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From Huffington Post, don't think we have discussed....
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From Huffington Post, my daughter sent me this, but I only have access at work to The Nest, will someone post the whole article? Pretty please
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| Conservatives and liberals don't seem to agree about much, and they might not agree about recent studies linking conservatism to low intelligence and "low-effort" thinking.... | |
Re: From Huffington Post, don't think we have discussed....
Conservatives and liberals don't seem to agree about much, and they might not agree about recent studies linking conservatism to low intelligence and "low-effort" thinking.
As The Huffington Post reported in February, a study published in the journal "Psychological Science" showed that children who score low on intelligence tests gravitate toward socially conservative political views in adulthood--perhaps because conservative ideologies stress "structure and order" that make it easier to understand a complicated world.
Ouch.
And now there's the new study linking conservative ideologies to "low-effort" thinking.
"People endorse conservative ideology more when they have to give a first or fast response," the study's lead author, University of Arkansas psychologist Dr. Scott Eidelman, said in a written statement released by the university.
Does the finding suggest that conservatives are lazy thinkers?
"Not quite," Dr. Eidelman told The Huffington Post in an email. "Our research shows that low-effort thought promotes political conservatism, not that political conservatives use low-effort thinking."
For the study, a team of psychologists led by Dr. Eidelman asked people about their political viewpoints in a bar and in a laboratory setting.
Bar patrons were asked about social issues before blowing into a Breathalyzer. As it turned out, the political viewpoints of patrons with high blood alcohol levels were more likely to be conservative than were those of patrons whose blood alcohol levels were low.
But it wasn't just the alcohol talking, according to the statement. When the researchers conducted similar interviews in the lab, they found that people who were asked to evaluate political ideas quickly or while distracted were more likely to express conservative viewpoints.
"Keeping people from thinking too much...or just asking them to deliberate or consider information in a cursory manner can impact people's political attitudes, and in a way that consistently promotes political conservatism," Dr. Eidelman said in the email.
The study was published online in the journal "Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin."
What do you think? Are conservatives less intelligent than liberals--or more intelligent? And is conservatism a matter of lazy thinking?
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Broad generalizations typically aren't good indicators of how a group or groups of people act, live, or think.
It's lazy logic.
I would be interested to see this from the standpoint of "black and white" vs. "shades of gray" thinking. That's what this sounds like to me. How easy is it when all your values and viewpoints are black and white? In my experience that's how most conservatives see things. It's how I certainly saw things, until I started thinking critically and realizing (for me) that the world has far more shades of gray than I was taught to believe. That's when I went liberal LOL
I certainly see this in more extremely conservative people, not just your average republican/conservative.
uh oh.
oooooooh now this post has potential!!
Hasn't it also been shown that the higher level of education you have the more likely you are to be liberal? I thought we had a post on that once.
I have nothing positive to say about this article. It doesn't surprise me that some psychology researcher would come up with that correlation. I know plenty of highly educated conservatives who think things through and more than enough liberals who just like the catch phrases. Works both ways.
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I don't think there's as much suspicion of intellectuals/intellectualism among liberals, though. Politically, at least, it behooves more conservatives to at least act like they're not smart. Hence, the people who were interviewed at exit polls saying they didn't trust Gingrich because, essentially, of his education. Hence, Bush II, a Yale graduate deliberately acquiring a "dumb" accent and making obvious grammar and syntax errors.