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
# 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