Conventionalist Emotional Characteristic (CEC): An emotional behavioral characteristic and Cluster C personality disorder rooted in the political psyche. CEC is acquired when people who are highly predisposed to suggestion develop a deeply ingrained and binding emotional attachment to the conventions of their particular sociopolitical system, its institutions, and its social norms. The impetus of the development of CEC is inculcation from officially controlled information sources often leading to emotional adherence to a particular sanctioned ideology or political party, depending on dominance of one’s political perspective. People with CEC will emotionally defend popular social conventions against anyone who questions, challenges, or criticizes the legitimacy of these conventions. Physiologically, the symptoms of CEC are usually triggered by dissonance created by the challenges associated with evidence that may contradict sanctioned information. Relief of dissonance is usually achieved either by attempting to establish an emotional defense of convention that may include expedient evocation of fallacy, avoidance of confrontation, trance-like dissociation, or belligerent personal attack.
Posted on: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 15:06:09 +0000
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