Valued E + L

Unvalued P + R

Description

Affective idealism

Valued emotional intensity and absolute principles.

Life animated by grand ideals and supra-individual identity.

Meaning found in conviction and shared mission.

Universal over personal - causes worthy of sacrifice.

General Meaning

Ideal transcendence

Intellectual Level

Paradigmatic reasoning

Social Level

Commitment to collective structures in service of transcendent ends

Psychological Level

Strong, passionate emotions

Physical Level

High excitatory tone

Spectrum Clusters

The characteristic factors

1
Cluster Description

Passion and idealism versus pragmatism

2
Cluster Description

Emotional contrast and striving for heroic intensity

3
Cluster Description

Principle/theory over benefit, expediency, and practice

4
Cluster Description

Emotional strength (intense emotional life vs calm stability)

5
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Radicalism versus moderation/compromise

6
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Militaristic/hierarchical orientation versus egalitarian/peaceful values

7
Cluster Description

Focus on the general/whole over the particular/individual

8
Cluster Description

Importance of systematic, structured knowledge and truth-seeking

9
Cluster Description

Low consideration of others' interests

10
Cluster Description

Verbal/linguistic retrieval and speech-center efficiency (speech slips)

11
Cluster Description

Higher truths and intuition over practical benefit

12
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Miscellaneous physiological and interpersonal sensitivity indicators