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Robert Kegan’s model of adult development has profoundly influenced my understanding of ethics, relationships, society, and thought. This page summarizes his theory.
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of intuition, emotion and deliberation in love and work.” In In Fröse, M. W.,
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PDF : https://www.researchgate.net/publication/300897006/download
Decision-making mechanisms
“Only dead fish swim with the stream.” Malcolm Muggeridge
“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.” Aldous Huxley
Many people's long-term romantic behavior is similar to dead fish floating with the current, slowly drifting with the stream. Is such behavior damaging? Not always, it would seem.
Decision-making mechanisms :
- Deliberative thinking (Awareness : High, Control : High, Speed : Medium, Goal-direction : Medium)
- Emotional intuition (Awareness : Medium, Control : Medium, Speed : High, Goal-direction : High)
- Drifting (Awareness : Low, Control : Low, Speed : Low, Goal-direction : Low)
Deliberative thinking typically involves slow and conscious processes, which are largely under voluntary control.
Emotional intuition consists of a dispositional mechanism activating ready-made patterns that have been set during evolution, social, and personal development. Unlike deliberative thinking, emotional intuition is fast, automatic, and accompanied by considerably less awareness.
Drifting is another type of decision making; it is actually an avoidance mechanism involving not deciding, or deciding not to decide. The meaning of “drifting” that I use here is that of moving slowly and aimlessly, especially as a result of outside forces, with very little control over direction.