Feb 27th, 2007
Researchers help define what makes a political conservative
Politics is a fascinating area for me - massive PR campaigns designed to sway millions of people to a certain ideological viewpoint. A viewpoint that those who are doing the persuading may or may not actually hold, but which they espouse because that’s what the people they’re trying to influence want their leaders to espouse. Here is a meta-study that attempts to tease out what political conservativism is all about, at its core.
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.
Read: Researchers help define what makes a political conservative
Wank you very much!
* Fear and aggression
* Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity
* Uncertainty avoidance
* Need for cognitive closure
* Terror management
Do you not suppose that the exact same factors reversed to their extremes wouldn’t typify liberal America.
* complacency in ambiguity
* alignment under all things ‘anti’ regardless of their intellectual merit
* less problem solving and more academic talk of problem solving
Start looking for less loaded studies maybe.
“Do you not suppose that the exact same factors reversed to their extremes wouldn’t typify liberal America.”
Yes, I do think that.
Anyway, chill man, I’m not “looking” for anything, just reporting on what I find.
I guess that list can include:
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