Small groups

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Socionic types can be combined into groups that share common socionic traits. These are referred to as small groups, or quaternions if the number of types in the group is four. The most well-known small groups in socionics are quadras and clubs.

Small groups as a socionic concept generally include four types which have three Reinin traits in common. For example, the club of Pragmatists is Sensing, Logical, and Aristocratic. There are 140 such small groups.

Some socionists have talked about other kinds of small groups - for example, those with three members.

Small groups
Quadras	Alpha	Beta	Gamma	Delta
Clubs	Researchers	Socials	Pragmatists	Humanitarians
Temperaments	EP	EJ	IP	IJ
Romance styles	Aggressor	Victim	Caregiver	Infantile

Classical socionics
IM elements -	Functions -	Socion -	Type dichotomies -	Intertype relations -	Small groups

Further reading

• Small Groups (Quaternions) by Dmitriy Lytov (in Russian)