[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

PRICELESS!

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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,”

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I'm reminded of a song from 20+ years ago, the refrain had a line something like,

"Up Against The Wall, (Happy Bitter Clinging) Redneck Mothers"


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[Lazamataz]

The Soviet Union already went here.

This makes my tagline even more relevant.

[Danae]

Is there a pill for that?

/sarc

[tubebender]

“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.

In as much as I am the only FReeper suffering this malady I volunteered and started my therapy today by opening a new bottle of Bob's Really Good Red at 5:00PM Dago time...

[Eva]

That's funny, I had to read it twice before I noticed that it was anti-social-IST disorder.

Yes, that's me, too.

[MountainFlower]

I always wondered what was wrong with me and how long they would take to come up with a label. But then, you can't apply the label because then you end up with some other syndrome where you live up to the label. so they give you a label and you have to pretend you don't know the label? it is all rather confusing, but now that it has been clarified I might sleep a little easier knowing I have a label that I am supposed to ignore which labels the tendencies I have had throughout my life, or what they would like to label as tendencies.......

::grin:: Do I talk to much? Does that follow the label? ::Laughing::

[Conspiracy Guy]

I’m checking into the wacky ranch tomorrow.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I guess I should become an angry liberal. I hate straight jackets

[SunkenCiv]

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... 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.

What about hoping that President Bush is assassinated? Is that healthy, Napier, you POS?

[jonascord]

Is a personality disorder good enough to use as an insanity defence in a mass homicide case? I'm pretty sure I can worth up a world record killing spree in Ithaca, NY, or the Chicago City Council...

It is a long drive, tho...

[Grizzled Bear]

Thank God it’s you! For a moment I believed this was real!

I wonder if they will ever categorize “Barking Moonbat Disorder.”

[tet68]

That’s too close for satire, john.

You know that’s what they are planning.

[LayoutGuru2]

Does this mean I can qualify for free meds from the 0bama Health Plan to help with my affliction?

[woollyone]

SDS
socialist derangement syndrome

[lonestar]

FR is group therapy.

[Flying Circus]

This isn't just satire. This Napier character is for real. From: http://www.psych.nyu.edu/jostlab/napier.html

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.

[Doctor Raoul]

Ah, the liberals are returning to their Stalinist roots. They'll label all dissidents as psychiatric cases and have them arrested.

[surfer]

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?

[TexasNative2000]

I'm a victim.

Where's my money?

[Hot Tabasco]

“anti-socialist personality disorder.”

Yo Baby, does that mean I qualify for disability payments?????