Posted on 02/08/2006 1:45:55 PM PST by presidio9
Rutgers University scientists say their research suggests some people voted for George W. Bush rather than John Kerry because of concerns about death.
Florette Cohen, a graduate student in social psychology and Daniel Ogilvie, a psychology professor, used research based on the 2004 presidential election. They found voters in a "psychologically benign state of mind" preferred Kerry to Bush, but Bush was more popular than Kerry after voters received a subtle reminder of death.
Citing an Osama bin Laden tape that became public a few days before the election, the researchers say many Americans' unconscious concerns about death resulted in some people being scared into voting for Bush.
The researchers collaborated with professors Sheldon Solomon of Skidmore College, Jeff Greenberg at the University of Arizona and Tom Pyszczynski at the University of Colorado.
The study appears in the journal Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy.
Copyright 2005 by United Press International. All Rights Reserved
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NOT MY FAULT!!!!! DEMOCRAT VICTIMOLOGY CONTROLS!!!! WHINE WHINE WHINE(/S)
I think you nailed it. Do you get paid for your "study" now?
Hmmm...out west. Could be Seahawks fans...similar methodology.
Yes... those who fear death vote Republican...
Those who embrace death vote Democrap.
Didn't need an expensive study to tell me that...
Even people who voted for Kerry did "prefer Kerry". They just hate Bush. They hate Bush because they believe lying moonbats like Michael Moore and Whoopi Golberg. And no, the moonbats are not the majority.
OK -- stop laughing now ..
Could it be an euphemism for "brain-dead, foul-mouthed, commie and Islamic loving Democrats"?? I think so.
It's a clinical term for being clueless.
This means that we have to plant and cultivate the voters in "psychologically malicious state of mind" - i.e. curmudgeons and zotters.
"Fear of death factors into how we vote (Voters preferred Kerry in 04, but OBL made them switch)"
I drive past this (New Brunswick Rutgers Campus) bastion of educational excellence every day on my way to work. I am not surprised how clueless they are. The also drive like A$$holes.
Yeah, yeah, the voters really wanted John 'effin Kerry....yeah, that's it.
Hey, hey, I've got an idea...let's get a lawsuit going in Florida. Maybe we can get the Florida Supreme Kangaroos to interpret the ballots marked for Bush as really meaning "Kerry".
On the other hand, this is a beautifully apt illustration as to the TRUTH that Democrats are weak on defense. People shouldn't trust Democrats with their national defense.
And I speak as a former 'rat myself. But now I'm a
Recovering_Democrat.
"One hundred and eighty-four Rutgers university undergraduate students (114 females and 70 males) were randomly assigned to a mortality salient or TV salient control condition. Participants were recruited from a social psychology course."
Especially interesting is the concluding paragraph of the study:
The best antidote to this problem may be to monitor and take pains to resist any efforts by candidates to capitalize on fear-mongering. As David Myers (2004) so eloquently put it in an op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times: "It is perfectly normal to fear purposeful violence from those who hate us. When terrorists strike again, we will all recoil in horror. But smart thinkers also will want to check their intuitive fears against the facts and to resist those who serve their own purposes by cultivating a culture of fear." As a culture, we should also work to teach our children and encourage our citizens to vote with their "heads" rather than their "hearts" as research (Simon et al., 1997) has demonstrated that mortality salience effects are attenuated when people are asked to think rationally. And it may also be helpful to raise awareness of how concerns about death affect human behavior. Hopefully, such measures will encourage people to make choices based on the political qualifications and positions of the candidates rather than on defensive needs to preserve psychological equanimity in response to reminders of mortality.
So, in an America without death, John Kerry would have been elected President! So, the Democrats have to come out foursquare and the Pro-Life pary, and they'll have the next election sewn up!
Ooops! Wait a minute...
LoL good thing Americans are not moslems.
Dear Rutgers,
Your reasearchers are full of 100% pure horse crap.
Sincerely,
All FReepers and people with common sense.
Of course, this could be taken another way:
"Hopefully, more voters who wistfully long for the good old days of the Clinton years will, when they see bin Laden, recall that Slick was more interested in his golf game than in capturing bin Laden, and treated terrorism as a law enforcement problem, not a military one. And will make a rational decision to never vote for a nitwit liberal ever again."
What about when people were given images of Viet Nam?
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