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Conservatives happier than liberals - Broncos Forums - Denver Broncos Fan Forums and Live News Feed
Http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354424,00.html
Quote: : Why Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
By Jeanna Bryner
Individuals 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.
In 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.
I thought liberals were just unhappy because of the Bush administration.
Now I find out that they are just irrational.
Interesting subject though, does your political leaning make you unhappy, or do certain unhappy outlooks indicate which political direction you lean to.
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Quote: : http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354424,00.html
I thought liberals were just unhappy because of the Bush administration.
Now I find out that they are just irrational.
Interesting subject though, does your political leaning make you unhappy, or do certain unhappy outlooks indicate which political direction you lean to.
Mine don't because I don't see everything as doom and gloom.
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Of course, being right will make anyone happy.
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Quote: : Of course, being right will make anyone happy.
This is true. It also true that even when I'm wrong I'm still right.
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Duh! What's next?
People with umbrellas stay drier when it rains?
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I have to sit far away from the keyboard or else my tears will short it out.
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Quote: : http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354424,00.html
I thought liberals were just unhappy because of the Bush administration.
Now I find out that they are just irrational.
Interesting subject though, does your political leaning make you unhappy, or do certain unhappy outlooks indicate which political direction you lean to.
We're unhappy because our chicks don't shave their legs.
Also, I went to Whole Foods today in my Prius, and they were out of Sun Chips.
Seriously though, I'm a pretty happy dude most of the time so I can't say that your political leaning makes you one way or the other.
Though I do think that conservatives tend to be older people with jobs and families (which = happiness usually) while most of the liberals I know are young and have to eat Ramen noodles with ketchup and call it spaghetti.
I guess I'm just a Dem with a house and a car and responsibility, so I don't have time to go to war protests or throw blood on people wearing fur.
Actually, I hate those people.
They should get a job!
My....my God....I'm turning Republican...I have the sudden urge to part my hair to the right and watch C-Span.
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I'm happy I'm not an unhappy lib lefty.
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Thus proving ignorance is bliss...
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What's the difference between on optimist and a pessimist?
The pessimist is more informed.
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I thought it was the liberals who were smug....
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Quote: : Of course, being right will make anyone happy.
Being right as opposed to being wrong, or being right as opposed to being left?
i woulda guessed the conservatives were happier because they had more cash.
. . .
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Quote: : being right as opposed to being wrong, or being right as opposed to being left?
i woulda guessed the conservatives were happier because they had more cash.
. . . This is a little more accurate I assure you.
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Http://www.blogthings.com/howliberal...iveareyouquiz/
to be on such a ridiculous site this quiz ain't bad...
My Political Profile:
Overall: 80% Conservative, 20% Liberal
Social Issues: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal
Personal Responsibility: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal
Fiscal Issues: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal
Ethics: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal
Defense and Crime: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal
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Hey conservatives -- you think you have it good, try being libertarian!
My life is awesome.
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