Saturday, October 25, 2014
Chapter 15
I enjoyed reading about the dual-process model thinking on page 414 of our textbook. I found it interesting because I have noticed my thinking in the last two years switch to more analytical thinking from intuitive. My personality, and probably also because I'm a woman, tends to be more passionate and I feel everything. When I'm sad, I let myself be sad. When I'm happy, I'm very happy. When I'm determined, I'm very determined. My husband is very analytical, much less emotional, look at the facts and more even-keeled. We are literally polar opposites in every single way, thank you premarital counseling for making us realize that earlier rather than later. Our thinking process also reflect our personality types and tendencies. But over the last two years I have seen him become a little more emotional thinking and me more analytical. It was very insightful to see that this is an actual thinking process and not just "personality"
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Janelle, That's interesting to hear that both of you have begun to manner that has not always been natural for each of you. It sounds like both of you have influenced each other in perhaps seeing the benefit of different ways of thinking? I'm sure that's been good for both of you. I believe that I've had a similar experience since I've lived with my partner. I agree with you, also, that it's been interesting to learn about the dual-process model; to learn that these are thinking processes. However, I believe that whatever thinking process a particular person utilizes more often is indeed a part of their personality. Perhaps I'm wrong, but this is how I've always viewed it. There are various ways to do certain things. In this example, we're talking about our particular method of reasoning. The way we, as humans, go about handling these things makes up our personality.
ReplyDeleteI think it is neat how you and your husband are becoming more like each other.
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