The rule consciousness as one of the primary factors of personality out of sixteen as categorized by Raymond Cattell, 1946 as low and high level.[1] The descriptors of low level rule consciousness are expedient, nonconforming, disregards rules, self-indulgent or having a low super ego strength while the high level consciousness are rule-conscious, dutiful, conscientious, conforming, moralistic, staid, rule bound or having high super ego strength.[1][2]

A theory also associates rule consciousness as the "original apperception", which is a Kantian concept of a mental state in which we perceive special kinds of non-spatial inner objects.[3] Jean Piaget also studied rule consciousness between boys and girls in the context of games.[4]

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  2. ^ Nicholas, Lionel (2008). Introduction to Psychology, Second Edition. Cape Town: UCT Press. p. 218. ISBN 978-1-919895-02-4.
  3. ^ Heinämaa, Sara; Reuter, Martina (2008). Psychology and Philosophy: Inquiries into the Soul from Late Scholasticism to Contemporary Thought. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 147. ISBN 978-1-4020-8581-9.
  4. ^ Flanagan, Owen J.; Flanagan, Owen J. (1993). Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 174. ISBN 0-674-93218-8.