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Originally Posted by juan valdez
mapping personality traits on to political views is research being conducted extensively in the personality psychology field. not only are they collecting data independently , but you can google big 5 personality test and take a basic one online. guess what happens after youre done the test? yes they give you the results but before that, they also ask you to answer some brief political questions before they provide results. millions of data points are being collected with various methods.
This is your response to my asking for citations backing up what you claim are the results of scientific research? really? And I see 13ball owned you simply by re-posting your reply in which you, in response to another poster's request for citation, simply linked to an online personality test as if to say "See? The existence of an online personality test supports the alleged research findings I tout as underpinning my slander of left wing thought and people.".
Do you not understand what we are asking for? despite the simple, standard request? FYI there actually is research being done into political ideology in behavioral psychology - actual research - not like the imagined research of your idiotic bluffs that you assume must exist, somewhere.
Here is an example of actual research from psychology which supports claims I make about conservatives being very fearful people:
Red Brain, Blue Brain: Republicans and Democrats Process Risks Differently
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Democrats showed significantly greater activity in the left insula, a region associated with social and self-awareness. Meanwhile Republicans showed significantly greater activity in the right amygdala, a region involved in the body's fight-or-flight system. These results suggest that liberals and conservatives engage different cognitive processes when they think about risk.
In fact, brain activity in these two regions alone can be used to predict whether a person is a Democrat or Republican with 82.9% accuracy. By comparison, the longstanding traditional model in political science, which uses the party affiliation of a person's mother and father to predict the child's affiliation, is only accurate about 69.5% of the time.
Do you see how this might explain Trump's claims of murderers and rapists flowing across the border would resonate with conservatives? Even though the claims are absolutely false?
Here is another:
Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition
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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 meanr = .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
Wow look at those correlations. That certainly aligns with common experience, except for the last one. Who knew conservatives actually have lower self esteem? They seem so sure of themselves...a little too sure as it turns out. Wil's feeling threatened by hearing a foreign language being spoken makes sense in the context of these correlations.
And just so you don't think I am picking only unflattering results of research into the conservative psychology, here is a study exploring why conservatives are happier:
Why are Conservatives Happier than Liberals?
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... in three studies using nationally representative data from the United States and nine additional countries, we found that right-wing (vs. left-wing) orientation is indeed associated with greater subjective well being and that the relation between political orientation and subjective well-being is mediated by the rationalization of inequality. In our third study, we found that increasing economic inequality (as measured by the Gini index) from 1974 to 2004 has exacerbated the happiness gap between liberals and conservatives, apparently because conservatives (more than liberals) possess an ideological buffer against the negative hedonic effects of economic inequality.
"easiest recession ever"
(the poor people) "They should drill for oil in the food deserts IMO"
Those are conservative quotes from this forum exhibiting the attitude that no amount of suffering by others will dent their personal contentment in the slightest.
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Originally Posted by juan valdez
im assuming you are asking me out of curiosity vs just hopelessly tying to confirm you are right about everything, so you're welcome
I was curious how full of **** you were and I have my answer- all the way. You are all the way full of ****.
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let me clear this up for you, yes i am clearly trying to help you understand that generally the far left is occupied by what we traditionally call beta males.
Since you have no studies to back this up whatsoever, can you at least give your own personal, biased, anecdotal, meaningless observations backing this up? To start with, what is the "far left" in your view? Very few here would qualify, in my view.
And what are "beta males" in your view? Is it just defined on affectations or on real social status? because when I see a jacked dude with a pickup truck with testicles hanging off the back and with bumper stickers claiming his membership in the armed forces, I immediately think "beta male", which is probably the opposite of what you think. In my view, this is a guy who is nothing but a tool. He can make all the claims he wants but at the end of the day he is being sent out to risk his life for a bunch of thin lies and and waayyy less than market value. That's a tool. You can go to the gym 3 hrs. a day, you can get into pointless fights, you can do any desperate thing to signal to the world how masculine you are, but if you're ultimately just a tool then I don't see that as being an alpha male.
So let's define the terms "far left" and "beta male" before continuing so that we both know what we are actually referencing.
Last edited by Deuces McKracken; 04-30-2017 at 02:04 PM.