Nazi personality typing defined perceiving clearly and persisting firmly as hereditary Germanic virtues

Evidence

The contrasting personality, an ideal for Jaensch, was the J-Type. J made definite, unambiguous perceptual judgments and persisted in them. He would recognize that human behavior is fixed by blood, soil, and national tradition. He would be tough, masculine, firm; a man you could rely on. His ancestors would have lived from time immemorial in the North German space and within the North German population; it would be these ancestors who had bequeathed him his admirable qualities. J made a good Nazi Party member. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 428

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how ‘cognitive style’ (ambiguity tolerance vs. rigidity) was racialized — the prehistory of modern implicit-bias and cognitive-style research runs through this Nazi typology.
• DEFINE: The J-Type is the concrete exemplar of what the Nazi typology valorized — needed to contrast against the S-Type’s degeneracy.