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What colour hat do you wear?
.... or what are you dominant cognitive modes?
1. Consulting psychologist Edward de Bono has postulated six different cognitive modes or ways of using one’s mind. He uses the metaphor of putting on different “thinking hats” to characterize the shift between cognitive modes; thus, he talks about:
detailed observation (White Hat),
emotional expression and empathy (Red Hat),
creativity and humor (Green Hat),
logical critiquing and troubleshooting (Black Hat), and so forth.
It seems likely that left-hemisphere persons specialize more in White and Black Hat thinking, as opposed to the Green and Red Hat emphases of the right-hemisphere thinker.
I expect to find that evolutionists (and particularly secular evolutionists) will show more evidence of White and Black Hat thinking (“just the facts, ma’am,” as Jack Webb used to intone each week on Dragnet), while creationists and perhaps also theistic evolutionists to a lesser extent will show more evidence of Green and Red Hat thinking (“there is more in heaven and earth than is dreamed of in your philosophy”).
If the intractable divide between creationists and evolutionists in the wider world is, in fact, driven in part by fundamentally different ways of thinking and processing information, it is no surprise that opponents routinely talk past one another and fail to understand the meanings and motivations of each other.
(heavily edited, from : The Social Psychology of the Origins Debate by Marlowe C. Embree )
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3. “There is much I don’t know, and I have a great deal to learn from you”
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Permalink Reply by Richard Jones on -
I expect it to be the other way around. And there is of course a lot lot more in heaven and earth than in religious philosophy.
But it's a good thread idea and I promise not to mess this one up for you. Or do any rhymes.
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Permalink Reply by Mr McStizzle on -
What if you wear all four hats? :o
Or further still, what if we all wear more than one hat, but some are hidden beneath another?
After all, detailed observation, logical critiquing and troubleshooting may lead to an emotional expression utilising creativity and humour ;)
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Permalink Reply by gilmour macleod on
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Kierkegaard said something along the lines of, "rather than sit opposite someone to argue with them, you have to go stand beside them, put your arm around them and look in their direction, then they may come around to your point of view." utterly hopelessly misquoted but there `s the drift of it.
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Permalink Reply by Penny on -
i totally agree.
and it's a good way of teaching someone (if they want to be taught), to go and find them and understand where they are in order to plot the best path to what you think is right (bearing in mind that you might be wrong!).
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Permalink Reply by Richard Morgan on -
Gilmour Macleod : "rather than sit opposite someone to argue with them, you have to go stand beside them, put your arm around them and look in their direction,"
Thank you for quoting this.
Opponents face each other.
More recently than Kierkegaard, Saint Exupéry said :
"Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."
This gesture, this position is the first step towards understanding, because even when we are looking in the same direction, we are still seeing with different eyes.
There are ideed, different ways of knowing.
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Permalink Reply by Dr. Derek P. Blake on -
To sit alongside someone who has an opposing view, whilst looking in their direction, means one thing, they become a pain in the neck. LOL
Seriously though this is a well known principle in counselling someone, the counsellor never sits directly opposite the client, always at an angle that allows direct eye contact in a non challenging way. However most counselling is not a discussion or an argument, unless you are practicing Gestalt Therapy, when it can be very much like an argument. Even in this situation body language and position is very important.
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Permalink Reply by diana kay on -
LOL I am in a green and red polka dot hat but I reckon there is going to be some gender differences between the left and right brain wiring diagrams. My hypothesis is that more women are going to have the green and red hats on, are there more atheist men than women??????
If the cap fits wear it?
I knitted a red and white hat last week but it was not for me :-) but for a friend of my daughters who was going to a fancy dress party as Wally for Wheres Wally fame or Wheres Waldo if you are America
http://natashaworswick.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/wheres-wally.jpg
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Permalink Reply by Mr McStizzle on
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I would actually disagree that men or women only wear one set of hats.
Where the difference lies, I believe, is in the expression. For example, a woman may emotionally express her distress and having perfectly justifiable, logical reasons for that distress. A man, looking for the logic and not seeing it, will then become emotionally frustrated because he sees no reason for the woman to be distressed. The woman will then accuse the man of having no feelings and not caring about hers. Both are applying intellect and intuition but expressing them in different ways.
I believe the same goes with creationists and evolutionists, generally with the creationist expressing themselves emotively even though they have a logical basis. The evolutionist, therefore, sees that the only response a creationist deserves is one of contempt and mockery. In the eyes of the creationist, the evolutionist is hopeless and lost. In the eyes of the evolutionist, the creationist is deluded and irrational.
What we have here is a failure to communicate ;)
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Permalink Reply by Dr. Derek P. Blake on
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“For example, a woman may emotionally express her distress and having perfectly justifiable, logical reasons for that distress. A man, looking for the logic and not seeing it, will then become emotionally frustrated because he sees no reason for the woman to be distressed. The woman will then accuse the man of having no feelings and not caring about hers. Both are applying intellect and intuition but expressing them in different ways.”
This is a physiological issue and a matter of two different hormones taking effect, very little to do with logic. Estrogens have a much higher emotional effect on the woman than testosterone does on the male, so there needs to be very low level causal triggers for the female to become emotionally charged and often this produces a very illogical responses. The male on the other hand, being triggered by testosterone feels that they are no longer in control (due to often irrational responses of the female) and metaphorically commences ‘chest-beating’, which makes the argument worse and he take up the face-to-face stance. Yes, it is synaptic pathways that are responsible to a degree but this must be viewed in terms of the hormone production, and both sexes have these appear in varying proportions in both men and women.
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Permalink Reply by diana kay on
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evidence please Dr Blake to back up these statements about osetrogen and testosterone. Are women on the contraceptive pill whic contains oestragen more emothional than those who are not? Are women after the menopausewhen oestragen declines less moody and emotional than those who are younger? Are women who have polycystic ovary disease (and higher testosterone levels )less emotional? I THINK NOT
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Permalink Reply by Dr. Derek P. Blake on
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I can’t remember the source of these comments but I am remembering some of the information we were given during my counselling qualification. This is not a strict rule and needs (as I said) to be taken in conjunction with other issues and states of mind, but essentially our responses are ruled by our hormones. A woman is a little unpredictable during menopause because the production of oestrogen fluctuates so much releasing anything from great surges to very low output and then of course the cessation. However, it is oestrogen and testosterone that shape our lives and by the time of female or male menopause, we can assume that responses are ‘Learned Behaviour’. Hormones just accentuate behaviour just as adrenalin changes our behaviour in certain circumstances, aggression, etc. However Diana we must not take effects as ‘stand alone’ we are not the sum of our chemistry and there are many other issues that must be included in the formulae.
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Permalink Reply by diana kay on
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ok hormones are very imortant part of our make up but this is an over simplification. Progestrerone has far more influence on mood than oestrogen and is well known to be related to low mood, oestrogen is usually related to well being and a sense of hsppiness.
I totally agree that changes in hormone levels can be more important than the actual level low high or steady.
And of course there is thyroid homone ........ Here endeth the biology lesson.
I just have this urge to correct things ...... could be my hormones of course!!
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