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the immediate response, (2) the reflective delay, and (3) the active solution. Of these three stages of action, reflective delay is the most significant in showing individual differences between men. For here, men vary from one another most widely in the balance and strength of the forces working during this stage of action.
Jones never “stops to think.” He leaps into action the instant he is aroused. Smith is canny. He holds back; he puts off decisions until the last moment. He infuriates Jones by pondering every detail, by conjuring up all sorts of difficulties. Robbins gets excited and starts to do something drastic, then suddenly goes cold and accomplishes nothing. Here are three common individual differences, among tens of thousands, which spring mainly from variations in the reflective delay, though partly, also, from the other two phases of behavior.
Each of us responds in some peculiar and unique manner. We are not all equally sensitive, nor do we feel pleasure and pain identically. Least of all are our emotions alike. One of us is never frightened, while his brother suffers the hell of endless petty terrors. The highest individuality, at least so far as story presentation goes, probably is to be seen in the blend of the two chief factors of the delayed response, which we call emotional and intellectual behavior.
The emotional behavior is an attitude toward something which involves our personal action. The intellectual behavior is an attitude toward something more or less detached from any immediate action. In an instant of thinking, we “stop, look, and listen.” We consider, analyze, recall, imagine, and guess. While the instant lasts,