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.
"Psychology Today" is to psychology as "Popular Science" is to science. (But you knew that.)
This whole survey is idiotic. I am an archaeologist and a Conservative. My colleagues have books relating to their field of study and little else. On my wall there are books concerning topics from animal husbandry to zeppelin construction. I'm the most Conservative of my peer group and the most roundly read of the group.
Read this:
http://www.ironshrink.com/articles/070116_political_conservatism_study_methodology.php
No, seriously, go read it right now!
What a crock! Liberals of all stripes watch more TV because all the shows cater to them. And look how the liberals are blowing a gasket about the one show, "24", conservatives probably watch more than them.
It doesn't spew the usual liberal nonsense like every other show.
They put that in to demonstrate how bad Conservatives are.
What the heck is erotic logic?
So why are they always handwringing and skeered of the world and "demanding" a safe place?
I guess coloring books counted in the survey...
Multiple studies find that liberals are more optimistic.
I guess they never heard of DU...
Conservatives are more likely to be religious.
Conservatives tend to believe there is something greater than themselves in the universe...
Liberals are more likely to like classical music and jazz, conservatives, country music.
I like classical, jazz, blues, country, classic rock, anything but (c)rap, hip hop, and todays top 40...
Liberals are more likely to enjoy abstract art.
Liberals tend to understand abstract art, since it takes no brains whatsoever to "enjoy" it...
Conservative men are more likely than liberal men to prefer conventional forms of entertainment like TV and talk radio.
Conventional=NORMAL!!!
Liberal men like romantic comedies more than conservative men.
Only because "romantic comedies" today contain at least 1 gay...
Liberal women are more likely than conservative women to enjoy books, poetry, writing in a diary, acting, and playing musical instruments.
The only "instrument" a liberal girlfriend I once dated prefered was "herself"...
Don't waste your time, you're talking to the little brain....
Ditto here. I have degrees in the social sciences and biology and have practiced for over 21 years. I have read more than any Dem I have ever known. In fact most of the Dems I know sit around the house, watch soaps and Dr Phil and think they would qualify to diagnose people.
I call it a Soap Opera Psychology, which is about all this mag is worthy of.
Yeah, in other words, once they start working and have to pay for all the liberal "ideas", they smarten up and become conservative.
If the Conservatives of the world went on strike, what would happen?
Nuff said.
"What the heck is erotic logic?"
Something my wife just can't understand.
And just WHAT is WRONG with that?
(OK, I admit, I don't have a gun rack in the rear window...)
My walls are lined with books and very few could be categorized as "popular fiction" or "coffee table books." I listen to Jazz and classical guitar. One daughter sings and another plays piano and clarinet. We are all quite conservative and my friends and acquaintances tend to be similar in their tastes and talents with, yes, more country music and little or no rap-hip hop etc, but this is, after all, the south.
I asked my husband and he said he didn't know, but it made him horney.
(Men have two basic needs. Sex and food. If he can't get "it" to work, make him a sandwich. He'll be just fine.)
Psychology has, for a long time, perhaps always, been a fraud with whole departments in universities devoted to teaching the art of fraud. But what the heck, it's not worse than "Women's Studies" or Queer Theory."
Liberals have more books, and their books cover a greater variety of topics.
-Bull.
Multiple studies find that liberals are more optimistic.
-Double Bull.
Conservatives are more likely to be religious.
-Liberals are just as religious. Their religion is Socialism.
Liberals are more likely to like classical music and jazz, conservatives, country music.
-So, liberals are stuffy and stoic and conservatives are more fun and laid back? OK.
Liberals are more likely to enjoy abstract art.
-Abstract art. Art that looks like a bunch of randomness and has no real meaning or purpose. Kinda like their politics.
Conservative men are more likely than liberal men to prefer conventional forms of entertainment like TV and talk radio.
-And they're also more likely to sexually prefer women.
Liberal men like romantic comedies more than conservative men.
-Because they're gay.
Liberal women are more likely than conservative women to enjoy books, poetry, writing in a diary, acting, and playing musical instruments.
-So?
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.
-Bunch of (false) psychobabble bullsh*t.
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.
-No liberal crap would be complete without a cheap shot at wealthy people.
Here's more info on previous work by the authors of the referenced work.
"Berkeley study links Reagan, Hitler Psychological research on conservatives finds them 'less complex'"
Check here: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33714
Two words - causative or indicative
What this hit piece does is take a bunch of indicative data points and attempts to represent them as causative. You would think that some where along the way, this author would have learned the difference.
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