Induced Synchronicity Via a priori Asymmetry in Judgment Shaped by Personality Traits

Article on SelfFusion: https://www.selffusion.com/education/induced-synchronicity-based-manipulation-how-synthetic-a-priori-judgments-and-cognitive-relative-extraversion-enable-subconscious-influence

This article introduces the concept of Induced Synchronicity — a phenomenon rooted in Kantian a priori judgment structures and Jungian archetypal meaning — as a mechanism of subtle interpersonal manipulation that emerges in interactions with large disparities in extraversion.

We begin with Kant’s insight that human perception is structured by a priori intuitions (space and time) and categories (e.g., causality, unity), which determine how we experience the world before any conscious analysis. Recent neuroscience and AI research on predictive coding supports this view: the brain does not passively receive data but actively structures it.

We propose that these a priori structures do not operate identically across individuals, but instead vary with stable personality traits — specifically extraversion, and its subfacets of assertiveness and gregariousness. When two people with highly different extraversion levels interact, we call the differential between them “Cognitive Relative Extraversion” (CRE). The larger the CRE, the greater the asymmetry in how interpersonal reality is synthesized.

This asymmetry can be exploited by the more extraverted individual through a process we call Induced Synchronicity. The mechanism has three parts:

1. **A-Causality**: The manipulator severs the appearance of intentional causality, making events seem coincidental.
2. **Simultaneity**: The manipulator aligns emotionally significant moments to appear meaningfully timed.
3. **Archetypal Meaning**: The target (usually more introverted) unconsciously assigns archetypal significance to the manipulator’s behavior — experiencing them as a symbolic figure rather than a person with intentions.

As a result, the manipulated party often experiences the interaction as spiritually or cosmically meaningful, only realizing the manipulation much later. This model synthesizes Kantian epistemology, Jungian depth psychology, and Big Five psychometrics — offering a framework for understanding interpersonal manipulation not through persuasion, but through pre-reflective symbolic entrainment.

Understanding this phenomenon may offer tools for resilience and self-awareness in academic, corporate, and personal relationships, especially for those who are more susceptible due to lower assertiveness and gregariousness.