women, it is worth saying that there are quite a few frankly stupid personalities among them.

Highly primative men (and women too) are great lovers - hot, passionate. However, they usually have plenty of partners for intimate relationships.

Sexual signs of highly primative men

Men whose mind prevails over instincts, and over the instinct of reproduction in particular, also want sex.. But they want him not with many women, but with a single lady of the heart. They prefer a calm relationship based on trust. Although they, in principle, can have lovers, but not always in the role of additional partners for sex. Sometimes you want to talk heart to heart with someone, and if there is no time for a legitimate wife to talk, then why not find yourself another interlocutor?

Primativity is an indicator that shows how strongly innate instincts are manifested in human behavior - the flock instinct, the instinct of procreation and the survival instinct. Highly primative people in their behavior are mainly based on instincts. Low-primitive, rational people in their behavior rely mainly on reason and logical reasoning.

Most people rely on both instinct and reason when making decisions. But the ratio of reason to instincts can be different.

The task of the test is precisely to help you understand how rational and how instinctive you are. This will help you better understand the hidden motives behind your behavior and your relationships with other people.

Test for men

	Question	Self-assessment in points	Notes
	Do you have a lot of hair on your body? The question applies only to the representatives of the white race.		If you have hair all over your body, including your back, then put 10. If the hair grows only on the head and pubis, and everything else is clean, then put 2. If there is vegetation on the body, but not very much, choose an intermediate value. Long hair, beard, mustache - add a couple of points.
	Do you like extreme sports, risk to life, thrills?		If you can't live without it, put a 10. If you avoid it, put a 1 or 2. The rest is in between.
	Are family relationships, constant communication with relatives, friends, helping them important to you?		If very important, put 10. If not important at all - 1. In other cases, rate the importance of this indicator for yourself in the range from 2 to 10.
	Can you control your emotions or can they overwhelm you and control your actions? How about jealousy?		If you are super emotional (or jealous) and often cannot control your behavior, then put 10. If you are not emotional, then 3.
			If loneliness gives you pleasure, then put 1 or 2. If you definitely need people, you don’t feel good without them, put 10. In other cases, rate the importance of this indicator for yourself in the range from 2 to 10.
	Can you control your food (drinking, smoking, drugs, gambling)? Or do you do it in excess and then berate yourself for it?		If you freely control the amount of food consumed (alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, gambling), then put 2. If you cannot control these processes at all, then put 9 or 10. In other cases, rate the importance of this indicator for yourself in the range from 2 to 10.
	Are you in control of your sexual desires, or is your sex drive taking over completely?		If you do not have excessive sexuality, then put 2. If you are super sexy and think only about sex, put 10. In other cases, rate the importance of this indicator for yourself in the range from 2 to 10.
	Do you like hunting, fishing? And this is not about a trip for relaxation or meditation, but for prey. That is, you are completely focused and at any cost wants to get yourself fish or meat.		If you always strive to get as many fish or game as possible, this is very important for you, then put 10. If you go fishing or hunting just for the sake of communicating with friends or nature, then put 4. If you are far from these entertainments, then put 2. In other cases, rate the importance of this indicator for yourself in the range from 2 to 10.
	Do you like to eat dishes prepared from living creatures - live fish, crayfish, freshly killed game, meat with blood, etc.?		If you are happy to choose live fish, crayfish, poultry, etc., and are happy to eat food prepared from them, then put yourself a 9. If you are a staunch vegetarian or do not eat anything that has eyes, then put 1. In other cases rate the importance of this indicator for yourself on a scale of 2 to 10.
	Is it important for you to belong to any nation, nationality, clan, religion, party?		If you are very concerned about national, religious or party issues, you consider yourself an expert in this, then put yourself a 9. If you are not at all interested in your nationality, religiosity, partisanship, you are far from it - put yourself a 2. In other cases, rate for yourself The importance of this indicator is in the range from 2 to 10.
	TOTAL:

Test for women

	Question	Self-assessment in points	Notes
	Are family relationships, constant communication with relatives, children, helping them important to you?		If very important, put 9. If not important at all - 1. In other cases, rate the importance of this indicator for yourself between 1 and 10.
	Can you control your emotions or can they overwhelm you and control your actions?		If you are super emotional and often cannot control your behavior, then put 10. If not emotional, then 1. The rest is in between.
	Is it important for you to have your children?		If it’s very, you can’t imagine life without children, then put 9. If you don’t need them at all, then put 1.
	Can you be alone for a long time, or do you definitely need the company of other people?		If loneliness gives you pleasure, then put 1 or 2. If you definitely need people, you don’t feel good without them, put 9.
	Can you control what you eat (drinking, smoking, sex) or do you gorge yourself and then berate yourself for it?		If you can freely control the amount of food consumed (drinks, cigarettes, drugs), then put 1. If you can not control this process at all, then put 9 or 10.
	Do you have an unconscious craving for miracles, divination, clairvoyance, astrologers and other mysticism?		If you are very interested in this, you cook in it and constantly use magical rituals, fight evil eye and damage, then set yourself 10. If you are far from this and treat mysticism with humor, set yourself 2.
	Are you a religious person?		If you are very religious, perform all the rites of your church and sincerely do not understand non-believers, then put 8. If you are an atheist, then put 1.
	Are there unreasonable fears, forebodings, disturbing dreams and other incomprehensible phenomena in your life?		If you are constantly overcome by incomprehensible fears, premonitions, you are trying to interpret your dreams, then put 8. If you have fears, but you clearly understand where they came from (strong fear, etc.), then put 4. If fears and premonitions are alien you, put 1.
	Is marriage a very important part of your life?		If you can't imagine a single life, it loses all meaning for you, then put 9. If you have a lot of interesting things to do, and you are completely calm about whether you are married or not, then put 2.
	Is belonging to a family, clan, nation, nationality, party, religion important to you?		If you clearly position your national or religious affiliation, and are fully guided by their norms, then set yourself a 9. If you are not at all interested in the nationality and religiosity of you and your loved ones, then set yourself a 2.
	TOTAL:

Insert in the middle columnthe value of the indicator that reflects your current state and behavior. Then press the "CALCULATE" button and you will get your approximate primativity score.

Learn more about primativity

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« Actually, this feature of the human psyche has long been taken into account by scientists., and they even introduced a special term for it -"primative" . The meaning of this word is very similar to "instinctive". This is not primitiveness, but precisely primativity, which comes from the word "primacy", that is, predominance. Or from the word "primates", in the sense of monkeys. Which also fits here. Therefore, it can be said that“primativity” is the degree of expression of instinctive patterns of behavior in relation to rational . To put it very roughly, the more primative a person is, the closer he is toby your behavior to animals.

At first glance, it may seem that the sample of primativity is an underdeveloped and uneducated the male , overgrown with hair, foul-smelling, loud and non-literary expressing his unpretentious thoughts, constantly eating and drinking something and covetous any passing past the woman. A familiar example, isn't it?

Whereas a person with absent primativity is a well-pressed and elegant man in a strict suit and glasses, with three higher educations, with a thoughtful intellectual face and a leather briefcase with business or scientific papers. Or with a laptop.

It's almost like that, but oh no at all. Actually, the degree of primatiality almost does not depend on the level of education of a person . That is, there can be a highly primative academician and a low-primative (that is, highly rational) janitor (although, of course, in fairness it must be said that the opposite is much more often the case).Primativity is manifested in the extent to which a person's behavior, regardless of his consciousness, is influenced by innate instincts. . And this sometimes depends little on the level of education, the social environment in which the person lives, the position held and other factors.

People encourage instincts

Let us return to the question of how society relates to the animal nature in behavior of a person . It seems that he does not approve, since cruelty, rudeness, intemperance in desires, gluttony (remember: “Well, you are an animal!”), Arrogance(“Stop like a donkey!”),excessive sexual concern ("March cat", "male"), vindictiveness and other not very pleasant qualities.

That is, people, it seems, should not behave like animals, but should be guided in their behavior by moral norms., moralityand other reasonable rules accepted in this society, which clearly do not encourage the manifestations of animal instincts.

But let's imagine a group of women discussing a young mother who is very attached to the child and has devoted all her thoughts and actions to him:“She is a good mother, she has a strong maternal instinct. Such a mother is a model for others!

And there goes another mother, a bad one. She gave the baby to a nanny two months after giving birth and went to work herself. She does not think about the child at all, she does not have maternal feelings, well, is it possible! And that woman over there is absolutely terrible, she doesn’t want to have children at all!”

Familiar stereotypes, right? That is, in general being an animal is not good, but having such a maternal instinct is wonderful!

And what about our sport, all built on the idea of ​​achieving victory at any cost? Doesn't it feed the survival instinct in the form of fighting forhighest place in the sports hierarchy? And endless action films, what instincts of the audience do they please? Is it an important part of our life? And is there a lot of reasonable and human eskogo?

So in reality people who declared themselves as beings who control their lives with the help of reason (homo sapiens - a reasonable person), cling to instincts with all their might, encourage and develop them. They encourage their animal nature, although they declare the need to live intelligently and consciously.

This is our world, and you need to live in it a whole life, and preferably with pleasure.

What is instinct?

But now you can ask what is this very instinct, which clearly betrays an animal origin in a person. Or, on the contrary, the process of movement from a rational being to an animal?Judging by the events taking place in the world, these two processes are taking place simultaneously.

It must be said that modern science does not really like to discuss the topic instincts , because she has not yet been able to draw up a single classification or give a definition of instinct that suits everyone.

At first, there were five or ten instincts, and then the number reached several hundred. After all, to instinct am people refer to phenomena of a completely different order. For example, we instinctively withdraw our hand when we touch a hot surface. And instinctively shrink, concentrate in moments of danger.

On the other hand, we also perform the process of breathing, controlling the muscles of the body during movement, not consciously, but instinctively, but these are completely different instincts.

On the third hand, we can talk about the instinct of procreation, the instinct of motherhood, the instinct of leadership - these are not at all the internal mechanisms that control breathing.

Here m We will consider only those phenomena that are indicated in the third variant. I.e those complex processes that influence human behavior beyond his consciousness, forcing him to attach great importance to certain values ​​and priorities and to perform actions arising from this choice.These processes are unconscious, that is, they do not come from the human mind (here we mean the rational component of human thinking), but from some other centers that a person initially recognizes as very important.

Wewe willconsideringbejust a few instincts

. procreation instinct , consisting in unconscious the craving of people to produce offspring. And this is not about sex, but about the desire to have children.

. herd (herd) instinct , which consists in an unconscious desire to belong to some group (flock), where a person feels safe. The same instinct determines the position of a person in society, his place in the hierarchy of people;

. instinct for self-preservation (survival) , which consists in the unconscious desire to survive at any cost in case of danger (can be suppressed by the will and internal attitudes). Another form of manifestation this instinct - an unconscious desire to help a blood brother - another person who is in danger or suffering, that is, mercy;

. leadership instinct - an unconscious desire to occupy the highest possible position in society (in its sphere and at its level), where it is safer and more tidbits of all kinds of benefits are obtained. Here, another form of manifestation of this instinct is also possible - the desire to protect the weaker ones, to take responsibility for their life and well-being.

It's understandable that this list could draw the ire of an instinct specialist.(ethologist) , but we will not claim this honorary title. For further reasoning, what we have indicated is enough for us (and if these instincts are not enough, then we will add more).

When is a person intelligent?

If a person is a dual unity of an animal and a rational principle, then is it possible to distinguish when a person is controlled by a reasonable the beginning, and when - the animal? Usually e These states are easily distinguishable.

If you find in a situation whereyou have enough knowledge, information and time to assess the current situation and make an informed decision, then most often your behavior is reasonable. This is the reasonable behavior of a housewife in the kitchen, a worker in a factory, a director of an enterprise in his office and so on.They perform more or less standard actions according to predetermined rules, nothing threatens them and does not cause much anxiety, so instincts are not in demand.

But if you have just been appointed director, and this position is new and disturbing for you, then instinctive safety mechanisms may be activated unconsciously in you. Which will manifest themselves, for example, in the desire to surround themselves with “safe” people (relatives, friends, former colleagues), although objectively their business qualities may not meet the necessary requirements.

That is, instincts come to our aid, when we do not have enough information and time to make a reasonable (i.e. rational, rational)solutions. For example, you need to make a decision quickly, and you you can not with your rational mind (however complex it may be) to understand what is happening. Loud sudden sound, unusual vibration, incomprehensible speech or threatening intonations in the voice of a stranger, incomprehensible events around you , lack of necessary information - all this, and many other factors can start us instinctive processes.

In a difficult situationThe mind cannot give an unambiguous assessment of the situation, so it is quickly pushed into the far corner, and it enters into control of a person. e t block Instinct s . First, the survival instinct launches its analyzers for danger - is there a threat to life? Then he offers to either take some action (squint, listen, hide, etc.), or, if there is no direct threat, triggers the following instincts. For example, a herd - a person begins to look for another person - it is safer together. If another person needs help, already the survival instinct makes us rush to help him., etc.

Instinct helps us survive

That is, it can be stated that instincts help a person survive in a dangerous world . Man is absolutely rational with completely suppressed instincts, he will not live here for long - without receiving the necessary information, he will go without fear to see what kind of incomprehensible noise he heard. A man with instincts would have long ago made his legs from an incomprehensible noise, and this one goes to find out who shot whom and why. Or what was itnoise-like soundfalling wall. Etc.

That is, it turns out that if our world were absolutely safe, if hot and cold water, electricity were never turned off in it, earthquakes and other disasters would not occur, there would be no crime - in such a world, instincts are really almost not needed. Unless the instinct of procreation would be useful, and it is easy to replace it with cloning.As you understand, approximately such living conditions exist only in some countries of Europe and North America. It is so safe there that most of the locals (not migrants from the East) simply have nowhere to apply their instincts. Due to lack of demand, they fade away.

But it is only a small part of our planet. Otherwiseour world is not like that. Someone is constantly fighting in it,fighting for powerthere are lawbreakers ow, are happening catastrophes, earthquakes, accidents and other life-threatening events I - so we need instincts. Relatively speaking, they are needed in order to prolong the existence our body.

The number of catastrophes and other life-threatening events in our world is constantly increasing. Catastrophes are the result of climate change on the planet under the influence of transformative (seemingly intelligent?) activities of people . Smart scientists invent new products, smart entrepreneurs make them, smart consumers buy them. And the planet as a result of this total rationality perishes. But not quickly, but gradually, forcing a person to train and develop his instincts, that is, to become closer to her, Mother Nature (after all, animals are part of Nature).

That is, it looks like today the entire planet (as a single living being) is interested in reducing intelligence of people (in terms of science, engineering and technology)so that they heat it less, litter it, destroy natural resources and forests.

In fact, these processes in the world and occur - the number of the population with predominant instinctive behavior is constantly increasing- the population of African and Asian countries is growing and migrating to Europe and America. And the indigenous population of European countries is falling, because low-primative nations do not seek to multiply (the instinct of procreation is asleep, and Reason does not want to burden life with the troubles of raising children). Such a funny closed process - the faster we are moving forward in terms of science and technology, the faster we get back - to ecological or some other catastrophe, which will again pull out of us the instinctive (read - animal) beginning.

Since primativity is not evaluated in any special units, we will evaluate its value as a percentage.

And vice versa, a person with completely suppressed instincts and guided only by his mind (practically - a walking calculator, a bore) will have a low primativity close to 0%. It is clear that real people do not have extreme values, most have primatiality in the range from 20 to 80%.

Approximate grades

Approximate expert assessments of the level of primativity of inhabitants of various countries can be given. These will be average estimates in relation to the entire population of the country. Naturally, among this population there will be a certain number of people with much higher and much lower indicators of primativity. Therefore, you do not need to take the figures given as a basis for resentment or other unhappy feelings, be more reasonable and benevolent, even if you are not satisfied with these assessments.

So, the highest rates of primativity are likely to be found in the countries of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. On average, their primativity can be estimated at 75-80%. Residents of the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus (the former republics of the USSR) have an average primativity of 65-70%. The primativity of the inhabitants of Russia can be estimated at 55-60%, and it is decreasing due to the stabilization of the economic and political situation in recent years.

The primativity of the indigenous population of the United States (without African Americans) can be estimated at 40-45%. The primativity of the inhabitants of Europe (excluding the southern countries) can be estimated at 20-25%. Expert assessments, since serious studies on this topic have not been conducted.

You already have test results, so you can compare your primativity with the national average. Most likely, it will be somewhat lower than this average value - highly primative people do not like to read such books. They have more interesting things to do - sort things out with people around them, produce children and ensure their survival.

Let us first consider the characteristic features of the behavior of people with high and low primativity. According to them, you yourself will be able to assess the reliability of the above estimates.

Characteristic features of people with high primatiality

A clear positioning of oneself in the human hierarchy (that is, knowledge of one's place in the community), usually a rather low self-esteem. The need for an external powerful patron who will indicate what needs to be done and protect in case of danger. The unconscious delegation of important decisions to persons occupying a higher position in society (...the master will come, the master will judge us …).

A rigid religion, usually with strict regulation of behavior and harsh punishments for breaking rituals. High emotionality, slight excitability and aggressiveness (sometimes this sign is absent due to the fulfillment of religious prescriptions or the prevailing way of life). The predominance of relations and connections over the law, the use of the law for personal purposes, high corruption(there are exceptions).

High need for family and birtha large number children. High sexuality in men. High need for care e about relatives Strong family ties.Propensity to feast and hospitality. High desire for communication. A strong desire to find their own community and aggressively treat those who do not share the ideas of this community, whether it be an association on national, religious or other grounds. High interest in achieving prey by hunting or fishing. High dependence on pleasure, low resistance to addictions. Expectation of a miracle, high commitment to gambling and drugs with the transition to addiction.

Characteristic features of people with low primatiality

Self-reliance and scientific knowledge, weak dependence on external forces. Low need for religion. The high price of life, respect for any person, tolerance in relationships. Recognition of the rights of any person to his freedom, hence the recognition of same-sex marriages. The predominance of rational thinking over emotions, low emotionality. The predominance of law over relationships and connections, low corruption. Weak family ties, restraint in communication. Weak desire to reproduce the genus. Restraint in emotions, building family relationships with a high degree of personal freedom, respect for the rights of a partner. The absence of an unconscious desire to be a member of some community.

How does it manifest

Now d let's see,how differences between people with high and low levels of primatiality can manifest themselves in specific areas of life.

Self-esteem

Let's take such an important part of life as self-esteem, a sense of one's own significance, perception of oneself as an important element of the universe.

People with high level of primativity usually live in a dangerous environment, in difficult conditions, where their lives are threatened by many dangers. You can die easily, so neither your own nor someone else's life is a serious value. And it is easily sacrificed in the name of various ideas - religious, clan, territorial, to preserve what is considered to be honor in this community, and for many other reasons. It is clear that self-esteem at the same time is quite low, a person tends to live surrounded by people close to him (close by blood, by nationality, by religion, etc.). Once in an unfamiliar environment, he unconsciously (herd instinct) seeks to find people close to him by blood (nationality, place of birth, etc.) and communicate with them. Such communities (fellowships) are created by migrants to Russia from the Caucasus or Central Asia. But exactly the same communities are formed in the countries of Europe or in America by immigrants from Russia. Among compatriots, people find communication, support, a sense of security.

It is convenient to manage highly primative people, because they do not have their own opinion, they delegate the right to make decisions to those who are higher than them in rank (God's viceroy - the head of the religious community, king, shah, president (if he wants to call himself that), boss, commander , etc.). They are ready to take any means of governing them for granted, therefore dictatorships or monarchies prevail, where power is inherited.

Since people have low self-esteem, they seek protection and help from some external forces, not counting on themselves. Therefore, in such countries there is a high demand for religion, and a rigid religion that clearly prescribes all the steps in a person's life. If the religion is not so rigid, then it is popular to seek help from various kinds of sorcerers, shamans, clairvoyants or magicians.

Highly primative people usually have little faith in the possibility of changing the situation on their own, so they have high faith in the Miracle. Hence the high popularity of all kinds of drawings and lotteries, gambling. Moreover, since the rational principle is poorly developed, and faith in the Miracle is high, people cannot stop in their gambling aspirations (including cravings for alcohol and drugs). Understanding this national peculiarity, religious and secular authorities usually impose strict bans on gambling, alcohol and drugs.

In low primative communities, where people make conscious decisions, the situation is quite different. Here, each person feels like a Personality with certain rights and his own opinion. It is difficult for such people to impose some kind of choice, because they are used to thinking and making decisions themselves. It is clear that with the help of massive influence through television using modern psycho-technologies, some solution can be imposed on them, but this will not last long. After a while, they will figure out the deception and call to account whoever manipulated them, regardless of their position. Such examples, when politicians of any rank, even the highest, are put on trial, we periodically see in developed democracies.

This is not possible in highly primative countries. And not because there is no democracy, but because there are other people. An attempt to impose a democratic model of government on a country with a highly primative population leads to more than sad results. The real masters of the country, using democratic tools, ensure their victory in the elections and continue to rule, already having the status of a “civilized” society.” Until the self-esteem and self-awareness of the population reaches a certain level (primativeness of the population does not decrease to 40-45%), democratic forms will cover clan (herd) relations.

Family

Primativity has a huge impact on family relationships, dictating the family model and the behavioral strategies of men and women.

For example, the instinct of procreation makes men unconsciously strive to sleep (create offspring) with the maximum number of women. On a conscious levelthey are only interested in sexunconscioushighly primative maleseeks to assert himself as a male - the owner of all the females of the pack.

E the same instinct makes womenat any cost to start a family and have children (to continue the race). When choosing a husband, a woman unconsciously seekschoose the highest-ranking (in terms of instinct, not reason!) man, and become his wife (or mistress). High-ranking - that is, occupying a high status in society (in a pack).

But if then the man does not live up to expectations women ( turns out to be weak, unsuccessful, penniless), his rank in the eyes of a woman falls sharply (love passes). Ocools off towards him and directs his attention to another, again high-ranking(in relation to her status) a man. These processes are described in great detail in the work of V. Protopopov "Treatise on love from the point of view of a terrible bore"and in the book "Counsel to Married, Rejected and Longing to Be Married"}