[UltraShy]

What guides your behavior more: logic or emotion?

I'm dividing the answers by gender to test the stereotype that women are more emotional than men.

I consider myself a very logical person. Before I believe in something I say "prove it" as logic would dictate.

I'm a guy who has actually asked a funeral director "Does the return of the ashes cost extra?" I'm not joking -- I really asked that question on behalf of my brother who we called when our father died. Obviously, my brother has a logical (and cheap) mind too.

 

[Amelia]

Difficult to say. Depends on the situation. Often I will react to something emotionally, and logic kicks in later (sometimes too late! :b).

 

[Ms Deer]

Difficult to say. Depends on the situation. Often I will react to something emotionally, and logic kicks in later (sometimes too late! :b).

:agree

 

[meggiehamilton]

I think I am an equal mix, however, I have not taken any tests so I could be wrong. :stu

 

[Kelly]

I'm dividing the answers by gender to test the stereotype that women are more emotional than men.

I think if there is a difference, it will be based on cultural factors. I wonder if there's a way to test that. :con

Female, mostly logical for me.

Have a nice day,
Kelly

 

[free thinker]

I consider myself a very logical person. Before I believe in something I say "prove it" as logic would dictate.

I also consider myself a rather logical person. But where I differ from so many other "logical" individuals, is that I don't find it is necessary to always have to "prove" something before I believe it exists. If many thousands of credible and apparently unbiased eyewitnesses indicate that a phenomenon is occurring, I find it quite logical to deduce it is probably happening.

 

[glittergaze]

Difficult to say. Depends on the situation. Often I will react to something emotionally, and logic kicks in later (sometimes too late! :b).

:agree

:dito

 

[OneIsALonelyNumber]

Logical

 

[ghostgurl]

I'm female and probably more driven by emotion.

 

[Amande]

female, mostly logic

 

[heavymetal]

By logic 70%, by emotion 30%.

 

[millenniumman75]

Depends on the situation

 

[Molten Universe]

This probably sounds like evading the question, but I try to incorporate both logic and emotion in my thinking. The Swiss psychiatrist C.G. Jung believed that everyone has four faculties (reason, emotion, sensation, and intuition) and that a well-balanced (or "whole") individual would try to use all of these. I find that a pretty convincing idea.

 

[mranonhello]

Male overwhelmingly logically except in situations where anxiety and fear cause me not to be.

 

[amtoreo]

I go by emotions 80% of the time.

 

[UltraShy]

Male overwhelmingly logically except in situations where anxiety and fear cause me not to be.

That's exactly why I put down "mostly logical", since if we were fully logical we wouldn't have SA, the illogical fear of people. I'm about as highly logical as anyone can be, but I still have emotions, like anger & fear. To be totally logical would make you a robot.

 

[Strength]

These results are interesting, although kind of expected lol

I'm a guy and I picked equal logic/emotion....well I am usually a very logical person....but certain situations that happen regularly where emotion completely over-rides my logic. I think that emotion is just a stronger emotion -- whether it be a positive or negative one.

 

[leppardess]

It depends on the situation. But I think that I'm a pretty equal mix of both when depression and anxiety aren't ruling me.

 

[mayblue]

Pretty much all emotion.

 

[anonymid]

Male, equally mixed, though leaning toward emotional, I think. I'd like to take some kind of test or quiz, though.