...I say, it's a JOKE,son!
Posted on 03/11/2009 11:27:07 AM PDT by John Semmens
In a bid to marginalize criticism of the massive expansion of government emerging from the Obama Administration, professors at Harvard’s “Third Conference on Law and Mind Sciences” presented evidence for what they dubbed “anti-socialist personality disorder.”
In one paper titled “The Palliative Function of Ideology,” Ph.D. candidate Jaime Napier from NYU postulated that the self-reported higher levels of personal happiness of conservatives was, in itself, a sign of serious mental illness. “In a world wallowing in poverty and oppression, angst and neurosis are the healthy responses,” Napier wrote. “Liberals manifest a robust magnitude of both angst and neurotic tendencies in their responses to our surveys of mental attitudes.”
“Conservatives, on the other hand, are deficient in this area,” Napier observed. “Their focus on family, faith, and career is systemically pathological given the over all state of the world. Therapy is indicated.”
The characterization of disagreeable political ideas as a mental illness is reminiscent of the old Soviet Union practice of labeling its dissenters as deranged and incarcerating them in hospitals for treatment.
(Excerpt) Read more at azconservative.org ...
No. Therapy requires supervised incarceration.
...I say, it's a JOKE,son!
FR is group therapy.
Been there. Done that. Still crazy after all these years.
Jaime L. Napier
Email: jnapier@nyu.edu
Office: Meyer 568
Personal Information
Hometown: Niagara Falls, NY
Undergraduate Major: B.S. Computer Science and Mathematics
Undergraduate Institution: University of Texas at Austin, 2000
Research Interests
I am interested in how situational and cognitive factors motivate people to adopt certain ideologies. My research focuses on political conservatism and religious fundamentalism. John Jost and I are currently looking at how individual differences, such as need for cognitive closure, can predict political and religious conservatism as well as explain part of the correlations between the two ideologies. Additionally, I'm interested in how situational factors, such as percieved threat and uncertainty, affect people's religious and political ideologies; how death anxiety (such as death avoidance and fear) relates to ideology; and finally, what are the consequences of certain ideologies for the individual.
Current Projects
The Psychological Basis of Ideology and System Justification
In this project, we look at various individual differences, including need for closure, need for order, openness to experience, death anxiety, and perceptions of a dangerous word, and how they relate to political conservatism. We use structural equation methods to test two competing hypotheses: the Extremity Hypothesis (which posits that uncertainty and threat avoidance would lead people to be ideologically extreme in general) and the Matching Hypothesis (which posits that uncertainty and threat avoidance will lead to political conservatism specifically). In addition, we explore the relationship of political conservatism to “system justifying” ideologies, such as opposition to equality, fair market ideology, economic system justification, and right-wing authoritarianism.
The Relationship Between Religious Fundamentalism and Political Conservatism
This research extends this motivated social cognition model of ideology to religious fundamentalism to provide a psychological explanation for the association between fundamentalism and political conservatism. Using data from the World Values Survey for the United States (N=1,200), we examine how needs for order, structure, and security and fear of threat variables relate to political conservatism and religious fundamentalism in an effort to identify underlying psychological mechanisms that explain why these two ideologies tend to co-occur. We compare American data to data from countries around the globe.
Well OK, but make sure you switch to The Mojito Therapy by 8:00 PM Dago. Because of the high bacterial and mold count in your area, Bacardi 151 and double the normal mint is called for. Do not operate heavy machinery after dark near ACORN HQ for Registering Illegal Aliens. (Unless you feel confident in jumping curbs.)
This (ASPD) is a very dangerous condition, and may take as long as 4 years to run its course
Yeah, I know. I would prefer to watch from a safe vantage point. I hope pre-trib is correct...
” did you know that Reiper is Napier spelled backwards? Giggle... “
You might want to ease off that self medication.
So put the bottle down and go to another room.
“This (ASPD) is a very dangerous condition, and may take as long as 4 years to run its course.”
It is probably an inherited lifelong condition.
My maternal grandfather had it all of his adult life. He lived until he was 79.
His daughter, my Mother, had it from childhood until her passing at age 87.
I have had it since grade school, and at age 70, it shows no sign of going away.
It may be transmitted by other means. My trophy wife hates/dislikes Obama even more than I do. Usually, she is more moderate when it comes to politics.
Yeah some of us called this free and independent thought...
ROFL...
I love the comment that we know have victim status...can we get a stimulus check now?
Oh Dave? Are you telling us how to infect liberal females?
I'd consider taking one or two for team, I guess.
This is meant as total humor but i know there will be one or two to take it wrong.
Where's my money?
That just proves that I am still a little dislexic...Napier = Reipan upside down...
For once, I will not respond to your reply! :)lol
May take longer than that at the rate we are going. :(
GREAT! Now I am certifiable too! LOL
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