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The Primary Identity is often determined by cultural mores, such as 'woman's place is in the home', or 'the man as the breadwinner'. Or the individual can adopt, select or create any Primary Identity, of which may conflict with the Ego, as husband and family man, and a Secondary Identity as secret womanizer.
Horizontal Thinking
Those who use primarily the Ego as Interpretive Context, would be said to think Horizontally, meaning side by side affinities, differences, similarities and distinctions, as opposed to better or worse and superior/inferior. A bird is not considered as superior to a bug or bear, but as distinct. The mosquito might be of far greater nuisance than the butterfly, but that is not the fault of either of the insects. Human relationships would be based on the similarities or differences of the genetic, biological and socialized character, human experience or various skill capacities, rather than the exceptionalism of facilities, like specialized professional capacities.
The evaluative system of Horizontal Thinking is called Optimum Correspondence.
Vertical Thinking
Vertical Thinking would be said to characterize the Progressive Identity, wherein the psychology of personal worth, is the estimation and assessment of value by Numerical Evaluation from zero to ten, as the evaluative system called the Dyadic Authoritative Comparative, or up and down, better/worse, inferior/superior. Vertical Thinking is the conceptual classification of any given quality, condition or entity as stratification, which indicates definition and instruction, that defines how things should or can be treated.
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