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 knitterr rated 4 months 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...
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- Laurel700 rated 8 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 8 months ago- I expect more from berkeley. This is a load of crap.
- nero44 rated 9 months ago
- Conservatives,Liberals,shouldn't there be a third party called the Common Fuck'in Sense Party.These are two extremes of a spectrum.
- longhornjoe rated 9 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"
- reagan08 rated 9 months ago
- Psychologists at the prestigious UC Berkeley school of psychology aim to identify underlying motivations for stupid beliefs like support for the Vietnam war, Iraq war etc.
- BurnedCorneas rated 9 months ago
- Is this a joke? It has to be a joke. Differing political views are a psychological condition worthy of study now... seriously what the fuck?
- asmodeus54 rated 11 months ago
- Psychological traits of conservatives.
- nihtwael rated 9 months ago
- What a load of drivel. Consider the source.
- ohmforce rated 9 months ago
- From the page: "Conservatives don't feel the need to jump through complex, intellectual hoops in order to understand or justify some of their positions, he said. "They are more comfortable seeing and stating things in black and white in ways that would make liberals squirm," Glaser said."
- figgers3036 rated 9 months ago
- Sorry, I will never trust a study out of Berkeley on conservatism. That would be like asking Stalin about how wonderful capitalism is.
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