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knitterr rated 4 weeks ago- From the News article:" "...The researchers said that conservative ideologies, like virtually all belief systems, develop in part because they satisfy some psychological needs, but that "does not mean that conservatism is pathological or that conservative beliefs are necessarily false, irrational, or unprincipled." " (Some of the comments by Stumblers, eg,"drivel" are fascinating in their rigid,fearful character. Read 'em) Here's the paper itself: www.wam.umd.edu/~hannahk/bulletin.pdf Psychological Bulletin Copyright 2003 by the American Psychological Association, Inc. 2003, Vol. 129, No. 3, 339-375; researchers work at Stanford, Univ. of Maryland at College Park, and two at UC Berkeley and its abstract: "Analyzing political conservatism as motivated social cognition integrates theories of personality (authoritarianism, dogmatism-intolerance of ambiguity), epistemic and existential needs (for closure, regulatory focus, terror management), and ideological rationalization (social dominance, system justification). A meta-analysis (88 samples, 12 countries, 22,818 cases) confirms that several psychological variables predict political conservatism: death anxiety (weighted mean r .50); system instability (.47); dogmatism-intolerance of ambiguity (.34); openness to experience (-.32); uncertainty tolerance (-.27); needs for order, structure, and closure (.26); integrative complexity (-.20); fear of threat and loss (.18); and self-esteem (-.09). The core ideology of conservatism stresses resistance to change and justification of inequality and is motivated by needs that vary situationally and dispositionally to manage uncertainty and threat." AND one rebuttal, from the SAME publication, same issue, easily found by googling: Psychological Bulletin. 2003 May Vol 129(3) 376-382 psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=search.displayRecord&uid=2003-00782-004
- alisdee rated 2 months ago
- "Four researchers who culled through 50 years of research literature about the psychology of conservatism report that at the core of political conservatism is the resistance to change and a tolerance for inequality". I lol'd.
- m3rcury1 rated 3 months ago
- Okay Berkeley.
- commerican rated 3 months ago
- Fits the RWA/SDO models.
- AtlasEndures rated 3 months ago
- shit, I'm no conservative but I have all those psychological traits.
- XgenX rated 5 months ago
- The phsychological cause of conservatism? I like how they casually disregard Reason as a possible cause. "Hitler, Mussolini, and former President Ronald Reagan were individuals, but all were right-wing conservatives." Totally unbiased science. Wasn't Hitler the leader of the National Socialists? Didn't he run a centrally controlled economy where he set the prices of the Volkswagens and what industry should make? That wouldn't get you far in any conservative circles I've seen. Reagan de-regulated. Not quite a Hitler. I prefer Ted Kazinski's psychological analysis of leftists: "Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful."
- Laurel700 rated 5 months ago
- From the page: "Politically conservative agendas may range from supporting the Vietnam War to upholding traditional moral and religious values to opposing welfare. But are there consistent underlying motivations? Four researchers who culled through 50 years of research literature about the psychology of conservatism report that at the core of political conservatism is the resistance to change and a tolerance for inequality, and that some of the common psychological factors linked to political conservatism include: * Fear and aggression * Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity * Uncertainty avoidance * Need for cognitive closure * Terror management "From our perspective, these psychological factors are capable of contributing to the adoption of conservative ideological contents, either independently or in combination," the researchers wrote in an article, "Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition," recently published in the American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin."
- reckoness rated 5 months ago
- I expect more from berkeley. This is a load of crap.
- longhornjoe rated 5 months ago
- From the page: "Four researchers who culled through 50 years of research literature about the psychology of conservatism report that at the core of political conservatism is the resistance to change and a tolerance for inequality, and that some of the common psychological factors linked to political conservatism include: * Fear and aggression * Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity * Uncertainty avoidance * Need for cognitive closure * Terror management"
