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Conservatives and Liberals Motivated by Different Psychological Factors, New Study Shows
NYU ^ | 11/11/20 | NYU

Posted on 06/01/2023 3:36:00 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Specifically, the studies by Jost and his colleagues, including Michael Strupp-Levitsky, who conducted the work as an NYU undergraduate and is now a doctoral candidate at Long Island University-Brooklyn, showed that those moral foundations known to be more appealing to liberals than conservatives—specifically, fairness and harm avoidance—are linked to empathic motivation, whereas the moral foundations that are more appealing to conservatives than to liberals —such as ingroup loyalty and deference to authority—are not.

In fact, the “binding foundations” cited by previous studies as evidence of a broad “moral palette” are associated with authoritarianism, social dominance, and economic system justification—matters quite apart from morality. Moreover, they are also associated with psychological motives to reduce uncertainty and threat, consistent with a theory of political ideology as motivated social cognition that Jost and other collaborators proposed in 2003.

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I know a bunch of psychological gobbledy gook, but still somewhat interesting
1 posted on 06/01/2023 3:36:00 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

But it’s bullshit.


2 posted on 06/01/2023 3:38:39 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: DallasBiff

So…..basically…..liberals are thieving, murdering whores.


3 posted on 06/01/2023 3:38:40 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: DallasBiff

Paging Captain Obvious


4 posted on 06/01/2023 3:40:12 PM PDT by MrHead (I souldn't have to change for other peoples comfort.)
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To: blueunicorn6

Yeah, I already knew that.


5 posted on 06/01/2023 3:40:18 PM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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To: DallasBiff

Deference to authority?

What nonsense is this???

Deference to authority is a liberal motivator.


6 posted on 06/01/2023 3:41:04 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: DallasBiff

“…fairness and harm avoidance”

I’m sure they mean leftists are more this than conservatives. I’m sure they don’t mention that conservatives have these motives but choose the arbiter to be someone other that the government and or the media.


7 posted on 06/01/2023 3:42:32 PM PDT by stanne
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To: DallasBiff

I like my tagline better…


8 posted on 06/01/2023 3:46:52 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. )
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To: blueunicorn6

I know that.


9 posted on 06/01/2023 3:50:12 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: rdl6989

So did I.


10 posted on 06/01/2023 3:50:19 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

That’s a good tagline.


11 posted on 06/01/2023 3:50:36 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: DallasBiff

There was another study that showed that leftists tend to be socio/psychopaths and malignant narcissists, but we already knew that.


12 posted on 06/01/2023 3:59:00 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: DallasBiff

It is simple to me:
Conservatives want to be left alone to live our lives

Liberals find that intolerable and insist on contolling us


13 posted on 06/01/2023 4:08:11 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: HamiltonJay

Yup. Modern leftists aren’t “liberals” in the classical sense. Many that identify as conservative are the real liberals. Pro free speech, limited or no mandates, non intrusive government (not authoritarian) and so forth. I don’t call hard core democrats liberals any more. They are about as far from liberal as you can be. They are fascists.


14 posted on 06/01/2023 4:13:17 PM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: DallasBiff
Previously, some have argued that liberals have an impoverished sense of morality, emphasizing only issues of fairness and harm avoidance, which they see as individualistic, whereas conservatives have a broader “moral palette” that values ingroup loyalty, obedience to authority, and the enforcement of purity sanctions, which they view as “binding foundations.”

The broader moral palette of conservative morality caught my eye, partly because of this:

Jonathan Haidt: The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives

This piece is a bit old but it holds up well. Haidt has been working on related issues for years. His construct has evolved since this was done, but the substance is the same. Caution: DO NOT be put off by the opening. Hold your fire. This is a Ted Talk. Haidt, a social psychologist so a member of a liberal tribe, was then at UVA; he has since moved to the NYU business school. He knows his audience. He sets them up and establishes rapport. Then he flips them. I'd love to see audience shift polling on this talk. It's well done.

Haidt is one of those liberals who is somewhere in the process of getting mugged by reality. He has a lot of good talks on YouTube. He identifies himself as a liberal, but he is very concerned with the loss of viewpoint diversity in the university, the collapse of academia into a monoculture, and the many related pathologies associated with this. He was one of the founders and prime movers of The Heterodox Academy, whose membership consists of academics committed to intellectual pluralism on campus. Just in the last year or two, he resigned some academic post (not going to look it up now) because he found the university too intolerant to allow honest proceedings; he hasn't been purged, but he's been nicked and he's outspoken about the problem.

I first came across Haidt quite a few years ago when I read a talk he was giving to (I think) the national conference of the American Psychological Association, or some such group. He began by asking people to raise their hands to identify as liberal (the overwhelming majority), moderate (a saving remnant) or conservative (a tiny handful). He then noted that social scientists routinely study group differences with regard to things of value. An underrepresentation for blacks or women, for example, of 25 or 50 percent would be regarded almost by default by social psychologists as evidence of discrimination, perhaps conscious and overt but (very possibly) unconscious and a matter of subtle cues, mentorship, and collegial treatment for ingroup members. He then pointed out the obvious: a room full of social psychologists in which conservatives are underrepresented by a factor of 50 or 100 should prompt people in the profession to turn their default analysis on themselves and recognize that they have a problem. He's been working on this for a long time.

This is an interesting talk and it reaches the same conclusion about the broader foundations of conservative morality. Again, do not be put off by the initial framing. He's baiting the hook for a room full of Tedsters.

15 posted on 06/01/2023 4:47:10 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: MrHead
Paging Captain Obvious.

Cpt

16 posted on 06/01/2023 4:57:18 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Fortunately despite aging I've been spared the ravages of maturity.)
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To: DallasBiff

Bkmk


17 posted on 06/01/2023 4:59:01 PM PDT by kelly4c
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To: DallasBiff

Their base assumptions aren’t correct. Liberals are not more concerned with fairness. They define fairness differently.

To a conservative, fairness is a matter of merit.
To a leftist, merit must be abandoned to be fair.

The left defines truth differently.

The left defines everything differently.


18 posted on 06/01/2023 5:19:23 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: DallasBiff

Left=Insanity

Right=Sanity


19 posted on 06/01/2023 5:59:53 PM PDT by George J. Jetso
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To: DallasBiff

Oh, so Liberals are empathetic carers, while conservatives are mean greedy bastards indifferent to others. Yeah, right.

Here is the actual difference:

Conservatives want individuals to be free to compete in an open society; believe, say, and do what they see fit; make their own way in the world; and, keep what they have earned. They wish to help others through voluntary charity and tough love. Entitlements and tolerating crime/sorriness ruins people — it does not help them.

Leftists (Liberals are gone, don’t fool yourselves) want to be part of a collective organism; force other people to think and live as they are told by a governing elite; use government to take what conservatives have earned; and, distribute it among themselves. Leftists want to “change” others, and force YOU to pay for it. But they feel good about themselves for doing it, so the inevitable failure doesn’t matter.


20 posted on 06/01/2023 6:09:36 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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