Table 4: The levels of overexcitabilities (OEs; Dabrowski, 1996 [77]).
Level |
Sensual OE |
Psychomotor OE |
Imaginational OE |
Intellectual OE |
Emotional OE |
IV |
· Never appears in isolation from other forms of OE · Esthetic sensitivity to the beauty of nature and art · Adds warmth and cordiality in expressing empathy
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· By cooperating with other OE gives them “executive power” · Provides dynamics and energy for decisions and actions · Increased responsibility and punctuality
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· By Linking with other forms of OE plays a role in conscious development of personality · Engagement in the realization of transcendental needs · Merges with the need for mystical experiences |
· By a close linkage with other forms of OE gives rise to creative intelligence · Extensive, universal & multilevel intellectual interest · Inclinations toward synthesis · The desire to be objective in understanding of the hierarchy of values |
· In association with other forms of OE gives rise to higher consciousness Gives rise to · Profound & deep empathy · Depth and exclusivity of relationships of love and friendship · Elevated consciousness |
III |
· Strong linkage with emotional and imaginational OE · Establishes a hierarchy of sensual experience |
· Close linkage with emotional, imaginational & intellectual OE · Search for channels “upward” · Formation of decisiveness
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· Close linkage with emotional, and intellectual OE · Differentiation of imagination and creativity · A growing sense of humor
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· Intensifies the activity of all dynamisms · Enhances awareness · Need for finding the meaning of knowledge and human experience · Intuitive intelligence |
· A union with intellectual and imaginational OE produces dynamisms · Growth of friendship and love · Increases empathy & self-awareness; |
II |
· Short-lived astonishment or disquietude to sensuality |
· Ambivalence and ambitendencies · Intensifies reflexes (trembling of hands and feet, ticks) · Awkwardness of movement |
· Primitive suggestibility (magic, witchcraft) · Taste for fantasy and adventure stories · Frequent dreams and daydreaming |
· Lack of need to get into the meaning of knowledge · One-sided abilities |
· Approach & avoidance · High tension and depression · Weak forms of affective memory |
I |
· Excessing kissing, · Excessing eating, nibbling · Laziness |
· Violent irritability and uncontrolled temper, · Impulse actions · Juvenile delinquency |
· Lack of perspective and retrospective thinking · Tendency to confabulate, lies, and acting |
· Skillfull manipulation of data and information · Intelligence rather than intellectual OE |
· Aggressiveness, irritability, · Lack of control, · Envy, · Need for attention |