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I think in dialogue. (More precisely, I think in dialogue about half the time, in more bland verbal thoughts a quarter of the time, and visually a quarter of the time, with lots of overlap. This also includes think-talking to myself when it seems internally that there are 2 people involved.)
Does anyone else find themselves thinking in dialogue often?
I think it probably has something to do with my narcissistic and often counterproductive obsession with other people's perceptions of me, but this hypothesis is the result of generalizing from one example. If it turns out cognitive styles are linked with certain personality traits to a significant degree that would be rather interesting. Have there been studies on this? Anyone have any theories?
I'm very curious about others' cognitive styles, whether not they're similar to my own.
So, LW: how do you think?
Monologues or disjointed verbal fragments. When I am mad at someone (hasn't really happened for a few years :) ) I get into dialogues with them, usually going in circles.
Dialogue and blog posts/essay format when I want to think about a particular topic but have no explicit goal in mind, regular verbal thoughts when I'm doing something cognitively challenging, fuzzy non-verbal and non-explicit concepts when I'm not thinking about anything in particular. Visual thought is something that I am capable of but only with conscious effort (eg. I can do those cube rotation tests just fine but I will convert everything to words if the problem allows it).
Almost entirely verbal and auditory (two different things; auditory includes music and meter.) Not very visual
I posted this just now, and then immediately saw this comment.
So, yes, you're not alone.
Hahaha, I very nearly made a symmetric comment on your comment.
It seems the way you think in dialogue is a lot less self-aggrandizing and thus more useful than my way of thinking (though I've been able to change it somewhat recently).
for a moment I was saying no way I'm like that, but then I actually thought about and it describes me quite well, big headed-ness and all :/
~95% - monologue, ~4.999% - nonverbal nonvisual processing, ~0.001% - dialogue. Personality is best described as ICD-10 F60.1.