Posted on 05/30/2023 5:06:30 AM PDT by RaceBannon
Abstract In two pre-registered studies, we investigated the relationship of left-wing authoritarianism with the ego-focused trait of narcissism. Based on existing research, we expected individuals with higher levels of left-wing authoritarianism to also report higher levels of narcissism. Further, as individuals with leftist political attitudes can be assumed to be striving for social equality, we expected left-wing authoritarianism to also be positively related to prosocial traits, but narcissism to remain a significant predictor of left-wing authoritarianism above and beyond those prosocial dispositions. We investigated our hypotheses in two studies using cross-sectional correlational designs. Two nearly representative US samples (Study 1: N = 391; Study 2: N = 377) completed online measures of left-wing authoritarianism, the Dark Triad personality traits, and two variables with a prosocial focus (i.e., altruism and social justice commitment). In addition, we assessed relevant covariates (i.e., age, gender, socially desirable responding, and virtue signaling). The results of multiple regression analyses showed that a strong ideological view, according to which a violent revolution against existing societal structures is legitimate (i.e., anti-hierarchical aggression), was associated with antagonistic narcissism (Study 1) and psychopathy (Study 2). However, neither dispositional altruism nor social justice commitment was related to left-wing anti-hierarchical aggression. Considering these results, we assume that some leftist political activists do not actually strive for social justice and equality but rather use political activism to endorse or exercise violence against others to satisfy their own ego-focused needs. We discuss these results in relation to the dark-ego-vehicle principle.
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Confirms what we all know— leftwing ideology is a character disorder.
Conservatives value the well being of family over “social justice” goals.
"Some"? How about 99%!
Don’t trust what the left says, trust what they do. If they want you to go green, but they don’t do anything, it’s all about impoverishing and disenfranchising you.
“The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.”
A quote from the indispensable David Horowitz, of course.
Oh, my gosh, these people took way, way too many overly long words to say that extremists on both sides are nasty people who should be locked up.
Collectivists didn’t have a good home life growing up.
Obama being the poster-boy for the condition.
Somebody, probably, paid these “consultants” for their conclusions, which I coulda told ‘em for free!
everything lefturd loons say is an excuse for statism and control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKTltWU1e7w
“I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees from Columbia and other well-known educational centers and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people. And they were dead serious.”
That would be 99% of Manhattan.
Yup.
Trying to hide the gerbil up our butts
The following is an oxymoron.
A contradictionary statement.
The results of multiple regression analyses showed that a strong ideological view, according to which a violent revolution against existing societal structures is legitimate (i.e., anti-hierarchical aggression), was associated with antagonistic narcissism (Study 1) and psychopathy (Study 2).
However,
( the bait and switch weasel word )
neither dispositional altruism nor social justice commitment was related to left-wing anti-hierarchical aggression.
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The left LOVES to confuse by useing a mountain of words in a verbal shell game.
The results of multiple regression analyses showed that a strong ...
ideological view ( aka dispositional altruism )
...according to which a violent revolution against existing societal structures is legitimate (i.e., anti-hierarchical aggression aka
social justice commitment related to left-wing anti-hierarchical aggression.)
, was associated with antagonistic narcissism (Study 1) and psychopathy (Study 2).
Hitler was a leftist. So was Mussolini. They both were devoted leftists.
They were National Socialists, while the only flavor of leftists acknowledged in the West to day, are International Socialists.
“However, neither dispositional altruism nor social justice commitment was related to left-wing anti-hierarchical aggression.”
It was always a rationalization, a backfilled justification for satisfying their own selfish desires.
Exactly.
What is being described is what the Word of God calls “reprobation”; it is spiritual psychopathy/sociopathy and the clinical description is found in Rom.1:18-32 and II Tim. 3:1-5.
The only way to protect our children and ourselves is to avoid those who manifest this pathology.
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