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)