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Worldview Themes Structure
for Characterizing Worldviews
Here Project Worldview
themes are summarized using Wikipedia
articles—there are links to roughly 1000 of them!
With a
click you can visit each of the individual Project Worldview web
pages for its 104 worldview themes, where you'll find a roughly 100 word theme description and a great deal more to help you fully understand
the theme. Below you'll also find each of the themes linked to several Wikipedia
articles, with summary article (if available) highlighted and in larger type.
The
article titles themselves—typically with help of accompanying
words—concisely describe the
worldview theme, and/or cover a range of
possibilities inherent to valuing it—including (in some cases as noted) the opposite
of it.
Before covering the worldview themes, we start with an introduction
to the term worldview—
per Project Worldview's take on it,
again communicated through Wikipedia articles.
Note:
this is Version
5.01 (last December 11 2024)—contact us if you'd like
to contribute to refining this structure.
An earlier version 3.11 wiki structure
(based on 81 version 3 worldview
themes) is available here.
Project Worldview Introduction to Worldviews / its wiki summary:
behind a worldview is a conceptual system | worldview | a worldview involves a belief system |
concept | your worldview is your map of Reality | belief |
a worldview is a mental model | able to distinguish between the map and the terrain | your worldview reflects what you value |
mindset | realistic worldviews can make good predictions | value theory |
like a worldview, your life stance centers on what you accept as having ultimate importance |
Project Worldview theme #1A: Humbly Unsure / its wiki summary:
involves feelings of uncertainty | humility | moderate |
temperance | involves feelings of doubt | a fundamental disposition of people, part of human nature |
deference | shyness | sort of opposite of pride (the "refusal to be humiliated") |
Project Worldview theme #1B: Skeptic / its wiki summary:
debunkers often engage in skepticism | skepticism | scientific skepticism |
rationality | it is one of the tools of critical thinking | religious skepticism |
involves questioning | involves expressing doubt | philosophical skepticism |
Project Worldview theme #2A: The True Believer / its wiki summary:
has faith free from doubt | carries belief to an extreme with excess of certitude | falls into confirmation bias trap |
may possess righteousness | may engage in noble cause corruption | The True Believer, book by Eric Hoffer |
often promotes dogma | may promote religious doctrine | true believer syndrome |
Project Worldview theme #2B: I Know What's Best for You / its wiki summary:
typically lobbying for something | often involved in persuasion | has personality trait of assertiveness |
may engage in proselytism | may adopt a paternalism stance | may selflessly display leadership |
may engage in evangelicalism | may be a missionary | may seek a religious conversion |
may be arrogant | may have personality trait of grandiosity | may dispense propaganda |
advertising | persuasion technology | subliminal stimuli may have |
Project Worldview theme #3: Valuing Honesty, Learning / its wiki summary:
highly values honesty | values learning | promotes critical thinking |
values fact checking | promotes cultural evolution through learning | recognizes imitation as important to learning |
fights deception | may be a teacher but is a life-long student | fights misinformation |
meme | gene | universal Darwinism |
Project Worldview theme #4: Spreading Disinformation / Tactical Deception / its wiki summary:
uses deception | lie | dispenses disinformation |
promotes delusion | typically operates in bad faith mode | may use bait and switch |
military deception | may argue for what is perceived as balance: false balance | may employ clickbait |
Project Worldview theme #5A: Scientific Materialism / its wiki summary:
embraces materialism, excludes possibility of immaterial spirit | metaphysical naturalism | looks to matter, energy, physical laws (physicalism) to explain all existence |
rejects dualism | rejects non-rational knowledge, embraces scientism | embraces atheism |
spirituality exists only in the mind / brain as understood by neuroplasticity | universe has no purpose: rejects teleology | origin of life |
Project Worldview theme #5B: Vitalism / its wiki summary:
understanding based on presence of animating force called spirit | vitalism | says consciousness resides in the soul |
has traditional view of spirituality | uses a non-scientific esoteric or spiritual energy in explanations | accepts spiritual or ethereal beings |
accepts reality of life force or odic force | Qi (or Ch'i) | emergentism |
Project Worldview theme #6A: Orderly and Explicable / its wiki summary:
values scientific law | appreciates Ionian Enlightenment roots | recognizes empirical evidence foundation |
appreciates causality | recognizes great chain of being as attempt to bring order | values reason |
appreciates limitations per chaos theory | appreciates value of conceptual framework tool | values logical reasoning |
Project Worldview theme #6B: Scientific Method / its wiki summary:
recognizes importance of measurement | scientific method | appreciates key place of observation |
appreciates history of the scientific method | appreciates value of reductionism in problem solving | values reproducibility |
appreciates rigorous hypothesis testing | recognizes need for careful design of experiments | abhors scientific misconduct |
Project Worldview theme #7A: Mysticism / its wiki summary:
strives to understand consciousness | mysticism | in awe of reports of cosmic consciousness |
recognizes meditation as important tool | values mindfulness | sympathetic to universal sufism |
generally sympathetic to New Age ideas | holographic brain | asceticism |
quantum mysticism | quantum mind | global consciousness project |
Project Worldview theme #7B: Magic / its wiki summary:
aware of link: magic--illusion | believes paranormal phenomena deserve scientific investigation | values this link: magic -- supernatural |
comfortable with mediumship and channeling | may be involved with occult practices | respects shamanism |
may be involved with astrology | may be involved with tarot | may be involved with numerology |
may be intrigued by practical kabbalah | may be intrigued by alchemy | receptive to some pseudoscience |
Project Worldview theme #8A: Monotheistic Deism / its wiki summary:
monotheism | deism | intrigued by natural theology |
God | embraces deistic evolution | won't put down nontheism |
big bang | rejects creation theology | aware of cosmological argument for God |
Project Worldview theme #8B: Belief in a Personal God / its wiki summary:
accepts incarnation of God | personal God | believes in anthropopathism of God |
theistic evolution | believes God performs miracles | values talking with God via prayer |
psychology of religion | God in Abrahamic religions: Christians believe in Personal God; Jews accept applying this belief in metaphorical sense only; Muslims reject | love of God |
Project Worldview
theme #9A: Religious
Fundamentalism /
its wiki summary:
holds
a religious
text
sacred
Fundamentalism--religious
believes God communicates
with revelation
Christian fundamentalists: Biblical
literalism
fundamentalist
Christianity
Christian fundamentalists: Biblical
inerrancy
Islamic
fundamentalism
many would prefer
government by theocracy
evangelicalism
Islamic sharia law
rejects religious
liberalism
Christian
right
orthodox
Judaism
Project Worldview
theme #9B: In God's or Others' Hands: Apocalypticism
/ Millenarianism
its wiki summary:
concerned
with End Times, eschatology
apocalypticism
may
be member of doomsday
cult
may
be UFO
Religion enthusiast
Millenarianism
may
call attention to Alien
Abduction Incidents
may
believe Savior is coming: messianism
apocalyptic
literature
may
look forward to rapture
may
fear armageddon
four
horsemen of the apocalypse
apocalyptic
and post-apocalyptic fiction
Project Worldview
theme #10: Secular Humanism /
its wiki summary:
engaged
in search for meaning: existentialism
values
secular
ethics
secular
humanism
may
like secular
spirituality
asserts inherent dignity
of people
rejects
divine plan or purpose; rejects teleology
values
freethought
tends
to have upbeat view of human
nature
concerned
about human
condition
may subscribe to atheism
firmly
believes in separation
of church and state
secularism
may
like religious
humanism
may
be comfortable with irreligion
may
like naturalism
Project Worldview
theme #11A: Fatalism /
its wiki summary:
believes in destiny
fatalism
may value the
will of God
may believe in predestination
may look for causes behind effects, excessively promote determinism
causality
may
believe in theological
determinism
prediction
prefers
the nature side of nature
vs. nurture
Project Worldview
theme #11B: Free Will /
its wiki summary:
values
self
determination
free
will
may
promote deliberation
more than others
likes
the nurture side of nature
vs. nurture
recognizes free agents have moral
responsibility
make
value personalism
appreciates probability
may believe free will and determinism are compatible: compatibilism
appreciates
factors
limiting predictability
Project Worldview
theme #12A: Polytheism,
Animism, Pagan /
its wiki summary:
believes in many
gods: polytheism
modern
paganism
may believe nature is alive: animism
appreciates historical paganism
may like Wicca
magic
and religion
may
be a New Age
enthusiast
may promote Earth-centered
religion
may
engage in nature
worship
pantheon--religion
Dualism
in Cosmology (some worldviews built around two opposites--evil vs. good, yin
& yang, goddess & god, etc)
traditional African religions
Project Worldview
theme #12B: Non-Rational
Knowing /
its wiki summary:
values
intuition
appreciates much
creativity
resides outside the logical, analytical box
rejects
scientism
instinct
appreciates
the genetic memory
possibility
doesn't
discount dreams
as source of knowledge
prefers
innatism
over tabula rasa
pays
attention to synchronicity
type experiences
appreciates
the collective
unconscious
doesn't
dismiss what psychics
offer
open
to extra-sensory
perception as source of knowledge
appreciates
antireductionism
Project Worldview
theme #13: Complexity--In Our
Hands: Dancing With Systems/ its wiki summary:
living
systems
systems
thinking
systems
theory
modeling biological
systems
systems
biology
systems
ecology
appreciates
emergence
in systems
complexity characterizes
behavior of system w/ interacting components
values
holism in
science
feedback loops
appreciates
12
leverage points to intervene in a system
world
systems theory
Project Worldview
theme
#14A: Salvation and Moralistic God /
its wiki summary:
may
identify conscience
with God's voice
believes
divine
judgment is of fundamental importance
values
concept of sin
believes
in afterlife
rejects
eternal
oblivion upon death
values righteousness
perhaps
battles with guilt
behavior
reflects high value placed on salvation
may have fear
of God
most likely
believes Heaven
is real place
most likely
believes Hell
is
real place
judgment
day
Hell
in Christianity
Sharia (the moral code
and religious law of Islam)
Project Worldview
theme #14B:Moral Arc of
Universe / Karma / Reincarnation /
its wiki summary:
appreciates
wheel
of life concept
enthusiastic
about reincarnation
receptive
to past
life regression possibilities
reincarnation
research
values
concept of karma
open
to genetic
memory
possibility
prefers
innatism
to tabula rasa
karma
in Buddhism
karma
in Hinduism
Project Worldview
theme #15: Group Think
Imperative / its wiki summary:
may succumb to groupthink
collective
cognitive imperative
has personality
characteristic: suggestibility
unable to fight off peer
pressure
may be good candidate
for indoctrination
may
engage in herd
behavior
mind
control
may be good hypnosis
subject
crowd
psychology
the
bandwagon effect
may be good candidate
for joining a cult
hallucination
political
correctness
trance
delusion
religious
conversion
mentality
might be partial relic of ancient brain
bicameralism
Project Worldview
theme #16A: Culture of
Fear /
its wiki summary:
fear
is seldom far from this mind
culture
of fear
may
be victim of fear
mongering
often
perceives a stranger
danger
may
experience moral
panic
fear,
uncertainty, and doubt
derives
security from gun
ownership
believes law-beakers should expect harsh punishment
judgment
clouded by emotional
bias
Project Worldview
theme #16B: Golden
Rule, Village Ethic of Mutual Help /
its wiki summary:
often able to give
others compassion
the
golden rule
may have large capacity for empathy
can go from feeling sympathy
to acting
seeks to understand others' through their mental states: theory of
mind
values
reciprocal
altruism
typically
rejects stranger
danger
often engages in helping
behavior
reciprocity (cultural
anthropology)
can
be a good
Samaritan if needed
often concerned about others' happiness: altruism
silver
rule
Project Worldview
theme
#17A: Bitterness, Vengeance /
its wiki summary:
has a grievance
feels
strong resentment
looking
to assign blame
has something of a victim
mentality
may feel strong need to
seek revenge
perhaps seeking retributive
justice
feeling some degree
of anger
prefers an
eye for an eye to turning the other cheek
the
problem of evil
revenge
porn
feud
rape and
revenge films
Project Worldview
theme
#17B: Gratitude, Forgiveness /
its wiki summary:
working
toward or feeling some degree of gratitude
working toward or
offering some forgiveness
looking for psychological
resilience
struggling to put away feeling of grievance
may be battling
grief
may
feel challenged to offer mercy
little
or no
victim
mentality
prefers
turning the
other cheek
to an eye for an eye
may
be wrestling with the
problem of evil
Project Worldview
theme #18A:
Passionately Impulsive /
its wiki summary:
sometimes passion
overcomes restraint
impulsivity
often acts on
impulse
often
unable to resist temptation
like many addicts, may value sensation
seeking
may suffer from
impulse control disorder
emotions
in decision-making
amygdala hijack
(brain mechanism
behind some emotionally charged responses)
may
value novelty
seeking
Project Worldview
theme #18B: Rational,
Dispassionate /
its wiki summary:
values rationality
possesses
this ability: delayed
gratification
often maintains emotional
detachment
devalues
emotions
in decision-making
uses
executive
functions
(brain mechanisms behind deliberate responses)
passes Stanford
marshmallow experiment
prudence
rational
choice theory
stoicism
Project Worldview
theme #19A: Competitive
Capitalism /
its wiki summary:
typically
values economic
liberalism
believes
in the market
economy
values
competition
in organizing society, economic matters
accepts commodification
believes
wisdom resides in the
market system
a fan of small
business
commodity
values individualism
in economic decision-making
self interest based ethics / values
ethical
egoism
behavioral
economics
appreciates the exchange
value
concept
informal
economy
Project Worldview
theme #19B: Corporate
Capitalism /
its wiki summary:
recognizes
importance of stakeholders
corporate
capitalism
see
advantages of the large corporation
may
encourage corporate
social responsibility
accepts
how capitalism
plays out on modern global stage
market
power
appreciates
need for strategic
management
may value environmental,
social, corporate governance
guidelines
has some understanding of
corporate
governance
ignores
anti-corporate
activist efforts
unlike critics, is not
uncomfortable with increasing corporatocracy
may
overlook corporate
crime
may
like public-private
partnerships
recognizes productivity
as key to competitiveness in the marketplace
Project Worldview
theme #20A: Elitism /
its wiki summary:
may level
criticism of democracy
elitism
most likely
social
class
conscious
may be comfortable with meritocracy
may accept elite
theory and fear democracy is a utopian folly
typically
accepts social
stratification
typically
comfortable with academic
elitism
aristocracy
oligarchy
plutocracy
mixed
government
elective
monarchy
Project Worldview
theme #20B:
Authoritarian Follower /
its wiki summary:
may accept single
party state rule
more
comfortable with authoritarianism
than many other people are
may
prefer right
wing authoritarianism
may accept autocratic
rule
may need social
contract before accepting authoritarian rule
may have
authoritarian
personality
may display obedience
like behavior
may accept
fascism
consent
of the governed
Project Worldview
theme #21A: Idealistic
Populism /
its wiki summary:
may engage in left-wing
populism
populism
may engage in
right
wing populism
typically
supports community
organizing
mob
leader arouses common people against the elite: demagogue
movement grows with appeal
to emotion
values
hard-working people: labor
participatory democracy
may belong to a labor
union
Project Worldview
theme #21B: Service to
Others /
its wiki summary:
may engage in philanthropy
intends
to benefit others: prosocial
behavior
values community
service
may be engaged in public
or civil service
engages in helping
behavior
for various reasons
may
be involved in volunteering
may
feel strong sense of civic
duty
may
play this role: goal of leader is to serve-- servant
leadership
values
volunteerism
Project Worldview
theme #22A: Economic
Growth /
its wiki summary:
sees economic growth as key part of
economic
development
economic
growth
values
job creation / job
creation index
values economic
indicators for measuring economic growth
may especially value use of gross
domestic product
may
see population
growth
as desirable
promotes
productivity
of labor
values
technology
in promoting productivity, economic growth
exponential
growth
Project Worldview
theme #22B: Imperialism
/
its wiki summary:
may promote colonialism
imperialism
see benefits in and generally values
cultural
imperialism
comfortable with capitalist led globalization, neocolonialism
some cultures
superior to others==> ok with ethnocentrism
can
accept national
territorial expansionism
Project Worldview
theme #23A:
Sustainability/
its wiki summary:
ethics extends to
intergenerational equity
sustainability
concerned about global
warming
appreciates how ecosystem
services
benefit humans
see problems with fossil fuel use, values
renewable energy
values
sustainable
development as organizing principle
sees
climate
change as existential threat
sees
steady
state economy as needed alternative to
economic growth
appreciates need for
resource
recycling
Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change
sees
economy as subsystem of biosphere: ecological
economics
sustainability
measurement
Project Worldview
theme #23B: Enoughness /
its wiki summary:
celebrates Buy
Nothing Day
practices voluntary simplicity,
simple living
to some degree
appreciates small
is beautiful philosophy
disdains
consumerism: affluenza
lifestyle perhaps inspired by
religion: Christian
views on poverty & wealth
values
appropriate
technology
criticism
of SUVs
appreciates
sustainable
living type lifestyles
appreciates
tiny
house movement
may
value global citizen ecosharing
type ethic
Project Worldview
theme #24A: Struggling
With a Basic Need: Sustenance/
its wiki summary:
focused on livelihood
may live in or near extreme
poverty
has employment issues
poverty
relates to lack
of adequate shelter / homelessness
has or has had hunger
issues
poverty
threshold
life may be based on hard work, subsistence
agriculture
has or has had drinking
water issues
squatting
at bottom of gulf between rich and poor: economic
inequality
Project Worldview
theme #24B: Creative
Expression/
its wiki summary:
appreciates aesthetics
values creativity
values creative play
may
be artist
identifies with
both motivated and non-motivated functions of art
may
be writer
may
be designer
identifies great art with the sublime
may
be composer
Project Worldview
theme #25: Evil is Out There / its wiki summary:
likely believes in the reality of the Devil
evil
identifies
satanism as
the enemy
may value concept of sin
may
have pondered the related religious problem of evil: theodicy
believes
in the existence of
demons
may be sympathetic to occultism
may
be sympathetic to the practice of exorcism
supports
harsh punishment
as deterrent
in
Christianity, the Devil is the personification of evil
Project Worldview
theme #26A: The
Consumerist/
its wiki summary:
enjoys
shopping
consumerism
no problem w/ marketing, advertising==>supports
commercialism
may engage in consumer
activism
values having things, economic
materialism
may advocate for consumer
bill of rights
accepts
throw away
society
may use economic freedom
of choice argument vs. critics
may
engage in hyperconsumerism
values luxury
goods
Project Worldview
theme #26B: More is
Better Mentality / Abundance/
its wiki summary:
not concerned about obesity
defends and/or engages in conspicuous
consumption
ties personal empowerment
to big things
may
engage in or be sympathetic to gluttony
defends right to and/or lives in large house (McMansion)
may
like Abundant
Life religious teaching
Super
Size Me film
may
drive
SUV or large truck, defends right to do so vs. critics
may
be influenced by prosperity
theology
Project Worldview theme #27: The Smaller Producer / its wiki summary:
may be an accomplished handyman |
may be involved in gardening or small farming | may practice subsistence agriculture |
may engage in handicraft | may practice permaculture | may engage in sewing |
may engage in animal husbandry | devoted to philosophy and practice of do it yourself | values manual labor |
sympathetic to back to the land movement | may engage in or be sympathetic to homesteading | may be involved in anti-consumerism |
may be imaginative, creative, and rejects functional fixedness |
Project Worldview theme #28A: Hedonistic Orientation/ its wiki summary:
may live playboy lifestyle | hedonism | values and seeks out pleasure |
finds pleasure in what some call victimless crimes | knowledgeable love of good food and drink Epicureanism | guided by immature feelings /pleasure principle |
may enjoy pornography | may engage in recreational drug use | open marriage styles |
Project Worldview theme #28B: Healthy Orientation/ its wiki summary:
values physical exercise | health | recognizes mind/body connection and importance of health psychology |
follows news reports from medicine | makes lifestyle changes based on preventive medicine | nutrition |
avoids unhealthy activities, minimizes stress | follows latest nutritional guidelines, values healthy diet | recognizes importance of genetic factors |
knowledgeable regarding cancer prevention | knowledgeable regarding cardiovascular disease prevention | placebo |
Project Worldview theme #29A: The Self-Restrained Person/ its wiki summary:
possesses this ability: delayed gratification | self control | behavior guided by well-developed conscience |
behaves to produce guilt-free existence | exhibits adult maturity per reality principle, not pleasure principle | behavior may reflect goal orientation |
abstinence | perhaps spiritually motivated restraint carried to extreme: asceticism | inhibitory control |
Project Worldview theme #29B: Taking Charge==> Violence / its wiki summary:
may engage in violence | may be involved in coercion | behavior associated with aggression |
may engage in bullying | participates in creating culture of fear | may engage in intimidation |
may work to instill fear | may engage in blackmail | may engage in extortion |
may be involved in terrorism | may threaten or file a lawsuit | may engage in relational aggression |
rape | may participate in domestic violence |
Project Worldview theme #30: Imagination, Curiosity, Intellectual Freedom / its wiki summary:
has good imagination | possesses lots of intellectual curiosity (wonders "why?" and "what if...?"etc. ) | values freedom of thought |
values creativity | interested in learning, resolving doubt, problem solving==> values inquiry | values intellectual freedom |
may engage in divergent thinking | recognizes storytelling can foster imagination capability | typically likes discovery learning |
values freedom of the press | behavior diametrically opposite of exhibiting functional fixedness | inquiry education |
values academic freedom |
Project Worldview theme #31: Education for Democracy / its wiki summary:
values democracy | supports public education | may have interest in philosophy of education |
promotes citizenship education | values advancing the common well-being, public interest | representative democracy |
inclusive democracy | values critical thinking skills | participatory democracy |
democracy index | may value character education | taxonomy of educational objectives |
Project Worldview theme #32A: Human Rights/ its wiki summary:
able to distinguish natural rights and legal rights | human rights | asserts universal right to a fair trial |
supports freedom of religion | values universal, egalitarian approach to human rights | supports freedom of speech |
wishes wishes to outlaw discrimination | supports UN 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights | supports International Criminal Court |
supports marriage equality (same sex marriage) | international human rights instruments | international human rights law |
Project Worldview theme #32B: Culture of Tolerance / its wiki summary:
promotes religious toleration | toleration | promotes equal opportunity |
accepts religious pluralism crimination | fights discrimination by encouraging teaching tolerance | understands cultural relativism |
paradox of tolerance | likes multiculturalism | understands nonsectarian orientation |
Project Worldview theme #33A: Servitude--Suffering, Enabling, or Enslaving / its wiki summary:
may be a prisoner: incarceration | may be trapped in unpaid labor: involuntary servitude | may live in condition of slavery |
prisons | may be a victim of human trafficking | may live in condition of serfdom |
slave narrative | may be a victim of poverty and debt (bondage) | may live subjected to domestic violence |
may have to work a detested job: wage slavery | may be a soldier--something not freely chosen / conscription | reparations for slavery |
Project Worldview theme #33B: Addiction / its wiki summary:
may likely have a behavioral addiction | addiction | may have a substance dependence |
may have problem with alcoholism | may have problem with tobacco use | may have substance use disorder |
may have problem with heroin | may have problem gambling | addictive personality |
addiction psychology | addiction vulnerability | addiction psychology |
Project Worldview theme #34: Valuing Traditions, Status Quo / its wiki summary:
respects traditional values | values tradition (rituals, customs, beliefs, etc. passed down) | accepts traditional authority |
respects traditional knowledge | promotes maintenance of traditional institutions (conservatism) | emotional bias toward status quo |
tends to respect ritual | may value Christian sacred tradition | may value Confucianism |
may practice ancestor worship | may value filial piety | accepts traditional gender roles |
Project Worldview theme #35A: Sharing What Many Consider Very Private/ its wiki summary:
values authenticity | likely accepts and may engage in homosexuality | may accept or practice polyamory |
has tendency toward transparency | likely accepts and may engage in gay sexual practices | may be queer |
generally rejects conformity | may have experienced gender dysphoria | gender equality |
childhood gender nonconformity | ambivalent sexism | sex reassignment surgery |
Project Worldview theme #35B: Working for Change / its wiki summary:
may be involved in political campaigns | with desire to change society for the better, engages in activism | may be environmental activist |
may engage in lobbying | may engage in community organizing | appreciates collective action |
may value social justice | known to support social movements | may value economic progressivism |
may be whistleblower | supports grassroots movements | appreciates civil disobedience |
Project Worldview theme #36A: Cynicism its wiki summary:
disturbed by hypocrisy | Cynicism (contemporary) | despairs over corruption |
despairs over demagogy | attitude of cultural pessimism, rejects belief world becoming better | disturbed by political corruption |
despairs over corporate crime | disgusted with humans, human nature ==>misanthropy | cynical about economic democracy, points to corporatocracy |
Project Worldview theme #36B: Conspiracies / its wiki summary:
conspiracy--some are real, many are imagined! | conspiracy theory | simplistic black/white analysis: manichaeism |
may promote pseudohistory | thinking influenced by paranoia | may believe and/or promote fake news |
values telling a story / uses narrative form | enjoys retelling / embellishing modern folklore / legend | may be warrior in culture war |
Project Worldview theme #37A: Proud Identification & Tribalism/ its wiki summary:
may have feelings of patriotism | feels satisfied sense of attachment to some group: pride | appreciates identity politics |
tribe | may identify with particular ethnic group, values ethnic nationalism | nationalism |
tribalism may largely define preferences | may have feelings of religious nationalism | may value national symbol(s) |
chauvinism | fits into in-group and out-group discriminatory pattern | ethnocentrism |
Project Worldview theme #37B: Global Citizen/ its wiki summary:
supports global citizens movement | global citizenship | identifies as global citizen or world citizen |
supports global citizenship education | seeks to globally apply universality principle: moral universalism | promotes global civics |
the global citizen festival | global justice concerns, rejects "no global ethical standards exist" | may have anti-nationalism feelings |
ridicules New World Order conspiracy idea | prefers cosmopolitanism approach to global justice |
Project Worldview theme #38: Love as Family Glue / its wiki summary:
parenting | may feel unconditional love for family member(s) | extended family |
parenting styles | inclusive: may be comfortable with non-traditional family definition | puts family needs above individuals': familialism |
kinship | exclusive: may accept pro nuclear family tradition, family values | may be strong supporter of traditional marriage |
Eastern tradition: respect for parents: filial piety | maybe has been spared dysfunctional family woes | may be a cosseting or helicopter parent |
Project Worldview theme #39A: Tough Love / its wiki summary:
believes in and employs corrective feedback | tough love | rejects enabling, rescuing parenting approach |
may demand unquestioning obedience | may use demanding but responsive authoritative parenting/ mentoring | may employ shame |
may engage in mentoring | may have to deal with dysfunctional family woes | may look to drug rehabilitation programs for help |
may use corporal punishment | values learning from mistakes, discovery learning teaching approach | paternalism |
Project Worldview theme #39B: Blaming / Scapegoating / its wiki summary:
often practices discrimination | scapegoating | comfortable with dehumanization of others |
may direct hate speech toward person or group | often acts out of prejudice | may promote misogyny |
may condone hate crime | may subscribe to white supremacy | may practice or condone anti-semitism |
may promote racism | may promote racial segregation | may condone genocide |
witch hunt | may use anti-LGBT rhetoric | shame |
xenophobia | The Holocaust | online shaming |
Project Worldview theme #40: Environmental Economics/ its wiki summary:
ecological economics | Environmental Economics | may prefer emissions trading schemes |
carbon footprint | appreciates need for carbon tax or related market scheme | promotes efficient energy use |
promotes renewable energy commercialization | sees added pollution and resource depletion tied to market failure | feels market fails to value ecosystem services |
urges an end to fossil fuel subsidies | wants to factor natural capital into economic analyzes | prefers genuine progress indicator to GDP use |
environmental finance | appreciates need for environmental impact assessment | environmental, social and corporate governance |
Project Worldview theme #41:Struggling With a Basic Need: Self-Esteem / its wiki summary:
may still be gathering self-knowledge | self esteem | may often experience anxiety |
may be continually refining self concept | may suffer from emotional scars left by past traumatic event | may be suffering from clinical depression |
may suffer from low self esteem | personality may be heavy on neuroticism | needs to develop more psychological resilience |
working to build emotional intelligence | may have learned to extend compassion to oneself: self-compassion | defense mechanisms |
may benefit from psychotherapy | perhaps has overcome past difficulties, working toward self actualization |
Project Worldview theme #42: Ethical Orientation / its wiki summary:
applied ethics | values human capability for empathy, well being of others: secular ethics | actions show respect for professional ethics |
actions avoid conflict of interest | actions characterized by honesty, respect for law, and integrity | generally respects the rule of law |
may live in accordance with ethical code | promotes greatest overall happiness based ethics /utilitarianism | values distributive justice |
business ethics | environmental ethics | research ethics |
Project Worldview theme #43: Seeking Wealth and Power/ its wiki summary:
self-centered excessive desire for wealth: greed | wealth | values having more control over life, more power |
may pursue acquisition of wealth illegally: theft | values financial literacy and uses skills to increase wealth | may seek social status |
may value Social Darwinism | values central tenet of capitalism: capital accumulation | the distribution of wealth |
kleptocracy | may be manipulative, callous, immoral: machiavellian | may believe in The Gospel of Wealth |
Project Worldview theme #44A: Sanctity and Dignity of Life / its wiki summary:
opposes any ending the life of unborn through abortion | culture of life | opposes allowing so-called mercy killing: euthanasia |
highly values sanctity of life | opposes capital punishment (legal method to end life of bad criminal) | consistent life ethic |
opposes assisted suicide | has bioethics related concerns about certain biotechnologies | supports Right to Life movement |
supports fetal rights | stem cell research | may oppose all genetic engineering |
Project Worldview theme #44B: Hands Off My Body / its wiki summary:
values bodily integrity | supports abortion rights movement | prefers pro-choice name for movement |
believes in prevention and birth control | all children should be wanted: values family planning | supports right to pursue assisted suicide |
realizes death can foster new life--example: extinction event | supports NARAL Pro-Choice America movement | may be concerned about population growth |
Project Worldview theme #45A:Borrowing Mentality / its wiki summary:
may have or appreciate opportunity to get mortgage loan(s) | may have good understanding of debt-related terms/procedures | credit card debt |
appreciates credit card convenience and value | may often be late paying bills==> accumulates credit card debt | may still respect those who declare bankruptcy |
may understand simple vs. compound interest | values using debt in purchasing an asset: leverage | may be unaware of criticism of debt |
consumer debt | may not be particularly concerned with level of government debt | may be lacking in delayed gratification ability |
may not be particularly concerned with student debt |
Project Worldview theme #45B: Work, Play, Pay as You Go / its wiki summary:
practices putting money aside for later use / saving | operates within constraints of personal budget | likes balance budgets |
possesses good delayed gratification ability | recognizes obligations--including financial ones-- limit freedom | may contribute more sweat equity than money |
values minimizing incurring ecological debt | recognizes obligations--including financial ones-- can lead to guilt | appreciates criticism of debt |
may appreciate microcredit | values fairness and justice associated with intergenerational equity | may practice frugality |
may understand time value of money | promotes mutually beneficial intergenerationality relationships | may value Protestant work ethic |
Project Worldview theme #46A: Technological Fix/ its wiki summary:
looks to technology to solve problems | technological fix | has faith in the engineering design process |
prefers technocentrism to ecocentrism | supports technological change driving social change, empowering people | has faith in technology assessment |
precautionary principle | prefers technoprogressivism to bioconservatism | typically dismisses criticism of technology |
Project Worldview theme #46B: Military Backers / its wiki summary:
likely has military service experience | militarism | values military tradition |
may be a professional warrior | comfortable with military discipline / chain of command | urges military budget be made a priority |
urges combat readiness | may believe war not inherently bad, can even be beneficial to society | supports military schools |
promotes military technology development | perhaps, given desire to avoid war, values diplomacy, deterrence theory | military courtesy |
Project Worldview theme #47A: Attitudinal Fix / its wiki summary:
appreciates cognitive, emotional factors in attitude change | attitudinal fix | recognizes attitude acquired through experience and greatly influences future actions |
realizes social influences can change attitudes | values fair play, interpersonal communication people skills | finding common ground==> conflict resolution |
diplomacy | encourages dialogue, negotiation to reach compromise | mediation |
realizes confirmation bias leads to greater attitude polarization |
Project Worldview theme #47B: Pacifism / Non-Violence/ its wiki summary:
rejects all militarism including conscription | pacifism | anti-militarism |
civil resistance: non-violent political action | chooses non-violent resistance when others would use violence | appreciates peace churches |
values arms control efforts | may accept non-aggression principle, unlike strict pacifists | ahimsa (Indian concept related to "do no harm") |
anarcho-pacifism | believes diplomacy should be exhausted before anyone considers war | shalom (Hebrew concept related to peace, well-being |
Project Worldview theme #48A: Privacy / its wiki summary:
will typically fight bodily integrity invasions | Privacy | often asserts right to privacy |
works to minimize digital footprint | has privacy concerns related to tracking cookies | often seeks confidentiality |
may use anonymity to bolster privacy | may want to avoid being disturbed by others, seeks serenity | seeks security to avoid harm, injury |
Project Worldview theme #48B: Liking Co-operation Based Communities / its wiki summary:
prefers co-operation to competition | values co-operative economics | values community economics |
likes grass roots democracy | likes worker or consumer owned businesses/ co-operatives | history of the co-operative movement |
community based organizations | would like power to shift away from corporate elite: economic democracy | intentional community |
likes community supported agriculture | prefers decentralized economic or government structures | may live in ecovillage |
worker co-operatives | consumer co-operatives | may live in cohousing community |
may embrace bioregionalism perspective |
Project Worldview theme #49A: Social Welfare Statism/ its wiki summary:
supports government welfare programs | welfare state | welfare economics |
accepts higher taxes for more services | values the common good, social welfare, and the public interest | values social safety net concept |
supports providing public housing | social welfare model includes taxes, social insurance, public services, jobs | supports social insurance / social security |
accepts public-private partnerships | sees need for government meddling in markets: economic interventionism | |
public sector | public interest | may support universal basic income |
Project Worldview theme #49B: Idealistic Socialism / its wiki summary:
(naively?) believes others act out of altruism | socialism | embraces anti-capitalism |
values the common good, social welfare | typically believes in social ownership of the means of production | dislikes capitalist mode of production |
values egalitarianism | values strong state, centralized economic planning | not adverse to government using nationalization |
comfortable with collectivism | may prefer single party controlled socialist market economy (China model) | may prefer market socialism |
may prefer democratic socialism with social ownership | may carry idealism to extreme and prefer communism | may prefer social democracy with capitalist mode of production |
values social justice | may value social class conflict route to socialism per Marxism | may like labor theory of value |
Project Worldview theme #50A: Libertarian/ its wiki summary:
strongly values liberty | libertarianism | strongly values freedom |
strong supporter of civil liberties | values freedom of choice unconstrained except by non-aggression principle | much prefers individualism over collectivism |
values self-ownership and own labor | promotes extreme (dangerous?) version of freedom of speech rights | rejects modern welfare state |
values laissez faire capitalism | values free markets, limited role of state, right-libertarianism | big fan of private property rights |
may denigrate common good notion | sees virtue in selfishness, embraces ethical egoism, rejects altruism | may be admirer of Ayn Rand |
rejects coercion: non-aggression principle | extreme belief in private property ==>abolishes state / anarcho-capitalism | objectivism |
Project Worldview theme #50B: Left Anarchism / its wiki summary:
social anarchism | anarchism | abolition of private ownership==> anti-capitalism |
left-right political spectrum | prefers no government===>values stateless society | skeptical of private ownership: left libertarianism |
values egalitarianism | may prefer collectivist anarchism / labor-based compensation | labor theory of value |
values communitarianism | may value anarchist communism / need based distribution | anarchist economics |
may appreciate co-operative economics | may instead prefer individualist anarchism | issues in anarchism |
Project Worldview theme #51A: Ethical Globalization / its wiki summary:
globalization | global justice movement | wants all global citizens to have voice: democratic globalization |
supports international trade regulation | bothered by, applauds efforts to reduce international inequality | international development |
supports United Nations system | critical of globalization as driven by corporate capitalism | supports UN Sustainable Development Goals |
supports cultural heritage protection | looks to technology transfer to improve life in poor countries | may support steps toward world government |
cultural globalization | economic globalization | political globalization |
hopes to defeat resource curse plaguing underdeveloped world |
Project Worldview theme #51B: Big Business Pushes Global Limits/ its wiki summary:
big supporter of multinational corporations | promotes aggressively pushing resource extraction / extractivism | supports carbon capture and storage |
hopes to delay fossil fuel phase-out | accepts perpetuating resource curse plaguing underdeveloped world | supports mining industry |
supports energy development | promotes geoengineering as solution to climate change problem | asteroid mining |
fusion power | supports developing space-based economy | rejects degrowth movement ideas |
Project Worldview theme #52: Physically Challenged==> Independent Living / its wiki summary:
supports disability rights movement | supports goal of independent living for people with disabilities, old age | independent senior living |
may be struggling with chronic illness | may be struggling to overcome disability | fights disability discrimination / ableism |
supports accessibility accommodations | may be struggling to cope with problems of old age | deaf culture |
elderly care | value a person's right to make own life decisions/ self advocacy | assisted living |
Project Worldview theme #101A: Mind Open, Vision Global / its wiki summary:
evolution = change over long time periods | open mindedness | values chronology / philosophy of history |
appreciates how natural selection works | may score high on openness to experience measure of this personality trait | appreciates biogeochemical cycles |
appreciates geologic time scale | recognizes by studying history can we one avoid past mistakes | appreciates vastness of the universe |
appreciates human evolution | appreciates timeline of evolutionary history of life | appreciates large distance measures |
Project Worldview theme #101B: Mind Narrowly Focused/ its wiki summary:
has mental map confined in time and space | values focusing on present moment without evaluation: mindfulness | may prefer narrowly framing thoughts |
may value KISS Principle | has less tolerance for cognitive inconsistency /cognitive dissonance | reality tunnel |
may be more splitter than lumper? | defense mechanism to avoid cognitive dissonance: compartmentalization | spatial cognition |
good ability to concentrate or focus on something / attentional control |
Project Worldview theme #102A: Conscientious, Efficient Stewardship / its wiki summary:
may tend to perfectionism | may score high on conscientiousness measure of this personality trait | internally consults value system: conscience |
obsessive compulsive disorder | values ability to avoid wasting materials, money, effort, time: efficiency | may have goal orientation |
values responsible planning and management: stewardship | may be more task than relationship oriented |
Project Worldview theme #102B: Easy-Going, Disorderly, Cavalier / its wiki summary:
less uptight, more relaxed than many are | exhibits more toleration of mistakes or imperfections than many others do | may be more relationship than task oriented |
stress management | can live with more disorder than many other people can | may use humor to reduce tension, manage stress |
may be more extravert than introvert | responses typically come more from central nervous system than conscience |
Project Worldview theme #103A: Individual Glory / its wiki summary:
may have tendency toward selfishness | may strive to maintain inflated opinion of oneself: egotism | may live more in self centered world than some |
strongly prefers individualism to collectivism | may enjoy winning, engage more in zero sum thinking than others do | more of a lone wolf than some / social isolation |
may have tendency toward narcissism | may engage more in basking in reflected glory than others do | tends toward egocentrism |
tends more to self-reliance / self-sustainability than others |
Project Worldview theme #103B: Celebrating Team Accomplishments/ its wiki summary:
values group cohesiveness | very much a team player, enjoys teamwork | values social connection as antidote to loneliness |
may prefer co-operation to competition | may prefer collectivism to individualism | values taking collective action to reach goal |
labor movement | looks to create win-win situations rather than engage in zero sum thinking | collective action problem (involving free riders) |
values people joining to achieve common goal as in a labor union |
Project Worldview theme #104A: Human-Centered / its wiki summary:
accepts speciesism prejudices | anthropocentrism | may exhibit environmental skepticism |
anti-environmentalism | typically supports wise use movement and associated philosophy | may oppose land-use planning restrictions |
accepts factory farming practices | comfortable with commodification and valuing based on usefulness to humans | may value prosperity theology, |
may support geoengineering | may place humans at top of Great Chain of Being, beneath God | may highly value their own salvation |
Project Worldview theme #104B: Respect for Nature/ its wiki summary:
urges good stewardship of nature | ecocentrism | typically has reverence for wilderness |
appreciates integrity of ecosystems | appreciates deep ecology | appreciates nature conservation issues |
appreciates biogeochemical cycles | believes in animal rights, treating them with dignity, respect extended to people | values biodiversity |
living planet index | may identify God with all nature, all Reality: pantheism | values land ethic |
animal testing | may appreciate Gaia philosophy | may have eco-feminist perspective |
appreciates relationship between animal ethics and environmental ethics |
Project Worldview theme #201A: Evidence-Based/ its wiki summary:
values rationality | evidence | seeks to build belief system on reason, evidence |
concepts used in building framework | appreciates key role of observation in gathering evidence | recognizes empirical evidence foundation |
worldview--framework for understanding | realistic worldviews can make good predictions | values logical reasoning |
rigorous application: scientific method | worldviews are refined with learning, corrective feedback process | medicine provides example: evidence based practice |
can accept disturbing parts of Reality | evidence insufficient to make decision: underdetermination | building on what others find: consensus reality |
rejects belief in afterlife: can accept likelihood of eternal oblivion upon death |
Project Worldview theme #201B: Positive Expectations/ its wiki summary:
values optimistic state of mind: hope | optimism bias distorts person's assessment of likelihood of bad outcome | has (unjustified?) confidence or trust: faith |
has more optimism than warranted? | certain beliefs can be recognized as healthy, useful fiction / positive psychology | faith and rationality |
rejects evidence, holds false belief | forms beliefs based on what is pleasing to imagine: wishful thinking | appreciates framing effect_(psychology) |
may admit to self-deception | when positive expectations improve outcome: placebo effect | suppressing negative emotions: toxic positivity |
may believe in afterlife | may refuse to accept what evidence shows is true: denial | may believe in alternate history: pseudohistory |
Project Worldview theme #202A: Cautious Processing / its wiki summary:
may often feel anxiety | recognizes information is needed to resolve uncertainty about some situation | may feel fear or be able to readily recall that feeling |
has memory of pain suffered | personality may have higher harm avoidance than normal | very slow to extend trust in relationships |
self concept | personality may have higher negative affectivity than normal | may harbor resentment |
stress | may unconsciously employ defense mechanisms to fight anxiety, stress | Dukkha (Buddhist concept of pain, suffering) |
Project Worldview theme #202B: Relaxed, Generous, Loving / its wiki summary:
displays generosity | values deep interpersonal affection: love | displays absence of tension, anxiety: relaxation |
values interpersonal relationships | values human bonding and living with benefits of such bonds | readily extends trust in relationships |
biochemical basis: oxytocin | values caring in intimate relationships | easily engages in helping behavior |
Project Worldview theme #203A: Hierarchical Rigidity/ its wiki summary:
values social hierarchy | scores high on social dominance orientation support for social hierarchy | typically values social status |
may support patriarchy | typically tends toward conservatism | may support paternalistic conservatism |
may exhibit mentality rigidity | engages in group-based discrimination per social dominance theory | may support traditionalist conservatism |
academic ranks in the United States | appreciates chain of command | caste system in India |
Project Worldview theme #203B: Egalitarian Progressive/ its wiki summary:
values egalitarianism | typically supports social reform causes associated with progressivism | values social justice |
supports progressive taxation | supports fight against economic inequality | values economic progressivism |
appreciates collective action | fights previous discrimination by supporting affirmative action | progressive Christianity |
may support utilitarianism | liberalism and progressivism within Islam |
Project Worldview theme #204A: Freedom from Limits/ its wiki summary:
supports deregulation |
freedom | dislikes regulatory economics |
anti-environmentalism | typically supports wise use movement and associated philosophy | big fan of private property rights |
rejects degrowth movement ideas | promotes extreme (dangerous?) version of freedom of speech rights | may promote geoengineering |
may promote space colonization | values freedom of choice unconstrained by external parties |
Project Worldview theme #204B: Limits and Ethics/ its wiki summary:
values environmental ethics | secular ethics | supports zero population growth |
may practice veganism | would exclude hate speech, disinformation from freedom of speech rights | concerned about human overpopulation |
values climate ethics | concerned about tragedy of the commons situations | sees climate change as existential threat |
two child policy | concerned about risks of collapse of civilization: collapsology | generally supports regulatory economics |
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