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Whiny Kids Make Conservative Adults. Really?
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| March 21, 2006
Posted on 03/23/2006 4:27:56 AM PST by Past Your Eyes
An article in today's Toronto Star looks at a new study that purports to show that whiny children grow up to be conservatives. The study, published in the Journal of Research in Personality, is interesting in that it is longitudinal. It studied 95 kids for decades. UC Berkeley professor Jack Block found that:
"The whiny kids tended to grow up conservative, and turned into rigid young adults who hewed closely to traditional gender roles and were uncomfortable with ambiguity.
"The confident kids turned out liberal and were still hanging loose, turning into bright, non-conforming adults with wide interests. The girls were still outgoing, but the young men tended to turn a little introspective."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: berkeley; conservative; whine; whinykids
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Maybe you saw this thread yesterday. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1601191/posts This is a different take on it.
To: Past Your Eyes
Where was the Barf Alert?
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posted on
03/23/2006 4:33:07 AM PST
by
Old Sarge
(My vigor to fight has been renewed.)
To: Past Your Eyes
Nice retort to a stupid piece of garbage. From Berkeley no less!
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posted on
03/23/2006 4:33:21 AM PST
by
Misschuck
To: Past Your Eyes
I think a growing number of liberals are beginning to question "their media and studies". I found one yesterday who was telling others that they should question the results of this study.
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posted on
03/23/2006 4:35:04 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: Past Your Eyes
If I had lived in Berkeley effing California when I was little, I'd have whined all the time too.
As it was, I was the perfectly behaved little child ;-)
Some say I still am
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posted on
03/23/2006 4:35:25 AM PST
by
advance_copy
(Stand for life, or nothing at all)
To: Past Your Eyes
Where did they find that many conservatives of any age in Berkley?
I would like to know who funded this trash. How much did the researchers make on it and who published the insanity.
My 5 year old could be more objective about barney than this lunatic about political attitude and tendancies.
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posted on
03/23/2006 4:36:09 AM PST
by
Tenacious 1
(Not today.)
To: Past Your Eyes
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posted on
03/23/2006 4:37:18 AM PST
by
msnimje
(SAMMY for SANDY --- THAT IS WHAT I CALL A GOOD TRADE!!!)
To: Old Sarge
"Where was the Barf Alert?" I figured it was implicit in the title. ";^)
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posted on
03/23/2006 4:38:32 AM PST
by
Past Your Eyes
(Ignorance is contageous and has lots of friends while wisdom is often a lonely fellow.)
To: Past Your Eyes
And the liberals grew up to be whiny kids...
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posted on
03/23/2006 4:38:47 AM PST
by
Kenton
To: Past Your Eyes
For the simple explanation, ask yourselves: Who said which kids were
whiny & insecure? Berkeley teachers! When would a
Berkeley teacher consider a 3-4 year old
"whiny" & "insecure"? When the kid...
- won't put a condom on his/her banana (and in the 60s then smoke it)
- won't play with dolls if male or with trucks if female
- won't dress and pray as a Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist
And I'm sure I missed many more!
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posted on
03/23/2006 4:41:58 AM PST
by
drpix
To: Past Your Eyes
one only needs to read the headlines of any major liberal news paper to know this study is total fabrication. Who are the lefts hero's .... Cindy Shehan (one of the all time greatest Whiners), Michael Moore (Makes his living by whining. He's so bad, that if he can't find facts to prove his point he makes them up), his audiences (goes without saying), Hillery, Harry Reid, etc.....
Who was it in Hitlers organization that said ..."Tell a Lie long enough and they will believe it to be true"? The entire left wing of the Democratic party lives by that creed, whining at every opportunity
To: msnimje
Too bad there weren't 3 choices: Approve, Disapprove and Stupid. The first one is kind of funny. The others all qualify as stupid.
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posted on
03/23/2006 4:46:36 AM PST
by
Past Your Eyes
(Ignorance is contageous and has lots of friends while wisdom is often a lonely fellow.)
To: Past Your Eyes
The confident kids turned out liberalI'm going to puke. This is the most absurd thing I ever heard. We all know in the real life who's the whinner.
To: Past Your Eyes
If whiners become conservatives, then obviously they get it out of their systems before adulthood. In other words, they grow up.
Liberals never get over it and never grow up. They just start whining that government should take over for their parents and give them everything.
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posted on
03/23/2006 4:50:49 AM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
To: Past Your Eyes
Too bad there weren't 3 choices: Approve, Disapprove and Stupid. The first one is kind of funny. The others all qualify as stupid.
You are the second person to tell the first one was funny. It must be my total dislike for Luckovich and respect for the hard choices made by the president, but I think it is disgusting.
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posted on
03/23/2006 4:51:23 AM PST
by
msnimje
(SAMMY for SANDY --- THAT IS WHAT I CALL A GOOD TRADE!!!)
To: Past Your Eyes
your tax dollars at work ladies and gentlemen.
To: Past Your Eyes
I can say this study is total and utter BS, I was a horrible kid and a bully type from grade school thru HS! LOL I grew up when I was about 21.
To: advance_copy
Whiny kid for a liberal is a kid who complains to CPS about being sodomized.
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posted on
03/23/2006 5:02:34 AM PST
by
JudgemAll
(Condemn me, make me naked and kill me, or be silent for ever on my gun ownership and law enforcement)
To: Past Your Eyes
"The confident kids turned out liberal and were still hanging loose, turning into bright, non-conforming adults with wide interests. The girls were still outgoing..."
ROFL outgoing! And if you don't believe her she'll kick your a$$. (:^D)
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posted on
03/23/2006 5:09:06 AM PST
by
WideGlide
(That light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash.)
To: Past Your Eyes
I love when academia uses the term "tradional gender roles". How sick they have become.
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posted on
03/23/2006 5:16:33 AM PST
by
roofgoat
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