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HVP-Valuemetrics and Axiological Psychology are the foremost applications of axiological science born of an empirical validation of Hartman's theory of value (formal axiology) unfolding in the pages of "The New Science of Axiological Psychology"

The "Framework" is Axiologial Science Focusing on Values, Morals, and Thinking about Thinking in the 21st Century

The "Tool" is Dimensional and Categorical HVP-Valuemetrics Promoting Values Appreciation, Values Clarification and Values Measurement for the 21st Century

The Foremost Applications of Axiological Science are Axiological Psychology and HVP-Valuemetrics; Accomplishing a Reconstruction of Psychology Around value science Establishing a New Paradigm for all the Social Sciences

HVP-Valuemetrics is a Demonstration of this New Science, this Science of Values and Morals Called Axiological Science. HVP-Valuemetrics is the Value Profiling Methodology Derived From Hartman's Mathematical Model of Values, Valuations, and Morals Successfully Validated and Interpreted by Dr. Pomeroy. Because We're Talking About Identifying and Measuring Core Values (Values that Come Alive Within Us With Use!) We're Talking About Behavioral Assessment Where the Habitual Evaluative Habit is Our Unit of Analysis Mapped by the Hartmanian Mathematical Model as Systematically Proven in the Pages of "The New Science of Axiological Psychology" (Rodopi Press, 2005).

HVP-Valuemetrics Yields Dimensional Axiotypes and Categorical Phenotypes of Behavior Beyond The Capacity of Traditional or Mainstream Psychometrics.

I, E, S Lenses of the Mind are Dedicated to the Organization of Habitual Evaluative Habits Revealed by Multi-Polar Science Containing a Mathematical Model of Value and Moral Phenomena Validated in the Pages of Dr. Pomeroy's "New Science of Axiological Psychology." Multi-Polar Science is an Integration of Axiological (Value) Science and Historic Natural (Material) Science and Technology.

Just as Phenotypes are Grounded in Deeper Biological Genotypes, Behavioral Phenotypes are Grounded in Deeper Axiotypes Revealed by Axiological Science and Interpreted by Axiological Psychology! This Approach to Behavioral Assessment (HVP-Valuemetrics) is New and Yields Both Dimensional and Categorical Analyses of Behaviors and Personalities Grounded in the Axiological Equivalent of "Genotypes" or Axiotypes and in the Categorical Interpretation of the Axiotypes. This is a Distinction Experts and Many Clinicians in the Field of Behavioral Assessment Will Understand! Suffice it for The General Public to Know that by Profiling One's Habitual-Evaluative-Habit-Patterns, with HVP-Valuemetrics, We May Construct Many and Varied Behavioral Assessments to Meet the Needs of Corporate Human Resource Divisions, Clinical Psychologists, Vocational Counselors, Security Analysts, and so forth.

We Employ the Term Mono-Polar Science to Designate Run-Away Natural Science Without Moral Sciences Checks and Balances. We Employ the Term Multi-Polar Science to Designate Tomorrow's Integrated Natural Science and Moral Science Today! Multi-Polar Science is About a Revolutionary New Behavioral Paradigm for the 21st Century as Presented in the Pages of:

Identifying The Cognitive Lenses of Valuation and Measuring their Relative Sensitivity, Balance, Priorities, and Integration. How We Value Ourselves is Our Most Important Resource and Together With How we Value the World Leads to Varying Degrees of Pro-Self, Pro-Social Behavior as Opposed to Anti-Self, Anti-Social Behavior! Reality Check: We Don't "See" with Our Eyes, We "See" With Cognitive Lenses Dedicated to Value-Vision Which in Turn Inform Beliefs and Thought Styles Driving Emotions and Behavior! Values are the Building Blocks and "Glue" of Thoughts-Styles and Belief-Systems

Social Sciences Will Remain Pre-Scientific, Largely Ideological Disciplines, Until they Acquire Moral Science (Axiological Science) Foundations Made Possible by Recent Developments Summarized in "The New Science of Axiological Psychology."

Know Your IESs (Tomorrow's Moral Education Today) as You Would Your ABCs (Today's Historic 3-R Education) for They Ground Moral Sanity and Moral Insanity Where Moral Insanity (It's a Problem Admitting to Degree in Today's Rapidly Evolving and Changing World!) Morphs into the "Clinical Insanities" Diagnosed and Treated by Psychologists.

By "Insanity" We Mean Behavior that is Significantly More Self-Defeating than Self-Benefiting. Put Another Way, "Insanity" is Reflected in the a Diminishing Ratio of Pro-Self, Pro-Social Behavior to Anti-Self, Anti-Social Behavior. Such Definitions Avoid Problems With the Medical Model of Sickness Care that has Weakened (Along with Run-Away Mono-Polar Science Without Moral Science Checks and Balances) the Moral Fabric of Societies, Civilizations, Institutions and Families for the last hundred years! We Distinguish "Mind Disease" From "Brain Disease" with the Former Requiring a Multi-Polar Science Approach and the Latter Benefiting From Historic Mono-Polar Science.

Our Position Asserts the Best Preventive Psychology and Preventive Medicine Must Involve Transcultural and Religiously-Neutral Moral Education of Youth as Well as Unpacking the Moral Dimensions of Psychology and Medicine to Advance the Virtues of Self-Reliance and Rational Health Choices. This Goal is Within Reach With the Publication of "The New Science of Axiological Psychology" (Purchase / Book) Presenting a Science of Values and Morals and Initial Efforts to Integrate This New Science with Psychology Offering a Revolutionary New Paradigm for All Professions and All Social Sciences in the 21st Century! Be Prepared to Enter a Very Different World.

The HVP is a Values Assessment Methodology (Identifying and Measuring Values that "Come Alive" Within Us (Internalized- With Use) Revealing Three Pathways ( Patterns / Dimensions) of Valuation Known as The I, E, S "Lenses" or "Axes" of Valuation that Morph into I. E, S Rational and / or Irrational Thought Styles Permitting Us to See or Not See, Focus or Not Focus on Self, Personal-Worlds, Work-Worlds, Mysticism & Faith, Good & Evil, and So Forth! HVP-Valuemetrics Reveals Underlying Axiotypes Producing Behavioral Phenotypes Ranging from the Pro-Self, Pro-Social (Nominal Behavior) to the Anti-Self, Anti-Social (Problematical Behavior).

(The Tool-Box of Standard HVP-Valuemetrics is Only the "Tip of the Iceberg" of Axiological Science and Axiological Psychology Fulfilling the Modern Project of Grounding Values and Morals In Science for the First Time in History! This is an Intellectual Revolution Ahead of the Times, and One Advancing a Revolutionary New Paradigm for the Study of Human Nature and the "Social Sciences" in the 21st Century!)

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The Foremost Application of Basic Axiological Science (Value Science), and its Applied Disciplines of Axiological Psychology (Moral and Valuecentric Cognitive Psychology), Religious Axiology, and Industrial/Business Axiology, is The Standard Hartman Value Profile (HVP). HVP-Valuemetrics is Not Psychological Testing, It is Values Testing Having Many and Varied Applications, Including Business and Clinical Applications. The Depth and Range of Applications Derives From the Subject Matter: Value Phenomena at the Core of All That's Human!

We Offer The Pomeroy Interpretation-Validation of The Standard Hartman Value Profile

The Tool-Box (HVP-PIV) Focuses on Self, World, Faith, Mysticism, Moral Reasoning, Values Appreciation, Values Clarification, Values Measurement etc. in The Spirit of Know-Thyself Informing Self-Help Towards Getting the Good Things in Life For Ourselves and Others (Pro-Self, Pro-Social Adaptation and Survival). Standard HVP-Valuemetrics is All About Identifying and Measuring the Strengths and Weaknesses of One's Valuational Styles and Derived Thought Styles in Order to Inform Personal and Work World Efficiencies!

The Applications of Basic Axiological Science, Applied Axiological Psychology (Pomeroy), Industrial Axiology (RSHI Business Consultants), Religious Axiology (Edwards and Mefford), and Future Social and Economic Applications, Hold Much Promise for the 21st Century. (E.g., Humanizing and Improving The Bureaucratic Cultures of Business and Government; Unpacking the Moral Dimensions of Medicine and Psychology, Providing a Scientific Grounding for Future Curriculum Development in the Fields of Ethics and Moral Education, not to Mention the Development of a Science of Axiological Peace Making and Conflict Resolution in Our Shrinking Global Village!)

Broad Applications of of this Sort are Possible Because Root-Values, Core-Values Command all that is Human Including Thought, Emotion, Motivation, Faith, and Behavior in General! We do not Merely Have Values, We are our Values; We are Prisoner's of our Values. Emotion, Passion, and Faith Cannot Exist Without Values!

Any Ability to Reveal and Measure Values Helps us to Know Ourselves, Others, and the Wider World. We Can No Longer Afford to Ignore Values Research, Values Clarification, Values Appreciation, Values Identification and Values Assessments. Our Tragically Flawed Civilizations (Dominated by Run-Away Natural Science and Technology Without Moral Science Checks and Balances, and Civilizations Where Natural Philosophies Such as Alchemy and Astrology Evolved into the Natural Sciences of Chemistry and Astronomy Leaving Ancient Moral Philosophy, Moral Philosophy!), and the Tragically Flawed Profession of Psychology (Where Professor Milton Rokeach Observes How the Concept of Value Remains at once the Most Important, Least Researched and Least Understood Major Concept of the Profession).The Intellectual Revolution of the New Science of Axiological Psychology Offers a Remedy in the Form of the Dramatic Paradigm Shift From Historic Uni-Polar Science to Multi-Polar Science for the 21st Century. This is Accomplished through the Development of an Empirical Science of Values and Morals Recorded in the Pages of Pomeroy'y book Entitled:

Entering This Very Different World Requires a Basic Appreciation of the Role of Values in Our Lives and the Understanding of Intrinsic (I), Extrinsic (E) and Systemic (S) Value Patterns Giving Rise to Intrinsic (I), Extrinsic (E) and Systemic (S) Thought Styles Driving Emotions, Motivations, and General Behavior (Identified and Measures by Axiological Science and Interpreted With Axiological Science and Psychology).

"Upstream" I, E, and S Lenses, Axes, Dimensions of Valuation Generate "Downstream" Thought Styles Leading to Belief Systems Giving Rise to All That is Human. This is the Essence of Tomorrow's Psychology Today, the Essence of Tomorrow's Social Science Today as Discussed on This Web Site!

Intrinsic (I), Extrinsic (E), and Systemic (S) Lenses of Valuation Permitting Us to "See" Clearly, "See" Poorly, "See" Not at All...The Self, the World, the Capacity to Experience Mysticism in All its Forms, and Our Capacity to Discriminate Between Good and Evil. The Development of These Lenses Around These Capacities is a Naturalistic Defense (Firewall) Against Mental Illness (Problems in Living Characterized by Anti-Self + Anti-Social Behavior as Distinguished from Pro-Self + Pro-Social Behavior!)

The HVP is a POWER TOOL Focusing on and Measuring the Underlying Dimensions of Self, World, Faith, Transcendental Values, Mysticism, Spirituality, Faith, and Moral-Reasoning, Given by the permutations and combinations of Intrinsic (I), Extrinsic (E), and Systemic (S) Dimensions of Valuation radiating through all cognitive structures including beliefs, attitudes, and thoughts. and Thought as Revealed by Hartman's Mathematical Model of Habitual Evaluative Behavior Subsequently Validated by Pomeroy's Empirical Tests and Measures Summarized in the pages of "The New Science of Axiological Psychology." From these Core Dimensions of Valuation (Value-Vision) Emerge all that makes us human.

These Three "Lenses" of the Mind (Intrinsic (I), Extrinsic (E), and Systemic (S) ) Give Rise to Attitudes, Beliefs, Thought Styles, Emotions, Motivations, and so forth. For Better or Worse We Are all "Prisoners" of I,E,S Structures and Dynamisms.

Learning Our IESs With Our ABCs is The "Signature" of Tomorrow's Moral Education Today

CORE, COGNITIVE LENSES DEDICATED TO VALUATION AND GIVING RISE TO THOUGHT STYLES IN TURN GIVING RISE TO EMOTIONS AND BEHAVIOR!

This is the "Cognitive Cascade" Identified by the Ellis-Epictetus Synthesis (Axiom) of Clinically Relevant Cognitive Science and Psychology

What is HVP-Valuemetrics? It is a "Family" of HVP Power Tools for Values Appreciation, Values Clarification, and Values Measurement Derived From Hartman's Mathematical Model of Values, Valuations, and Morals Empirically Validated by Pomeroy. There are Two Classes of HVP-Valuemetrics as Follows:

Employs the Standard HVP (Links 1 & 2) and a Parallel Form of the Standard HVP Known as the Research Version of the HVP (Links 3 & 4).

Derivative Valuemetrics is Based on Scoring and Interpretation of the Standard HVP. Derivative Testing is Dedicated to Special Needs as Found in Corporate and Business Consulting Where Clinical Issues are Not The Focus of Testing: e.g., Vocational Strengths and Weaknesses, Leadership Potential, and Behavioral Categories Identified by Human Resources as Important to Personnel Actions and Other Missions of Corporate and Government Cultures. Because HVP-Valuemetrics Looks at Values and Valuations Made "Alive" Within us With Use (Internalized), It Has Varied Applications. This is so Because Values Drive-and-or-Modulate Behavior Making a Wide Range of Normative and Clinical Applications Possible.

Demo-Scoring of the HVP-PIV is a First-Generation Application of Valuemetrics Employing the Standard HVP Supported by Pomeroy's Validation Studies. The Demo-Interpretation Provided Here Falls in the Range of Personality-Ability Testing. Other Applications Include Vocational, Clinical, Corporate, Security, Aptitude, Intelligence Testing, Etc. This Range of Application Results from the Nature and Role of Values in Mediating Behavior. Scoring Protocols and Interpretive Expertise are Required For Each Application. In Addition to the Standard HVP the Mathematics of This Test Permits the Easy Construction of Parallel Forms Such as the Research Version, and Second-Generation Derivatives Dedicated to Special Applications. Only the Standard HVP is Systematically Validated by Pomeroy as Summarized in "The New Science of Axiological Psychology." Parallel Forms (First Generation Valuemetrics) and Derivatives (Second Generation Valuemetrics) Must be Additionally and Independently Validated by End Users.

Diverse First-Generation Valuemetrics (Standard and Research Forms) Applications are Possible Because Hartman's Mathematical Model Facilitates the Construction of Parallel Forms. Anyone Who Can Score and Interpret the Standard HVP can Construct a Derivative Based on HVP Results, But the Derivative Must Undergo Additional Validation Studies Just as Parallel Forms of the Standard HVP Must be Subjected to Empirical Validation.

The Organization of One's Personal Values Around Sensitivity, Balance, and Order (SBO), Discussed Elsewhere, Permits a Sweeping, Broad and Deep Applications of Hartman's Root Methodology of Values Profiling Ranging From The More Normative Concerns of Business Cultures to More Clinical Concerns of Mental Health and Clinical Cultures. Any Power Tool Measuring Values Enjoys Great Relevance and Wide Applications in the Human Affairs Ranging From Vocational and Aptitude Testing to Personality and Clinical Testing. This Root Methodology is All About Identifying and Measuring the SBO of Deeply and Personally Held Values That Come Alive With Use, and Valuemetrics Should Not be Labeled as Being the Province of Any One Testing Modality. The Business of SBO Values Assessment is Belongs to Generic Axiology Capable of Many Applications to Meet the Demands of Practical Applictions Ranging From Normative Corporate Consulting or the Clinical Consulting and Practices of Mental Health Professionals the World Over!

The Robust and Rich Content Generated by HVP-Valuemetrics (Generic Testing) Also Permits the Construction of Second-Generation Valuemetrics Called Derivatives Dedicated to Market Driven, Business-World Applications. Consultants in Good Standing With the Robert S. Hartman Institute May Typically Employ First and Second-Generation HVP-Valuemetrics to Meet the Needs of Their Clients and Customers!

The Powerful and Diverse Implications and Applications of Valuemetrics (Grounded in Hartman's Mathematical Model of Value Phenomena) are Possible Because Human Behavior Originates in an "Alphabet" of Three, Interacting Value Dynamisms or Dimensions Designated as the Intrinsic (I), Extrinsic (E) and Systemic (S) Dimensions of Valuation. This Alphabet of Three Causal Dynamisms (Three I, E, S "Letters"), Modulated by Brain or Biological Influences, Writes the "Language" of Beliefs, Behavior, Emotions and Motivations! This Causal Connection Between Values and Behavior is Explained and Supported by the Historic Ellis-Epictetus Synthesis in Cognitive Psychology.

Human Behavior is Grounded in Values and HVP-Valuemetrics Identifies and Measures the Primary I, E, and S Dimensions of Valuation A Knowledge of These Dimensions of Valuation Makes a Broad and Sweeping Range of Applications Possible! Made Possible Because Personality and Behavior Originate in Value Structures Mapped by HVP-Valuemetrics! All That Defines the Human Condition Ultimately Derives From and Originates in Our Habitual Evaluative Habits. The Capacity to Map Value-Phenomena is the Power Tool of Axiological Psychology and its Applications as Validated by the Hartman-Pomeroy Synthesis in the Field of Cognitive Science and Psychology Standing on The Foundation of Empirical Tests and Measures Summarized in Pomeroy's Recent Publication.

What Psychology, Psychometrics, and The Entire Field of Social Sciences, Have Neglected to Sufficiently Study are The Axiological Roots (i.e., Value-Centric/Moral-Centric Foundations) of Human Behavior. The New Science of Axiological Psychology Corrects This Flawed History While Raising Important Questions Concerning Testing in General (Personality, Clinical, Aptitude, Vocational, Security, Corporate. Etc.).

Thank You for Your Interest in "Axiological Testing" With its Focus on How We Value Ourselves and the World Around Us and Where The Only Reality We Can Ever Know is the One We Construct in Our Heads Based on the Axiological Mapping of Sensory Information; A Mapping of the "Territories" of Self and World; Where Sanity (Pro-Self, Pro-Social Behavior) Demands Rational and Logical (With a Minimum of Psycho-Logical Distortions) Map-to-Map Relations in Our Heads, and Valid Map-to-Fact Relations With Self and World.

General Information is Available in This Web Section and Elsewhere at This Web Site For Those Seeking More Background. Further Information is Available in Dr. Pomeroy's Recently Published Book "The New Science of Axiological Psychology" (Rodopi Press, Amsterdam, 2005) Announced on the Home Page.

This Information is Not Required for Demo-Testing; Nor is it For Everyone. You May Experience Axiological Testing Without it by Clicking on the HVP-1-Link, and the HVP-2-Link and Completing These Rank Ordering Exercises Involving Two Lists of Eighteen Items Each. From Ranking Decisions is Derived Personal Value Choices, Sensitivities, Balance, and Order-of-Influence. This Information Drives Test Results

Valuemetrics is a Value Profiling Methodology Capable of Detecting The Sensitivity (S), Balance (B), and Order-of-Influence (O) of Personally Held Values Organized by Nature or God Around Three Axes or Dimensions of Valuation Identified Below. The Power of These Dimensions is Seeded by Nature, Evolution or God and Because They "Come Alive" Within Us With Use (They are Highly Internalized Core, Value-Structures and Value-Dynamisms). They Shape Our Value-Vision of Self and World!

Our Value Profiling Methodology (HVP-PIV) Identifies These Structures Providing Values Clarification, Values Appreciation, and Values Measurement. This Methodology is Successfully Employed by Business Consultants Over the Years and a "Cottage Industry" Employing Valuemetrics Continues to Grow With Great Success. Many of These Practitioners of HVP-Valuemetrics are Members of the Robert S. Hartman Institute, A Professional Society of Basic and Applied Axiologists. The Work of Axiological Consultants Amounts to An Informal Validation of HVP-Valuemetrics. The Publication of Dr. Pomeroy's Book Provides a Formal Validation of HVP-Valuemetrics and of The Mathematical Model From Which This Methodology is Derived.

Discovering the Intrinsic (I), Extrinsic (E), and Systemic (S) Lenses, Dimensions, or Axes of Mind With Hartman's Mathematical Model of Value and Moral Phenomena, and its Derivative Power Tool of HVP-Valuemetrics; A Value Profiling Methodology.

Measuring SBO Profiles of Deeply Held, Coherent Condensations (Clusters) of Values Forming Three "Lenses," (First, Second and Third Things of Axiological Science and Psychology) of Valuation Known as The I = Intrinsic; E = Extrinsic, and S = Systemic Lenses of Valuation (Hartman, Robert S., "Structure of Value," University of Illinois Press, Carbondale, 1973) Functioning as Three "Letters" of a "Three-Lettered Alphabet" Writing Emotions, Motivations, Personality Organization and Defenses, Identity, Self-Esteem, Thought, and so forth.

The Co-Play and Counter-Play of These Axiological Lenses (First, Second and Third Things of Axiological Science and Psychology) Determines The Fate of Individuals, Societies and Nations. The Axiology of Mind is Our Story Belonging to the New Science of Value (Pomeroy, Leon, "The New Science of Axiological Psychology;" Rodopi Press, Amsterdam, August, 2005).

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