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So God Made A Liberal

flounder

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Quote:pathologizing Conservatism


According to Professor Altemeyer, right-wing authoritarians are cognitively rigid, aggressive, and intolerant. They are characterized by steadfast conformity to group norms, submission to higher status individuals, and aggression toward out-groups and unconventional group members…


Meyer-Emerick notes that high RWAs perceive the world as a significantly more dangerous place than those who score low. High RWAs are more submissive to government authority and indifferent to human rights. They also tend to be more hostile and more highly punitive, and more racially and ethnically prejudiced—and religious!—to boot. In the United States, guess what? Republicans cluster at the high end of the RWA Scale…


… In the study, "Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition," the Berkeley researchers found common psychological factors linked to political conservatism include: fear and aggression, dogmatism and intolerance, uncertainty avoidance, need for cognitive closure, and terror management that causes conservatives to shun and even punish outsiders and those who threaten the status of their cherished world views... /snip




http://lunaticoutpost.com/Topic-So-God-Made-a-Conservative





Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition

John T. Jost

Stanford University

Jack Glaser

University of California, Berkeley

Arie W. Kruglanski

University of Maryland at College Park

Frank J. Sulloway

University of California, Berkeley




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.





http://faculty.virginia.edu/haidtlab/jost.glaser.political-conservatism-as-motivated-social-cog.pdf
 

hopalong

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LOL at DR TERRY the high school drop out trying to show any signs of intelligence by cutting and pasteing,,,,shades of oldtimer, :D :D :D
 

okfarmer

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flounder said:
Quote:pathologizing Conservatism


According to Professor Altemeyer, right-wing authoritarians are cognitively rigid, aggressive, and intolerant. They are characterized by steadfast conformity to group norms, submission to higher status individuals, and aggression toward out-groups and unconventional group members…


Meyer-Emerick notes that high RWAs perceive the world as a significantly more dangerous place than those who score low. High RWAs are more submissive to government authority and indifferent to human rights. They also tend to be more hostile and more highly punitive, and more racially and ethnically prejudiced—and religious!—to boot. In the United States, guess what? Republicans cluster at the high end of the RWA Scale…


… In the study, "Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition," the Berkeley researchers found common psychological factors linked to political conservatism include: fear and aggression, dogmatism and intolerance, uncertainty avoidance, need for cognitive closure, and terror management that causes conservatives to shun and even punish outsiders and those who threaten the status of their cherished world views... /snip




http://lunaticoutpost.com/Topic-So-God-Made-a-Conservative





Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition

John T. Jost

Stanford University

Jack Glaser

University of California, Berkeley

Arie W. Kruglanski

University of Maryland at College Park

Frank J. Sulloway

University of California, Berkeley




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.





http://faculty.virginia.edu/haidtlab/jost.glaser.political-conservatism-as-motivated-social-cog.pdf

If you can't win on the merit of the argument, you have to demonize huh? The title seems correct.

Since conservatism is the opposition, liberals try very hard pathologize it, and the article is an attempt at Pathologizing Conservatism.

Had a very intelligent science teacher in high school. He presented both sides of an argument for students to decide for themselves. He didn't demonize one side or the other, because he knew that with logical thinking, the truth would win out.

Why not just present your argument vs trying to create a witch hunt?
 

TexasBred

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Flounder you have to go all the way to Berkley to find someone with an opinion like your own?? You must be one lonesome sob down there in Houston in the projects.
 

hypocritexposer

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flounder said:
Liberals do not recognize ambiguity and threat


Our amygdalas are not as developed as Conservatives' and if we were back in caveman times, we would not have had the sense to run from predatory animals.


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hypocritexposer

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Here's the original study, if anyone is interested. Notice the title is different than how Flounder posted it?


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http://amodiolab.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Jost-Amodio-in-press-Political-Neuroscience-Review.pdf
 
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