Description
Orientation toward grand ideals and transformative vision.
Attraction to strong emotions and dramatic intensity.
Commitment to overarching ideologies and universal principles.
Heroic self-conception and readiness for sacrifice.
Intolerance of alternative worldviews.
Preference for radical over incremental change.
Values eternal truths over practical utility.
Intellectual Level
Universalization
A preference for overarching principles and comprehensive structures
Civilizational Level
Drives transformation and ideological change
Agent of disruption challenging established systems
Social Level
Identification with transcendent causes and their advancement
Psychological Level
Emotional intensity and passionate investment
Spectrum Clusters
The characteristic factors
# ID | Cluster Description |
|---|---|
1 | Passion and idealism versus pragmatism |
2 | Emotional contrast and striving for heroic intensity |
3 | Principle/theory over benefit, expediency, and practice |
4 | Emotional strength (intense emotional life vs calm stability) |
5 | Radicalism versus moderation/compromise |
6 | Militaristic/hierarchical orientation versus egalitarian/peaceful values |
7 | Focus on the general/whole over the particular/individual |
8 | Importance of systematic, structured knowledge and truth-seeking |
9 | Low consideration of others' interests |
10 | Verbal/linguistic retrieval and speech-center efficiency (speech slips) |
11 | Higher truths and intuition over practical benefit |
12 | Miscellaneous physiological and interpersonal sensitivity indicators |
Passion and idealism versus pragmatism
Emotional contrast and striving for heroic intensity
Principle/theory over benefit, expediency, and practice
Emotional strength (intense emotional life vs calm stability)
Radicalism versus moderation/compromise
Militaristic/hierarchical orientation versus egalitarian/peaceful values
Focus on the general/whole over the particular/individual
Importance of systematic, structured knowledge and truth-seeking
Low consideration of others' interests
Verbal/linguistic retrieval and speech-center efficiency (speech slips)
Higher truths and intuition over practical benefit
Miscellaneous physiological and interpersonal sensitivity indicators