Defensive Zeal: Compensatory Conviction About Attitudes, Values, Goals, Groups, and Self-Definitions in the Face of Personal Uncertainty

doi:10.4324/9781410606679-4

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Defensive Zeal: Compensatory Conviction About Attitudes, Values, Goals, Groups, and Self-Definitions in the Face of Personal Uncertainty

ABSTRACT

“Man, lacking instinctive determination and having a brain that permits him to think of many directions in which he could go, needs an object of total devotion … to be the focal point of all his strivings … The need for devotion itself is a primary existential need.”