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17. The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives: Personality Profiles, Interaction Styles, and the Th

The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives:
Personality Profiles, Interaction Styles, and the
Things They Leave Behind

http://www.psych.nyu.edu/jost/Carney,%20Jost,%20&%20Gosling%20%282008%29%20The%20secret%20lives%20of%20liberals%20.pdf

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A longitudinal study by Block and Block (2006) revealed that many of the
personality differences between liberals and conservatives that appear in adult-
hood are already present when children are in nursery school, long before they
define themselves in terms of political orientation. Specifically, preschool children
who later identified themselves as liberal were perceived by their teachers as:
self-reliant, energetic, emotionally expressive, gregarious, and impulsive. By
contrast, those children who later identified as conservative were seen as: rigid,
inhibited, indecisive, fearful, and overcontrolled. These findings—especially in
conjunction with adult data (see Jost et al., 2003a, 2003b, for a summary) and
growing evidence that there is a heritable component of political attitudes (Alford,
Funk, & Hibbing, 2005)—appear to substantiate the convictions of Adorno et al.,
Tomkins, Wilson, and many others that basic personality dimensions underlie
ideological differences between the left and right.

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