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The lens, inward
The same layered lens turned on the individual — temperament, cognition, traits, type and strategy, stacked into one profile.
A person is a stack: a biological temperament, a way of processing information, a set of trait dimensions, a type, and a strategy — and each layer constrains the ones above it.
First principles
Personality is a stack, not a label — each layer constrains the ones above it.
No single instrument is the truth; they triangulate one system from different angles.
Type is predictive: it says what a person does under pressure, not just how they self-describe.
The same lens reads a person and a nation — a human is a system at a different scale.
The layers
Human Typology decomposed from surface to foundation. Each layer rests on the one beneath it, and control of a lower layer reaches every layer above.
The library
The systems in this domain, explained in full — each with every type described.
Sixteen types built from four either/or preferences — the most widely used personality language in the world.
Explore MBTINine types defined not by behaviour but by the core fear and desire that drive it.
Explore EnneagramJung’s types rebuilt as a theory of how minds exchange information — sixteen types across four quadras.
Explore SocionicsNot types but dimensions — the five broad, replicated axes on which any personality can be scored.
Explore Big FiveThe Big Five plus one — a sixth factor, Honesty–Humility, that changes what the model can see.
Explore HEXACOThree overlapping traits — Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy — that share a cold, self-serving core.
Explore Dark TriadFour styles of relating, formed early and replayed in adult closeness — mapped on two axes: anxiety and avoidance.
Explore AttachmentNot a type but a set of learnable abilities — perceiving and managing emotion, in yourself and in others.
Explore EQEngine-level cognitive profiling — how well your mind actually processes information, mapped across the full pipeline. Deliberately not IQ.
Explore CAAThe systems lens turned on you — the same five layers that read a nation, applied to a person. An operational profile, not a personality label.
Explore TSFKey concepts
Using several instruments that each capture the system from a different angle, then cross-reading them into one profile.
Traits are continuous dimensions (precise, dull); types are categories (memorable, lossy). Each is a view of the same stack.
Whether a measure forecasts real behaviour under pressure — the test that separates instruments from horoscopes.
The five-layer systemic read of a nation and the layered read of a person are one methodology applied at different scales.
Five instruments, one stack
Each Psyche instrument measures a different layer.
| Layer | Instrument | What it captures |
|---|---|---|
| Cognition | CAA | Information processing |
| Traits | Big Five / HEXACO | Stable dimensions |
| Type | MBTI / Enneagram | Categorical pattern |
| Strategy | TSF | Behaviour under pressure |
Findings, with confidence
Every claim carries its confidence — fact, inference, or projection — and the reasoning behind it. Nothing here is asserted beyond what the evidence supports.
Trait models (Big Five) are the most replicated framework in personality psychology.
basis · Decades of cross-cultural replication; deductive from the literature.
Combining instruments predicts behaviour better than any single one.
basis · Triangulation logic + incremental-validity studies; inductive.
The same layered method reads a person and a nation coherently.
basis · The Tricellix thesis; structurally consistent, still being proven in use.
Going deeper
A person and a nation are both systems: decomposable into ordered layers, from an observable surface down to a substrate that constrains everything above. The Tricellix method reads both the same way — surface behaviour down to the base — so the instrument that dissects a founder and the one that dissects the CCP are the same grammar at different scales.
No single test is the truth. MBTI names how you think, the Enneagram why, the Big Five measures where you sit on stable dimensions, attachment describes how you bond under stress. Each captures the same underlying system from a different angle; cross-read, they converge on a profile that any one of them, alone, would flatten.
The systems answer different questions. Traits ask what you are like (continuous, precise, dull); types ask what pattern you are (categorical, memorable, lossy); motivation asks why you do it (the Enneagram’s domain). They coexist rather than compete because they are not rival answers to one question — they are answers to three.
Every instrument here is a map with known distortion. The scientific ones — Big Five, HEXACO — measure reliably but explain motivation little; the type systems communicate and inspire but overreach on precision. Held together and held loosely, they are a mirror for growth and a shared language for real differences — never a cage, and never a verdict.
Data provenance
This page is a view over the same intelligence graph the rest of Tricellix runs on. Where the graph is thin, we say so; the live interactive view mounts here as each source is wired in.
Take this system from reference to decision.