Axiosematics: Cognitive Processing Model
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Axiosematics is a proposed psychological typology framework developed by Typology Atlas, designed to explain individual differences in information processing through a structured system of cognitive primitives, functions, attitudes, and cognitive elements. Drawing primarily from Carl Jung's theory of psychological types, it seeks to provide a more explicit account of how individuals orient themselves towards information, perceive it, and subject it to judgment. The framework establishes two fundamental attitudes: Introversion, characterized by the predominance of the subjective factor, and Extraversion, characterized by the predominance of the objective factor. It further distinguishes between two categories of information processing: Perceiving functions, which apprehend information without subjecting it to judgmental operations, and Judging functions, which process information through organization, evaluation, and comparison. These categories comprise four fundamental functions: Sensation, Intuition, Thinking, and Feeling. Combining the two attitudes with the four functions produces eight cognitive elements: Photographic Sensation (Se), Associative Sensation (Si), Resource Potential (Ne), Symbolic Potential (Ni), Evidential Logic (Te), Axiomatic Logic (Ti), Collective Values (Fe), and Personal Values (Fi). These elements describe distinct orientations towards sensory stimuli, hidden potential, logical reasoning, and values. Beyond the fundamental cognitive elements, Axiosematics introduces three cognitive factors—awareness, importance, and engagement—to describe how each element operates within an individual's psychological configuration. Their combinations form an eight-element architecture consisting of Character, Hobby, Ghost, Instinct, Threat, Distraction, Avoidance, and Resistance elements. This architecture produces sixteen distinct personality configurations. Axiosematics ultimately aims to offer a coherent and systematic model for understanding psychological orientation and information processing, while retaining a conceptual connection to Jungian typology and introducing its own theoretical extensions. It remains a proposed theoretical model rather than an empirically validated psychological assessment system.
Source: Open Science Framework
Author: Gourav Kumar Mallick
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225648955
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