Passionarism
Romantic disposition
Passion and greater causes as the primary criterion of value and action.
Ardent commitment serves transcendent ideals.
Grand aims are embraced whatever the cost.
Disputes are settled radically, without compromise or dissent.
General Meaning
Absolutivity
Biological Level
Maxima-seeking exertion
Cognitive Level
Axiom-first evaluation, contrast over nuance
Psychological Level
High-amplitude, undiluted emotions
Social Level
Fervent mobilization toward overarching causes
Clusters
Agree
- In emotions I am usually drawn to their force and passion.
- I like people with strong emotions.
Disagree
- I really do dislike needless philosophizing about anything.
- My head is often busy with how to save on some small thing.
Agree
- I prefer the language of strong, clear emotions, not halftones.
- I love strong, rising, rousing music with percussion.
Disagree
- A calm life is always worth more than defending abstract principles.
- I take in logical arguments better when delivered in a quiet, calm voice.
Agree
- Military marches lift me up.
Disagree
- Loud laughter strikes me as vulgar.
- The way some people talk loudly gets on my nerves.
Agree
- Weapons fascinate me.
Agree
- I favor radical changes in the order of the world.
- I really dislike moderate, compromise solutions.
Disagree
- I am usually ready to compromise on almost any question if rewarded for it.
- I prefer reading writers on simple, everyday human life.
Agree
- I can keep myself amused with nonsense of no practical use.
- I love many operettas and musical comedies.
Disagree
- I always prefer even emotions in others, without outbursts.
- I dislike any rising buildup of feeling, in life or in books.
Agree
- I am usually more interested in theory than in practice.
- Principle usually matters more to me than present expediency.
Disagree
- Questions of money, prices and salaries are always interesting to me.
- Use and common sense matter more than rules and laws.
Agree
- I can picture myself doing something brave in combat.
- The idea of a soldier's service speaks to me.
Disagree
- Tales of self-sacrifice put me off.
Agree
- When someone insults me, I start yelling.
Disagree
- I have a knack for diplomacy and do not push where it will fail.
Agree
- The country must be shielded from foreign influence.
Disagree
- I always have room in my mind to hear objections.
Agree
- Indifference to ideology seems wrong to me.
- Movements with great ideas draw me in.
Disagree
- My relatives come right after me, ideas a distant third.
- Live and let everyone else live their own way.
Agree
- Money matters less to me than to most people.
- I look for truth with no practical aim.
Disagree
- My first question is whether something pays off.
- To me everything has its price.
Agree
- I would bring back dueling.
Disagree
- Profit matters more to me than punishing someone.
Agree
- Someone with no homeland is missing something essential.
Disagree
- National pride is not worth years of hardship for ordinary people.
Agree
- Space research deserves far more money.
- Humanity's future occupies me more than most people.
Disagree
- Theories leave me cold, I want close and concrete work.
Agree
- I love discussing funny paradoxes and sophisms.
- I love absorbing or building theories of my own.
Disagree
- Truth seekers who say whatever is on their mind seem harmful to me.
- I regard fantasies far removed from real needs with irony.
Agree
- More money should go to the security forces.
- I warm to people who think in terms of empire.
Disagree
- Even the highest state interests cannot override the law.
Agree
- I feel a kinship with those who dreamed of changing history.
Disagree
- I quickly spot the weak points in other people's character.
Agree
- The beauty of a clear, perfect structure almost always inspires me.
- I greatly value historical truth.
Disagree
- Most people have too much education, more than society needs.
- At school and college I mostly read only what I could not avoid.
Agree
- The greatest feats are feats of arms.
- I love watching military parades.
Disagree
- My main principle in life is live and let live.
- Films where one fight follows another plainly bore me.
Disagree
- I always think through how my affairs may affect others.
- When I make business plans, I always give large place to my partners' interests.
Agree
- I am very interested in philosophical concepts of how the world is ordered.
- I love evaluating, comparing and classifying everything I meet.
Disagree
- What I see is not society as a whole but specific people.
Disagree
- When writing by hand I sometimes automatically put the wrong letter in a word.
- Sometimes I look at an object and cannot immediately recall its name.