Valued E + L

Unvalued P + R

Description

Passionate 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 supra-personal structures driven by higher ideals

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
Cluster Description

Radicalism versus moderation/compromise

6
Cluster Description

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
Cluster Description

Miscellaneous physiological and interpersonal sensitivity indicators