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 yobaba rated 4 months ago - A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity".
As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report's four author...
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- sayit rated 4 months ago
- read it...
'In 2003 Jost et al. published an extensive meta-analytical review of the literature pertaining to political ideology and personality. In their analysis they discovered nine psychological characteristics that have been correlated to political conservatism: fear of death, system instability, dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity, openness to experience, tolerance of uncertainty, personal needs to achieve order, structure and closure, integrative complexity, fear of threat and loss, and self-esteem.
Although many conservatives, both academics and laypersons, have found these results unsettling and have criticized the groups findings, few have expressed methodological concerns (Greenberg Jonas, 2003; Lindgren, 2003). Many critics have oversimplified the study to make it easier to attack (Rawls, 2003), but these attacks have not taken anything away from one of the original tenets of the project, that it is a legitimate empirical issue as to whether there are demonstrable links between a clearly defined set of psychological needs, motives, and properties and the adoption of politically conservative attitudes. (Jost et al., 2003, pg. 1, emphasis in original).'
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- snarfeh rated 4 months ago
- Fits most of the Repuglicans I know to a T.
- ketogah rated 4 months ago
- I think there needs to be a distinction between us regular mad folks and the madness of King George. I think his is rooted in greed. I don't think greed is exactly madness tho.
- roslyn217 rated 4 months ago
- DUH!
From The Page:
Study of Bush's psyche touches a nerve
* Julian Borger in Washington
* The Guardian
A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity".
As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction.
All of them "preached a return to an idealised past and condoned inequality".
Republicans are demanding to know why the psychologists behind the report, Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition, received $1.2m in public funds for their research from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
The authors also peer into the psyche of President George Bush, who turns out to be a textbook case. The telltale signs are his preference for moral certainty and frequently expressed dislike of nuance.
Article continues at the link
- und1sk0 rated 4 months ago
- Republicans are jerk, film at 11.
 galloog1 rated 4 months ago- You could use the same idea to argue that liberals turn to government out of fear of letting others take responsibility for themselves.
- jaundisElf rated 4 months ago
- An article discussing a report that classified "conservatism" as a mental disorder.Perhaps I'm foolish to hope for better, but the levels of irony shown by the people who thumb down the article are hilarious and scary in equal doses.These conservative down thumbers with loud voices and a: "set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity"" are discounting scientific works on personal rather than intellectual basises simply because they don't like the logical conclusions of the research. This has already lead to massive environmental damage and the rise of religious teaching in once secular schools all over the world.This scientific report might be biased, but calling it "BS" isn't a compelling enough argument. At least not to me
- Primie rated 4 months ago
- What a crock of shit.
Terrible journalism, terrible 'research'.
- Benjmn rated 4 months ago
- Yeah, and I saw an article a few months back saying American liberalism was a mental disorder. I call BS on both.
- terrie212 rated 4 months ago
- "This intolerance of ambiguity can lead people to cling to the familiar, to arrive at premature conclusions, and to impose simplistic cliches and stereotypes," the authors argue in the Psychological Bulletin."
"Ambiguous"
Nicoleta Bida Surubaru
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