Why Do Conservatives Report Being Happier Than Liberals? The Contribution of Neuroticism
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Why are conservatives happier than liberals?
In this research, we drew on system-justification theory and the notion that conservative ideology serves a palliative function to explain why conservatives are happier than liberals. Specifically, 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 subj...
متن کاملConservatives are more easily disgusted than liberals
The uniquely human emotion of disgust is intimately connected to morality in many, perhaps all, cultures (Rozin, Lowery, Imada, & Haidt, 1999b). We report two studies suggesting that a predisposition to feel disgust (‘‘disgust sensitivity’’) is associated with more conservative political attitudes, especially for issues related to the moral dimension of purity. In the first study, we document a...
متن کاملConservatives report, but liberals display, greater happiness.
Research suggesting that political conservatives are happier than political liberals has relied exclusively on self-report measures of subjective well-being. We show that this finding is fully mediated by conservatives' self-enhancing style of self-report (study 1; N = 1433) and then describe three studies drawing from "big data" sources to assess liberal-conservative differences in happiness-r...
متن کاملLiberals vs. Conservatives
John Malcom directed the Student Union plant sale held in LaFortune last week, [photo by Bob Gill] WASHINGTON [AP] Liberal tax activists, facing a heavy sched ule of Proposition 13-style initia tives and referenda on Election Day next month, are vowing to wrestle the tax issue from conservatives. Their battle cry is a call for “ tax justice,” essentially an increase in corporate tax collectio...
متن کاملLiberals, conservatives, and conformity
Patterns of conforming behavior were compared for Ss empirically contrasted as conservatives, moderates, or liberals on a politically based Thurstone-type scale. In a split-plot factorial analysis-ofvariance design, liberalism-conservatism of the Ss and political identification of the influence sources were employed as between-Ss variables, while task difficulty opera ted as a within·Ss variabl...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Social and Political Psychology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2195-3325
DOI: 10.5964/jspp.v3i1.117