2013 Nov 19 psychologists talk about conservatives being more effective and liberals less effective in politics. This relates to the widespread attitude of resisting change when an idea is "not invented here." (My idea is better than your idea because I invented my idea.)
https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2013/november/liberal-uniqueness-conservative-consensus-are-both-ideological-illusions-psychology-researchers-find-.html
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by Stern, West, Schmitt Psychological Science Sage Publications
"The motivation to feel unique" is something that differs between conservatives and liberals. A person who needs to be unique tends to endorse minority positions and resists conforming to peer judgments (Duval 1976) even when the peers are other liberals. Liberals go for unique creations in art and dislike conforming to others' values, Arndt, Greenberg, Solomon, Pyszczynski, and Schimel 1999, Dollinger 2007. Liberals underestimate the prevalence of their beliefs.
“The Tea Party movement developed a succinct set of goals in its incipient stages and effectively mobilized its members toward large-scale social change quite quickly,” says Chadly Stern, a doctoral student in NYU’s Department of Psychology and the study’s lead author. “In contrast, despite its popularity, the liberal Occupy Wall Street movement struggled to reach agreement on their collective mission and ultimately failed to enact large-scale social change.”
Liberals reported a stronger desire for uniqueness than did moderates or conservatives. These trends even emerged about nonpolitical ideas. The findings may help to explain why liberal and conservative movements develop different political trajectories.
“Liberal social movements might struggle to develop solidarity and formulate shared goals within their ranks, both because liberals want to maintain unique beliefs and because they underestimate the amount of agreement among their members.”
A blogger wrote, "The Occupy movement is as good as dead. It will have achieved nothing legislatively, it will have elected no one, and, in the end, it has no material impact." In contrast, the Tea Party has had significant, long-term influence.
"America has seen the demise of...liberal commentators and listeners...(Air America, 2004 to 2009) whereas their conservative counterparts (Rush Limbaugh Show, O'Reilly Factor) ...create influential discourse."
John Engelbrecht comments--
How much is feeling unique related to being egoistic?
Does conservatism go along with Christian orthodoxy, where orthodoxy means holding to the fundamentals of the Christian faith as guided by the Bible? The research cited above would seem to go along with that statement, seeing as how a need to feel unique is the opposite of the need to believe what other orthodox people believe. Or you can say orthodox people feel a need to obey what God says through the Bible and the Spirit.
The experience of Abraham in the book of Genesis might be seen to be an exception, in the Jewish world. Abraham was bold, and he did a unique thing. However, Abraham was a man of faith, not a wild revolutionary. Abraham obeyed God.
Christian or Jewish orthodoxy goes along with obedience, a central theme of the Old Testament. Moses (Jewish) was the humblest person on earth, Numbers ch. 12 verse 3. Humility has a lot to offer. Born-again Christians have thought about their personal disobedience to God and decided that obedience is better, Romans 5:19 and Matthew 7:21. And Jesus' forgiveness is the first thing to receive. Christians have a sense of a brotherhood/sisterhood where being a community is important. Individual interests and strengths are valued, though. Attention is given to being part of a church team. Esteeming others is important. Deacons serve the needs of the congregation and promote unity. Most of this downplays uniqueness.
Christian congregations that vote to make church decisions work best when the losers still value how the vote went. Missionary Baptist congregations cooperate to send out missionaries, and they trust missionaries to propagate orthodoxy. However, the modern missionary movement starting with William Carey in 1792 might be called a spark of uniqueness, in that Carey forged a new pursuit. He paid attention to Captain James Cooks' discoveries of exotic lands, the Evangelical Awakening, and the extermination of the French Catholic Church in the French Revolution, and also problems that Roman Catholics had in Italy.
https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/winning-the-world-carey-and-modern-missions/
Christians, at least evangelicals and fundamentalists as opposed to the mainline Protestants who highlight social justice (Wikipedia Mainline Protestants), agree that God wins in the end. Conservative Christians like to be part of a winning team and recognize that patience is needed. They like being part of a plan, conforming to a plan. Christians pray, but not that their individual achievements will be exalted.
Christians value Bible texts that most conform to the original text, or the original meaning, considering that various languages sometimes make understanding a challenge.
In summary, orthodox Christians are by and large conservative people who have a low need to feel unique.