This one is really waaaay too funny, and will definitely require all drinking vessels, flammables, and sharp objects be safely stowed. Posted on 01/19/2007 3:59:07 PM PST by lowbridge
Posted by Noel Sheppard on January 19, 2007 - 10:07.
This one is really waaaay too funny, and will definitely require all drinking vessels, flammables, and sharp objects be safely stowed.
Psychology Today magazine has a long study published in its January/February issue about the differing mindsets and personalities of conservatives and liberals. Who do you think the report praised, and who did it slam? Which ideological group was perceived as smarter, and which was considered more insecure?
If you’re having a hard time answering these questions, read this (emphasis mine throughout). However, please fasten your seatbelts, for you are about to be greatly insulted by one of America's leading psychology periodicals:
Liberals have more books, and their books cover a greater variety of topics. And that's just a start. Multiple studies find that liberals are more optimistic. Conservatives are more likely to be religious. Liberals are more likely to like classical music and jazz, conservatives, country music. Liberals are more likely to enjoy abstract art. Conservative men are more likely than liberal men to prefer conventional forms of entertainment like TV and talk radio. Liberal men like romantic comedies more than conservative men. Liberal women are more likely than conservative women to enjoy books, poetry, writing in a diary, acting, and playing musical instruments.
Pretty funny stuff, right? But it gets better, although you might have to find a more intelligent liberal to explain it to you:
As kids, liberals had developed close relationships with peers and were rated by their teachers as self-reliant, energetic, impulsive, and resilient. People who were conservative at age 23 had been described by their teachers as easily victimized, easily offended, indecisive, fearful, rigid, inhibited, and vulnerable at age 3. The reason for the difference, the Blocks hypothesized, was that insecure kids most needed the reassurance of tradition and authority, and they found it in conservative politics.
I’m not kidding. Check the link, through some water on your face, and come back here because there’s more:
The researchers—John Jost of NYU, Arie Kruglanski of the University of Maryland, and Jack Glaser and Frank Sulloway of Berkeley—found that conservatives have a greater desire to reach a decision quickly and stick to it, and are higher on conscientiousness, which includes neatness, orderliness, duty, and rule-following. Liberals are higher on openness, which includes intellectual curiosity, excitement-seeking, novelty, creativity for its own sake, and a craving for stimulation like travel, color, art, music, and literature.
The study's authors also concluded that conservatives have less tolerance for ambiguity, a trait they say is exemplified when George Bush says things like, "Look, my job isn't to try to nuance. My job is to tell people what I think," and "I'm the decider." Those who think the world is highly dangerous and those with the greatest fear of death are the most likely to be conservative.
Liberals, on the other hand, are "more likely to see gray areas and reconcile seemingly conflicting information," says Jost. As a result, liberals like John Kerry, who see many sides to every issue, are portrayed as flip-floppers. "Whatever the cause, Bush and Kerry exemplify the cognitive styles we see in the research," says Jack Glaser, one of the study's authors, "Bush in appearing more rigid in his thinking and intolerant of uncertainty and ambiguity, and Kerry in appearing more open to ambiguity and to considering alternative positions."
Amazing. But there was more:
That's why the more educated people are, the more liberal they become—but only to a point. Once people begin pursuing certain types of graduate degrees, the curve flattens. Business students, for instance, become more conservative in their views toward minorities. As they become more established, doctors and lawyers tend to protect their economic interests by moving to the right. The findings demonstrate that conservative conversions are fueled not only by fear, but by other factors as well. And if the November election was any indicator, the pendulum that swung so forcefully to the right after 9/11 may be swinging back.
Incredible. Well, that’s all I have to say on this issue, for I have to go protect my economic interests. Have a nice day.
Baloney. I am the most voracious book reader in my family. Always have been. And I come from a family of Democrats. My Democrat brother, most of all, HATES to read books. Doesn't even own a book.
and their books cover a greater variety of topics.
My enormous collection of books cover a great variety of topics. Biographies, auto-biographies, photography, Fiction, sicence fiction, history, music, movies and theater, architecture, computers and software, true crime, parasychology, etc, etc.
Multiple studies find that liberals are more optimistic.
Conservatives are more likely to be religious.
This could be true, but speaking for myself, I am not religious.
Liberals are more likely to like classical music and jazz, conservatives, country music.
I like classical and Jazz. Have no use for country music.
Liberals are more likely to enjoy abstract art.
Probably.
Conservative men are more likely than liberal men to prefer conventional forms of entertainment like TV and talk radio.
This is true of me.
Liberals need more therapy.... just don't make me pay for it!
These hacks who wrote this should be ashamed to show their faces. This could have been written and researched more intelligetly by an 8th grade special ed class.
This sounds more like a horoscope than a scientific study. Psychology has apparently given up the quest to be thought of as a legitimate discipline.
Let's see? Conservative, gun-toting, Catholic, beer-drinker, motorcycle rider. Wondering if I should get married again so I can beat my wife? Nah, I don't like those "wife-beater" T shirts.
Now where would a special ed class get a conservative to study?
LOL, I have never met an optimistic liberal, nor one who's mind is open. Liberals tend to have lousy relationships with their parents and tend to be dependant on institutions more than actually producing something. Liberals tend to be self-centered and very stingy when it comes to giving their money.
Conservatives actually read their books.
Multiple studies find that liberals are more optimistic.
Ehhh No.
Conservatives are more likely to be religious.
Likely
Liberals are more likely to like classical music and jazz, conservatives, country music.
Liberals like whiny protest songs from the sixties. I don't think that qualifies as classical.
Liberals are more likely to enjoy abstract art.
Like "Lights turning on and off in an empty room" and Butt Painting.
Conservative men are more likely than liberal men to prefer conventional forms of entertainment like TV and talk radio.
Liberal men like Butt Painting.
Liberal men like romantic comedies more than conservative men.
That is because they lust after the leading man.
Liberal women are more likely than conservative women to enjoy books, poetry, writing in a diary, acting, and playing musical instruments.
Doubtful.
Is this really a study, or just a regurgitation of popular stereotypes?
Stereotypes have their basis in facts, and make it easier for us to make quick judgements. But, in the end, they are still just broad generalizations.
Liberals are also known stereotypically to be anti-gun (anti-civil rights in my book), yet there are several threads over at DU where gun-lovers go on about their hardware and their rights just like they do here.
Hannity read this on the radio yesterday. It was hilarious. I couldn't help cracking up again this morning while I was driving to work. :-D
"Conservative men are more likely than liberal men to prefer conventional forms of entertainment"
Liberal men are more likely to get doped up and contract sexually transmitted diseases.
Let's say that it's all true.
Which people, liberal or conservative, have ideas that fit more with the world as it really is? Hint" it ain't the liberals.
Let's say that it's all true.
Which people, liberal or conservative, have ideas that fit more with the world as it really is? Hint" it ain't the liberals.
Psychiatrists...is there anything they don't know?
Ditto for abortions.
No children.
As kids, liberals had developed close relationships with peers and were rated by their teachers as self-reliant, energetic, impulsive, and resilient.
No parents.
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