Conventional

Trait Profile

Motivation

To follow, be true to convention/tradition

Purpose

Knowledge selection

Conflict

status quo/old ways vs. new ways

Historic antecedent

Jungian Sensing vs. Intuition

Historic example

Robert E. Lee

Film example

Pleasantville

Counter example

Albert Einstein

Characteristicsvalues maintaining over innovating, values the status quo over revolution, finds conformity rewarding, traditional, more simple than complex, more likely to be religious, more obedient than rebellious, more likely to conform to the opinions of those in their trusted community, sticks to the rules, values the rules, plays it safe, would rather be supported than challenged, more likely to worry about what others in their trusted community think of them, judges their own and other people's behaviors according to the norms of their trusted culture, more tangible than conceptual, avoids dangerous situations, not a risk taker, not a big fan of the arts / artistic culture, not interested in abstract or theoretical ideas, prefers the known to the unknown, likes things to stay as they are / resistant to change