How Renaissance Men and Women Think

• Christian

  ISFJ
• Published: 07-02-2014 Edited: 07-02-2014
• Do you think like a polymath? Here's a quick test: are you more of a rational or experiential/intuitive thinker?
  
  If you cringed as you read the question and thought to yourself, "I love constantly shifting between both modes of thought," then you're on the polymath path.
  
  According to psychologist Seymour Epstein's cognitive-experiential self-theory, humans have two parallel but interacting modes of information processing. The rational system is analytic, logical, abstract and requires justification via logic and evidence. In contrast, the experiential system is holistic, affective, concrete, experienced passively, processes information automatically and is self-evidently valid (that is, experience alone is enough for belief).
  
  Read more from Huffington Post:
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-barry-kaufman/renaissance-men_b_875453.html
  
  Read more about CEST:
  http://www.psych-it.com.au/Psychlopedia/article.asp?id=53
  http://www.cisat.jmu.edu/visionsconference/pdfs/Epstein.pdf
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive-Experiential_Self-Theory
  
  
  
  
  The model for Neojungian Typology is based on CEST and extends it by adding individual differences in the memory-systems (semantic and episodic) and also differences with goal-direction attention (top-down) vs stimuli-driven attention (bottom-up) from cognitive psychology. It also adds individual differences in saliency from modern psychology.
  
  
  
  Read more about salience:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salience_%28neuroscience%29
  http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Visual_salience
  
  
  
  Read more about Extroversion and Introversion related to salience:
  http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2014/06/09/will-the-real-introvert-stand-up/
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