Thinking types & Feeling types

[see: Whittington & Dewar 2000]

W&D note that Feeling types showed a clear preference for posting on the informal areas of the discussion board. They develop relationships with other research participants. The Thinking styles posted little in the informal area and confined their comments to research areas. Thinking styles attend more to ideas, and Feeling types are concerned with creating relationships.

I wonder if this should be borne in mind when thinking about how new student use or not, weblogs? Do students who use weblogs informally, socially, prior to starting university do so for the social interaction... because they are Feeling types? If these students subsequently fail to use them in an educational context is this because they have been repurposed for something other than the informal use the students equated them with? Or, might students who didn't use them socially (i.e. because they are Thinking Types?) now find them useful in a learning context, for recording ideas?

[tag: personality]