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Affectemper™ is a tempological model of affective triadic personality tempers loosely inspired by the incorporation and division of emotions into the Enneagram centers, creating the original idea of affective tempers and consequently triadic personality. Starting from a blank slate in 2020 with the general categories solidified that year and spectrums into 2021 with the seasons, it was developed independently and ground-up. That is, it was built from its own first principles, including its original organization of basic emotions onto wheels, original associations and implications in the emblems and elements, and original tempers from these and enforcements. In other words, the vast majority of what you find here, and the entirety as for personality.

Enneagram of Personality

The Enneagram was the inspiration for the affective tempers and our Affectemper. It was a positivistic mover for recognizing and filling in the gap between traits and type. It was also a negativistic mover for why our temper model is fundamentally different from our trait and type models in not being based on or derived from any other model (including Enneagram) being edited, mixed, or developed from in any manner excepting the single, simple idea of a personality model having a basis in different emotions. Despite not being developed from the Enneagram, you can find throughout our models interesting overlaps and parallels, “convergently evolved” from the shared nature of emotions. The following summarizes our stance on the Enneagram.

1. The Enneagram integrates deeply important facets of personality which other models often miss.

However,

2. The system, upon which these facets depend, lacks and depreciates its potential insight due to being unprincipled (insufficient or invalid first principles and general concepts) and disorganized (insufficient or invalid patterns and relations). Like similarly faulty models, it relies on its parts/micro to justify the whole/macro, overcomplicating the model (with lines, variants/subtypes, wings, trigrams, etc.) to smooth over its foundational cracks. Its lopsided enneagram shape came from mysticism and numerology. Although coincidentally valid application to personality is not impossible, it is improbable. Upon attempting, we quickly concluded that the Enneagram was unsalvageable. For other critiques, read on Wikipedia or “The Fallacy of the Enneagram Personality.”

Psych 101

We incorporate two non-personality concepts commonly known in psychology – Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and the threat responses – paired with the basic “positive” and “negative” emotions respectively. Instead of a progressive hierarchy of stages, like a 3D rhombus, we set four divergent attachments (altered from the “needs”) higher than survival necessities but lower than the relinquishment of attachment. For the threat responses, we changed “fawn” to “feign” then to “front,” to most neutrally name a broad threat strategy. We contribute a 5th F “forget.” And although we didn’t use any psychological or direct sources for our basic emotions, we were inspired by the general, popular concept of diagraming emotions onto wheels.

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Versions

Increasing by 1 with conceptual changes, numbers X.Y.Z. indicate X: major changes in nomenclature/terms or first principles; Y: moderate changes in nomenclature/terms or ideas such as in different traits/tempers/types; Z: minor changes in descriptions or discussions.

ATPTv1.1.1

The information currently published is the first, official version of Affectemper™ or ATPT — the Affective Triadic Personality Tempers, by PersonalityTapestry.