Abstract: Individual duality is the construction footstone of dual organizational feature scenario; however, the academic world is still confused in their cognition about its generation mechanism. Combined with Chinese context, this paper puts forward the construction of a dual mental model. From the perspective of psychological-interrelated sciences, it performs a vertical analysis of the multiple implications of the dual mental model with a focus on the innovation context. It carries out a questionnaire survey on 689 innovation-related Chinese employees. It also develops a three-dimension measuring tool for the dual mental model, which opens a new path to the study on the individual dual level.

Key words: dual mental model; individual duality; scale development; innovation