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History Channel: why conservatives are happier than ...
Http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354424,00.html
ndividuals with conservative ideologies are happier than liberal-leaners, and new research pinpoints the reason: Conservatives rationalize social and economic inequalities.
Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found.
Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a person's tendency to justify, or explain away, inequalities.
The rationalization measure included statements such as: "It is not really that big a problem if some people have more of a chance in life than others," and "This country would be better off if we worried less about how equal people are."
To justify economic inequalities, a person could support the idea of meritocracy, in which people supposedly move up their economic status in society based on hard work and good performance.
n that way, one's social class attainment, whether upper, middle or lower, would be perceived as totally fair and justified.
If your beliefs don't justify gaps in status, you could be left frustrated and disheartened, according to the researchers, Jaime Napier and John Jost of New York University.
They conducted both a U.S.-centric survey and a more internationally focused one to arrive at the findings.
"Our research suggests that inequality takes a greater psychological toll on liberals than on conservatives," the researchers write in the June issue of the journal Psychological Science, "apparently because liberals lack ideological rationalizations that would help them frame inequality in a positive (or at least neutral) light."
The results support and further explain a Pew Research Center survey from 2006, in which 47 percent of conservative Republicans in the U.S.
Described themselves as "very happy," while only 28 percent of liberal Democrats indicated such cheer.
The same rationalizing phenomena could apply to personal situations as well.
"There is no reason to think that the effects we have identified here are unique to economic forms of inequality," the researchers write.
"Research suggests that highly egalitarian women are less happy in their marriages compared with their more traditional counterparts, apparently because they are more troubled by disparities in domestic labor."
The current study was funded by the National Science Foundation.
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I am "very happy"
i also think people are where they deserve to be.
but i don't have the perspective from the left.
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Edited by swordsman at 05/08/2008 7:28 AM
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Does this guy look happy to you?
This is what happy conservatives do.
And this is what happy conservatives use.
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Edited by stnmann at 05/08/2008 8:58 PM
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Sigh
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Edited by American* at 05/08/2008 7:27 AM
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American doesn't sound like he/she is happy.
too bad
maybe work harder?
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Our research suggests that inequality takes a greater psychological toll on liberals than on conservatives," the researchers write in the June issue of the journal Psychological Science, "apparently because liberals lack ideological rationalizations that would help them frame inequality in a positive (or at least neutral) light."
As I've always suspected, conservatives lack conscience.
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Conservatives rationalize social and economic inequalities.
They also forgot the rationalization of political issues.
The same rationalizing phenomena could apply to personal situations as well.
Thanks for the article, more evidence of right wing insanity
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Just what is it you guys conserve--Money-Spending-Power-Lives-Energy-Environment-Whaaat!!!?
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You guys are proud of being irrational?
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Relax that was a joke
Albeit it's not always easy to express that with words and emoticons.
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> American doesn't sound like he/she is happy.
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Too bad
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Maybe work harder?
such a witty retort not
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Let me pigeon hole my lot in life.
That is what these studies seek to define.
I rail at that.
It gets my blood boiling.
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And yours was weaker.
maybe cuz you are so unhappy?
this country was made on the principle of improving your station thru hard work.
the American Dream.
you should get started.
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Do you think that repeating a lie makes it true?
Yes of course you do, because you're a neo-con.
Please tell me about how hard you work.
I'd really love to hear it.
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Whoa, talk about s lion's den.
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