The psychology of conservatism and liberalism

[moshker]

"A meta-analysis by Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski, and Sulloway in 2003 analyzed 88 studies from 12 countries, with over 22,000 subjects, and found that death anxiety, intolerance of ambiguity, lack of openness to experience, uncertainty avoidance, need for cognitive closure, need for personal structure, and threat of loss of position or self-esteem all

Comments

[ravenmanifesto]

Wow, that's incredible, mind if I re-post this? Do you have any links to these at all, btw?

[moshker]

Please

[dlowber]

The psychological rationale for conservatism cracks me up, because six of the seven are symptoms of the human condition, namely, being alive.

[moshker]

I suspect that the degree of those symptoms are more relevant than their presence.