Conservativism: A Cultural-Psychological Exploration

Enno Freiherr von Fircks is a German psychologist with keen interest in cultural psychology and history of psychology He is currently affiliated with the Sigmund-Freud-University in Vienna, Austria, as well as the IBEF Framework of Shanghai and Salerno. He also works as a Gestalt practitioner in his hometown Siegen (Germany) around the topics of depression, burnout and obesity. His research interests are manifold and incorporate the psychology of leadership, the psychology of conservativism, history of psychology, phenomenology, existentialism and the science of science. His mission in academia can be described with the imperative of uniting psychological theory with the needs and goals of various individuals and groups in society. He has worked for the state of Luxembourg as well as for several banks in his hometown.

• Chapter 1: ​Introduction.- Chapter 2: Follow-up Study and Its Reasons: Shifting the Focus more to the Ecological Assessment of the Conservative Phenomenon.- Chapter 3: Results: Assessing the Preservation of Meaningful Activity at the Tennis Court.- Chapter 4: Results: Assessing the Meaningful Preservation of Academic Work.- Chapter 5: Discussion: Between Strengths and Weaknesses of Assessing Conservativism within our Action-Theoretical Scheme.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.