Indicators of the cognitive style | Phenomenological categories associated with the cognitive style | Expression of the cognitive style in everyday common sense reality |
Form of tension of consciousness | Being is a being-in-the-world | Full attention to everyday life and activity in the world |
Form of epoché | Being has no doubt about the world | Suspension of doubt about the everyday reality, its perception by the self and its validity |
Dominant form of spontaneity | Being is future projects and actions | Work, action (based on a project and the intention to advance a projected situation embodied in corporeality aiming to modify the external world) |
Form of self-experience | Unified being-in-the-world | The self involved in everyday activity and work, perceived as the total self |
Form of sociality | Being-in-the-world present to relationships | Common intersubjective world, (communication, social activity, impression of sharing the same world as consociates) |
Temporal perspective | Present exists through its relationship with past and future | Standard time not present to consciousness; time conceived as the temporal structure of the shared intersubjective world (at the intersection of subjective duration and cosmic time) |