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"Deuteros" |
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02 Mar 2007 08:41:04 PM |
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Fear brings people closer to conservatism |
I recently read an interesting article in the February 2007 issue of
Psychology Today. It was about political stances, and how most people's
politics have little to do with reason and more to do with personality
traits and education level, among other things. According to the article,
psychologists have discovered some interesting underlying personality
differences between liberals and conservatives. A few I found to be
somewhat surprising:
"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."
"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."
Getting to the main point of the article, it seems that those who have the
greatest fear of death, a need for an authority figure, and who have a
one-dimensional view of the world are more likely to be conservative. On a
side note, this would help explain why the vast majority of those in the
military tend to vote Republican.
http://fraudwasteabuse.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/fear-brings-people-closer-to-conservatism/
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03 Mar 2007 01:00:11 PM |
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On Mar 2, 6:41 pm, Deuteros <deute...@xrs.net> wrote:
I recently read an interesting article in the February 2007 issue of
Psychology Today. It was about political stances, and how most people's
politics have little to do with reason and more to do with personality
traits and education level, among other things. According to the article,
psychologists have discovered some interesting underlying personality
differences between liberals and conservatives. A few I found to be
somewhat surprising:
"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."
"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."
Getting to the main point of the article, it seems that those who have the
greatest fear of death, a need for an authority figure, and who have a
one-dimensional view of the world are more likely to be conservative. On a
side note, this would help explain why the vast majority of those in the
military tend to vote Republican.
http://fraudwasteabuse.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/fear-brings-people-cl...
Know the study well. This is what they did - a bunch of leftie
professors with an ax to grind studied children in Berkley, CA, the
most liberal section of the country. What they found out is that
conservative children who are raised in an area where their beliefs
are ridiculed tend to be insecure. I suppose the same could be said
for the one black kid who is raised in a neighborhood of bigots. What
do we find out when we study liberal children who are raised in
conservative towns? Don't know - the truth seeking professors didn't
bother with that study.
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| User: "jem" |
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| Title: Re: Fear brings people closer to conservatism |
03 Mar 2007 02:24:51 PM |
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On 3 Mar 2007 11:00:11 -0800, "bvallely@aol.com" <bvallely@aol.com>
wrote:
On Mar 2, 6:41 pm, Deuteros <deute...@xrs.net> wrote:
I recently read an interesting article in the February 2007 issue of
Psychology Today. It was about political stances, and how most people's
politics have little to do with reason and more to do with personality
traits and education level, among other things. According to the article,
psychologists have discovered some interesting underlying personality
differences between liberals and conservatives. A few I found to be
somewhat surprising:
"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."
"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."
Getting to the main point of the article, it seems that those who have the
greatest fear of death, a need for an authority figure, and who have a
one-dimensional view of the world are more likely to be conservative. On a
side note, this would help explain why the vast majority of those in the
military tend to vote Republican.
http://fraudwasteabuse.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/fear-brings-people-cl...
Know the study well. This is what they did - a bunch of leftie
professors with an ax to grind studied children in Berkley, CA, the
most liberal section of the country. What they found out is that
conservative children who are raised in an area where their beliefs
are ridiculed tend to be insecure. I suppose the same could be said
for the one black kid who is raised in a neighborhood of bigots. What
do we find out when we study liberal children who are raised in
conservative towns? Don't know - the truth seeking professors didn't
bother with that study.
Please tell me what the professors' agenda, or axe to grind was all
about? I am wondering what difference it makes if an area is more
liberal or conservative when it comes to little children. I don't
remember schoolyards with little kids that had a clue what a liberal
or conservative is, and nobody gave a damn what the parents politics
were. "Lefty" would more likely be used if a kid had a broken right
arm or something like that, but politics? No. This is from nursery
school, not college.
Do conservatives teach their little kids to ridicule "lefty" kids? How
do they identify them? Might the lunchbox be too gay?
Did the implications of the study offend you?
Are all professors "lefty" in your mind? Maybe not the bible colleges
eh?
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13 Mar 2007 10:47:03 AM |
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On Mar 3, 1:24 pm, jem <A0054...@airmail.net> wrote:
On 3 Mar 2007 11:00:11 -0800, "bvall...@aol.com" <bvall...@aol.com>
wrote:
On Mar 2, 6:41 pm, Deuteros <deute...@xrs.net> wrote:
I recently read an interesting article in the February 2007 issue of
Psychology Today. It was about political stances, and how most people's
politics have little to do with reason and more to do with personality
traits and education level, among other things. According to the article,
psychologists have discovered some interesting underlying personality
differences between liberals and conservatives. A few I found to be
somewhat surprising:
"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."
"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."
Getting to the main point of the article, it seems that those who have the
greatest fear of death, a need for an authority figure, and who have a
one-dimensional view of the world are more likely to be conservative. On a
side note, this would help explain why the vast majority of those in the
military tend to vote Republican.
http://fraudwasteabuse.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/fear-brings-people-cl...
Know the study well. This is what they did - a bunch of leftie
professors with an ax to grind studied children in Berkley, CA, the
most liberal section of the country. What they found out is that
conservative children who are raised in an area where their beliefs
are ridiculed tend to be insecure. I suppose the same could be said
for the one black kid who is raised in a neighborhood of bigots. What
do we find out when we study liberal children who are raised in
conservative towns? Don't know - the truth seeking professors didn't
bother with that study.
Please tell me what the professors' agenda, or axe to grind was all
about?>>>
They were liberals, and they were interested in smearing
conservatives.
I am wondering what difference it makes if an area is more
liberal or conservative when it comes to little children.>>>
If a child goes to school, and listens to the values he learns at home
ridiculed, that child will be insecure.
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| User: "Server 13" |
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13 Mar 2007 10:53:23 AM |
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<bvallely@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1173800822.966839.296880@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com...
On Mar 3, 1:24 pm, jem <A0054...@airmail.net> wrote:
On 3 Mar 2007 11:00:11 -0800, "bvall...@aol.com" <bvall...@aol.com>
wrote:
On Mar 2, 6:41 pm, Deuteros <deute...@xrs.net> wrote:
I recently read an interesting article in the February 2007 issue of
Psychology Today. It was about political stances, and how most
people's
politics have little to do with reason and more to do with personality
traits and education level, among other things. According to the
article,
psychologists have discovered some interesting underlying personality
differences between liberals and conservatives. A few I found to be
somewhat surprising:
"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."
"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."
Getting to the main point of the article, it seems that those who have
the
greatest fear of death, a need for an authority figure, and who have a
one-dimensional view of the world are more likely to be conservative.
On a
side note, this would help explain why the vast majority of those in
the
military tend to vote Republican.
http://fraudwasteabuse.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/fear-brings-people-cl...
Know the study well. This is what they did - a bunch of leftie
professors with an ax to grind studied children in Berkley, CA, the
most liberal section of the country. What they found out is that
conservative children who are raised in an area where their beliefs
are ridiculed tend to be insecure. I suppose the same could be said
for the one black kid who is raised in a neighborhood of bigots. What
do we find out when we study liberal children who are raised in
conservative towns? Don't know - the truth seeking professors didn't
bother with that study.
Please tell me what the professors' agenda, or axe to grind was all
about?>>>
They were liberals, and they were interested in smearing
conservatives.
So you have a cite for all this, right, serial liar?
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13 Mar 2007 02:58:15 PM |
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On Mar 13, 8:53=EF=BF=BDam, "Server 13" <i...@casual.com> wrote:
<bvall...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1173800822.966839.296880@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com...
On Mar 3, 1:24 pm, jem <A0054...@airmail.net> wrote:
On 3 Mar 2007 11:00:11 -0800, "bvall...@aol.com" <bvall...@aol.com>
wrote:
On Mar 2, 6:41 pm, Deuteros <deute...@xrs.net> wrote:
I recently read an interesting article in the February 2007 issue of
Psychology Today. It was about political stances, and how most
people's
politics have little to do with reason and more to do with personal=
ity
traits and education level, among other things. According to the
article,
psychologists have discovered some interesting underlying personali=
ty
differences between liberals and conservatives. A few I found to be
somewhat surprising:
=A0 =A0"Multiple studies find that liberals are more optimistic.
Conservatives
=A0 =A0 are more likely to be religious. Liberals are more likely t=
o like
=A0 =A0 classical music and jazz, conservatives, country music. Lib=
erals
are
=A0 =A0 more likely to enjoy abstract art. Conservative men are more
likely
=A0 =A0 than liberal men to prefer conventional forms of entertainm=
ent
like TV
=A0 =A0 and talk radio. Liberal men like romantic comedies more than
=A0 =A0 conservative men. Liberal women are more likely than conser=
vative
=A0 =A0 women to enjoy books, poetry, writing in a diary, acting, a=
nd
playing
=A0 =A0 musical instruments."
=A0 =A0"As kids, liberals had developed close relationships with pe=
ers and
=A0 =A0 were rated by their teachers as self-reliant, energetic,
impulsive,
=A0 =A0 and resilient. People who were conservative at age 23 had b=
een
=A0 =A0 described by their teachers as easily victimized, easily of=
fended,
=A0 =A0 indecisive, fearful, rigid, inhibited, and vulnerable at ag=
e 3.
The
=A0 =A0 reason for the difference, the Blocks hypothesized, was that
insecure
=A0 =A0 kids most needed the reassurance of tradition and authority=
, and
they
=A0 =A0 found it in conservative politics."
Getting to the main point of the article, it seems that those who h=
ave
the
greatest fear of death, a need for an authority figure, and who hav=
e a
one-dimensional view of the world are more likely to be conservativ=
e=2E
On a
side note, this would help explain why the vast majority of those in
the
military tend to vote Republican.
http://fraudwasteabuse.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/fear-brings-people-c=
l=2E..
Know the study well. =A0This is what they did - a bunch of leftie
professors with an ax to grind studied children in Berkley, CA, the
most liberal section of the country. =A0What they found out is that
conservative children who are raised in an area where their beliefs
are ridiculed tend to be insecure. =A0I suppose the same could be said
for the one black kid who is raised in a neighborhood of bigots. =A0W=
hat
do we find out when we study liberal children who are raised in
conservative towns? =A0Don't know - the truth seeking professors didn=
't
bother with that study.
Please tell me what the professors' agenda, or axe to grind was all
about?>>>
They were liberals, and they were interested in smearing
conservatives.
=A0 So you have a cite for all this, right, serial liar?- Hide quoted tex=
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http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah032206.asp
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13 Mar 2007 03:37:41 PM |
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<bvallely@aol.com> wrote in message
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On Mar 13, 8:53?am, "Server 13" <i...@casual.com> wrote:
<bvall...@aol.com> wrote in message
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On Mar 3, 1:24 pm, jem <A0054...@airmail.net> wrote:
On 3 Mar 2007 11:00:11 -0800, "bvall...@aol.com" <bvall...@aol.com>
wrote:
On Mar 2, 6:41 pm, Deuteros <deute...@xrs.net> wrote:
I recently read an interesting article in the February 2007 issue of
Psychology Today. It was about political stances, and how most
people's
politics have little to do with reason and more to do with
personality
traits and education level, among other things. According to the
article,
psychologists have discovered some interesting underlying
personality
differences between liberals and conservatives. A few I found to be
somewhat surprising:
"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."
"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."
Getting to the main point of the article, it seems that those who
have
the
greatest fear of death, a need for an authority figure, and who have
a
one-dimensional view of the world are more likely to be
conservative.
On a
side note, this would help explain why the vast majority of those in
the
military tend to vote Republican.
http://fraudwasteabuse.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/fear-brings-people-cl...
Know the study well. This is what they did - a bunch of leftie
professors with an ax to grind studied children in Berkley, CA, the
most liberal section of the country. What they found out is that
conservative children who are raised in an area where their beliefs
are ridiculed tend to be insecure. I suppose the same could be said
for the one black kid who is raised in a neighborhood of bigots. What
do we find out when we study liberal children who are raised in
conservative towns? Don't know - the truth seeking professors didn't
bother with that study.
Please tell me what the professors' agenda, or axe to grind was all
about?>>>
They were liberals, and they were interested in smearing
conservatives.
So you have a cite for all this, right, serial liar?- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah032206.asp
Complete failure noted. You claimed:
What they found out is that
conservative children who are raised in an area where their beliefs
are ridiculed tend to be insecure. I suppose the same could be said
for the one black kid who is raised in a neighborhood of bigots. What
do we find out when we study liberal children who are raised in
conservative towns? Don't know - the truth seeking professors didn't
bother with that study.
The article says:
"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."
In short, you just tried to lie to us again - as always. roflmao
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14 Mar 2007 01:28:15 AM |
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On Mar 13, 1:37 pm, "Server 13" <i...@casual.com> wrote:
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On Mar 13, 8:53?am, "Server 13" <i...@casual.com> wrote:
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On Mar 3, 1:24 pm, jem <A0054...@airmail.net> wrote:
On 3 Mar 2007 11:00:11 -0800, "bvall...@aol.com" <bvall...@aol.com>
wrote:
On Mar 2, 6:41 pm, Deuteros <deute...@xrs.net> wrote:
I recently read an interesting article in the February 2007 issue of
Psychology Today. It was about political stances, and how most
people's
politics have little to do with reason and more to do with
personality
traits and education level, among other things. According to the
article,
psychologists have discovered some interesting underlying
personality
differences between liberals and conservatives. A few I found to be
somewhat surprising:
"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."
"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."
Getting to the main point of the article, it seems that those who
have
the
greatest fear of death, a need for an authority figure, and who have
a
one-dimensional view of the world are more likely to be
conservative.
On a
side note, this would help explain why the vast majority of those in
the
military tend to vote Republican.
http://fraudwasteabuse.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/fear-brings-people-cl...
Know the study well. This is what they did - a bunch of leftie
professors with an ax to grind studied children in Berkley, CA, the
most liberal section of the country. What they found out is that
conservative children who are raised in an area where their beliefs
are ridiculed tend to be insecure. I suppose the same could be said
for the one black kid who is raised in a neighborhood of bigots. What
do we find out when we study liberal children who are raised in
conservative towns? Don't know - the truth seeking professors didn't
bother with that study.
Please tell me what the professors' agenda, or axe to grind was all
about?>>>
They were liberals, and they were interested in smearing
conservatives.
So you have a cite for all this, right, serial liar?- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah032206.asp
Complete failure noted. You claimed:
What they found out is that
conservative children who are raised in an area where their beliefs
are ridiculed tend to be insecure. I suppose the same could be said
for the one black kid who is raised in a neighborhood of bigots. What
do we find out when we study liberal children who are raised in
conservative towns? Don't know - the truth seeking professors didn't
bother with that study.
The article says:
"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."
In short, you just tried to lie to us again - as always. roflmao>>>>
Here's what I wrote, matched with what you edited out of the article:
"> > >> >conservative children who are raised in an area where their
beliefs
are ridiculed tend to be insecure. I suppose the same could be said
for the one black kid who is raised in a neighborhood of bigots. "
"Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley - of course -
found that of the roughly 100 kids they tracked for 20 years, starting
in nursery school, the whiny kids were more likely to become
conservatives.
UC Berkeley professor Jack Block's theory, according to the Star, is
that insecure kids look for "reassurance provided by tradition and
authority, and find it in conservative politics. The more confident
kids are eager to explore alternatives to the way things are, and find
liberal politics more congenial."
Ah yes, in Berkeley, Calif., nothing is more rebellious to the status
quo than being a liberal. Why, they must be pariahs at the local
organic food co-op. I mean, it's just plain heroic to embrace liberal
politics in a town where residents cast 90 percent of their votes for
John Kerry and only 6.6 percent of their votes for Bush.
But don't nominate these mavericks for a Profiles in Courage award
just yet. If you read down to the 15th paragraph in the story, you'll
discover that there was "a .27 correlation between being self-reliant
in nursery school and being a liberal as an adult." In other words,
self-reliance explains seven percent of the variance between kids who
bravely became liberal and tykes who supinely embraced conservative
politics.
What do we find out when we study liberal children who are raised in
conservative towns? Don't know - the truth seeking professors didn't
bother with that study.
One obvious problem with this sort of analysis is that the single best
predictor of partisan affiliation is the political orientation of your
parents. In Berkeley, the most liberal majority-white city in America,
most kids are going to be liberal because their parents are liberal.
If one or two of the whinier kids turn out to be conservative, it
might have more to do with the fact that their parents are whiny
conservatives. Heck, if I lived in Berkeley, I might be whiny too.
To call these sorts of studies entirely useless is probably unfair. No
doubt Block has more or less accurately charted the path of his
subjects. And even he concedes that the study tells us little about
the rest of the country. But it's also pretty clear that Block wants
to find psychologically satisfying explanations for what makes people
conservatives. It's not hard to imagine that if the whiny, sniveling
brats turned out to be liberals, he would explain this as proof that
liberals are born more emotionally sensitive and with a greater acuity
for spotting injustice.
Perhaps the more revealing psychological insight can be found in the
fact that so many liberals think disagreeing with them is a form of
psychosis
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On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 02:41:04 +0000 (UTC), Deuteros <deuteros@xrs.net>
wrote:
- Refer: <esan80$hhg$1@news.onet.pl>
I recently read an interesting article in the February 2007 issue of
Psychology Today. It was about political stances, and how most people's
politics have little to do with reason and more to do with personality
traits and education level, among other things. According to the article,
psychologists have discovered some interesting underlying personality
differences between liberals and conservatives. A few I found to be
somewhat surprising:
"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."
"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."
Getting to the main point of the article, it seems that those who have the
greatest fear of death, a need for an authority figure, and who have a
one-dimensional view of the world are more likely to be conservative. On a
side note, this would help explain why the vast majority of those in the
military tend to vote Republican.
http://fraudwasteabuse.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/fear-brings-people-closer-to-conservatism/
Orwell knew this only too well.
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