Mike M wrote:
> Are Conservatives Happier Than Liberals?
> Jeanna Bryner,
> Posted: 2008-05-07 20:07:48
> Filed Under: Politics News, Science News
> LiveScience.com
>
>
> (May 7) - Individuals with conservative ideologies are happier than
> liberal-leaners, and new research pinpoints the reason: Conservatives
> rationalize social and economic inequalities.
>
> Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing
> individuals re****ted greater life satisfaction and well-being than
> left-wingers, the new study found. Conservatives also scored highest
> on measures of rationalization, which gauge a person's tendency to
> justify, or explain away, inequalities.
>
> The rationalization measure included statements such as: "It is not
> really that big a problem if some people have more of a chance in life
> than others," and "This country would be better off if we worried less
> about how equal people are."
>
> To justify economic inequalities, a person could sup****t the idea of
> meritocracy, in which people supposedly move up their economic status
> in society based on hard work and good performance. In that way, one's
> social class attainment, whether upper, middle or lower, would be
> perceived as totally fair and justified.
>
>
>
> If your beliefs don't justify gaps in status, you could be left
> frustrated and disheartened, according to the researchers, Jaime
> Napier and John Jost of New York University. They conducted a U.S.-
> centric survey and a more internationally focused one to arrive at the
> findings.
>
> "Our research suggests that inequality takes a greater psychological
> toll on liberals than on conservatives," the researchers write in the
> June issue of the journal Psychological Science, "apparently because
> liberals lack ideological rationalizations that would help them frame
> inequality in a positive (or at least neutral) light."
>
> The results sup****t and further explain a Pew Research Center survey
> from 2006, in which 47 percent of conservative Republicans in the U.S.
> described themselves as "very happy," while only 28 percent of liberal
> Democrats indicated such cheer.
>
> The same rationalizing phenomena could apply to personal situations as
> well.
>
> "There is no reason to think that the effects we have identified here
> are unique to economic forms of inequality," the researchers write.
> "Research suggests that highly egalitarian women are less happy in
> their marriages compared with their more traditional counterparts,
> apparently because they are more troubled by disparities in domestic
> labor."
>
> The current study was funded by the National Science Foundation.
>
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>
I guess the old saying "ignorance is bliss" rings true with this study.
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