Study finds conservatives more anti-democratic, driven by two psychological traits

[Buttoneer]

https://www.psypost.org/both-siderism-debunked-study-finds-conservatives-more-anti-democratic-driven-by-two-psychological-traits/

A recent study published in Communications Psychology has found that anti-democratic tendencies in the United States are not evenly distributed across the political spectrum. According to the research, conservatives exhibit stronger anti-democratic attitudes than liberals, and this difference can be partially explained by psychological traits, specifically right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation.

[Silent Type]

1. Hope they didn't spend much studying the obvious.

[3catwoman3]

5. Breaking news - this just in. Rain...

…is wet! 😉

[Zambero]

2. And they're piss poor losers as well!

[B.See]

3. Translation: They still have dreams of

OWNING people. In other ways if not LITERALLY.

[msongs]

4. conservatives trying to stop progress can only feel good when they crap on everyone else nt

[BadgerKid]

13. I call it "They're not happy until you're not happy." Nt

[Metaphorical]

6. Social status

Conservatives in general tend to be much more focused on social status, especially their social status, and EVERYTHING else comes as a consequence of that. There's a reason that narcissism tends to be primarily a conservative trait (along with sociopathy and antisocial characteristics). The man is the dominant person in his house, the employer is the dominant person in his work structure. In religious terms, conservatives tend to make up the overwhelming number of deacons and prelates, and the heads of industries are usually conservative, and of course politics tends to attract conservatives in droves. Even when such people are not at the top of the hierarchy, they are usually not far from it.

Liberals, by and large, are problem solvers, and usually tend not to have as much ego or be that interested in social status, save as a means to solve problems. They favor competence over confidence, which is part of the reason conservatives don't like liberals. The base template of the conservative is the used car salesman, and there are a great number of people who are like that.

[KS Toronado]

7. Did Reagan start it with his "The Government is the problem"?

[msongs]

14. nah they were having a sad back when hitler lost nt

[carpetbagger]

18. The "authoritarian personality" research peaked when he was gov

At the time, it focused more on race and the likes of Agnew and Wallace. Reagan was the guy who tied that to government with the black people buying Cadillacs with welfare trope.

[BaronChocula]

9. I've been saying this for YEARS!

American conservatism isn’t a political bent. It’s a psychological one. Democrats have been trying to negotiate policy with psychologically dysfunctional creeps for quite some time.

And just tonight I came up with this nugget: The Republican Party is the WWE of politics. Feel free to share that one!

[jfz9580m]

11. Awesome post.nt

[BaronChocula]

12. TY!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

19. There is a website

Worth checking out. PsychoPac

[LW1977]

10. I'm calling bullshit on all polls

And if I’m wrong, may God have mercy on this country!

[Skittles]

15. did they really need a study to figure that out?

it's pretty damn obvious

repukes LOVES THEM some authoritarianism

[multigraincracker]

16. I'd like to see a study to see if their is a correlation

between free testosterone levels and political leanings.
I have my own theory.

[BWdem4life]

17. 6% of Democrats expressed positive feelings toward the insurrectionists?

That's pretty hard to swallow.