[Wet Chicken]

I always knew there was a good reason why Mulder spouted some of the nonsense that he does

Study of Bush's psyche touches a nerve.

Julian Borger in Washington
Wednesday August 13, 2003




A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity".
As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction.

All of them "preached a return to an idealised past and condoned inequality".

Republicans are demanding to know why the psychologists behind the report, Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition, received $1.2m in public funds for their research from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

The authors also peer into the psyche of President George Bush, who turns out to be a textbook case. The telltale signs are his preference for moral certainty and frequently expressed dislike of nuance.

"This intolerance of ambiguity can lead people to cling to the familiar, to arrive at premature conclusions, and to impose simplistic cliches and stereotypes," the authors argue in the Psychological Bulletin.

One of the psychologists behind the study, Jack Glaser, said the aversion to shades of grey and the need for "closure" could explain the fact that the Bush administration ignored intelligence that contradicted its beliefs about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

The authors, presumably aware of the outrage they were likely to trigger, added a disclaimer that their study "does not mean that conservatism is pathological or that conservative beliefs are necessarily false".

Another author, Arie Kruglanski, of the University of Maryland, said he had received hate mail since the article was published, but he insisted that the study "is not critical of conservatives at all". "The variables we talk about are general human dimensions," he said. "These are the same dimensions that contribute to loyalty and commitment to the group. Liberals might be less intolerant of ambiguity, but they may be less decisive, less committed, less loyal."

But what drives the psychologists? George Will, a Washington Post columnist who has long suffered from ingrained conservatism, noted, tartly: "The professors have ideas; the rest of us have emanations of our psychological needs and neuroses."

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[EdGreene]

Originally Posted by Wet Chicken

I always knew there was a good reason why Mulder spouted some of the nonsense that he does

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If I said any of that about Dubya and the knuckle-draggers, I'd be called a racist or hate monger.

[Wet Chicken]

Well now you've got science to back it up















...besides, they're going to call you a racist or a hate monger anyway, simply because you don't 'agree' with them

[linskyjack]

So science backs up what basset, WC, Moi, Ed Greene have been claiming all along. Its a disease!

[EdGreene]

Originally Posted by linskyjack

So science backs up what basset, WC, Moi, Ed Greene have been claiming all along. Its a disease!

Yeah, like "Acid Reflux" is a "disease".

[Raeli]

What's sad is that if it really were a disease y'all would probably listen to us a lot more closely!

And frankly, I'm glad their wasting time and money on this nonsense. Better to keep those California intellectuals busy than to let them get involved with something that might do some real damage!

[linskyjack]

No, I'd go to Dr. Kervokian because it would be a terminal disease.

[Raeli]

Originally Posted by linskyjack

No, I'd go to Dr. Kervokian because it would be a terminal disease.

I meant that if we had a disease we would garner more respect and sympathy from you . . . unless you meant that if we had a disease you would want to put us all out of our misery?

[Wet Chicken]

It's nice to be vindicated by science

Now instead of arguing with mulder, we can actually feel sorry for him, and maybe even do our part to help him get federal funding for his affliction

I just hope those 'damn liberals' have a program set-up for him

[Wet Chicken]

Originally Posted by Raeli

I meant that if we had a disease we would garner more respect and sympathy from you

We've always had sympathy for you

God knows we wouldn't want to be in your shoes with that affliction

[Mulderator]

Originally Posted by Wet Chicken

It's nice to be vindicated by science

This must be the same scientist that has convinced you that aliens are regularly visiting the earth!

[Wet Chicken]

No, different scientists, same government

[bassetman]

Originally Posted by Wet Chicken

I always knew there was a good reason why Mulder spouted some of the nonsense that he does






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LOL

[HumbeOpinion]

Well, you have to realise that anyone can do a study of a topic and make the guidelines and the protocal totally built around the exact things they want to amplify.
In other words, these "psychologist" could have sat down and said, "Ok lets make a list of things that we can string together, things that we already know to be relative to any human on different degrees, and then analyze them, and then apply them to a few horrible connections; which are things that everyone has stereotyped as evil then sell it as a "new finding" and then our results will be exactly what we want since we prepped the package from the initial idea right up to it's birth into print.

In fact its like something like what fortune tellers do.....anyone could use relative situations and common human adjectives to describe their moment and tell two opposite people the same thing because if you kept it relative then both can grasp something from it. So I am sure this study was rigged and manipulated from it's conception to have the results you see in it now.

Geeze, how many times have you seen in court the prosecutor and the defense both using "experts in their scientific fields" to testify. And although BOTH are highly respected in their job, yet both give total opposite testimonies. You see...Money can just about create any result you want! Same here. I will just have to wait to see the "Liberalism study" and how much tax money that is going to cost!

About "a disease" hahahahaha or a "bad or good" gene is quite funny, but basically if there is any scientific awareness here is only that you might find that Conservative and Liberals probably do use the opposite side of their brains in certain decision makings. One more strongly using the left and the other more strongly using the right.

IMHO, I would sum this study up as it's basically a few liberal psychologist creating a study to indirectly manipulate their science to label Bush a dictator and any conservative intolerant.

Another way to understand this "study" is to say... Anyone can create anything if you can control it from conception and anyone can present the results they want if hate driven. For an example of this we need only to look at Michael Moore!

[Wet Chicken]

Originally Posted by HumbeOpinion

About "a disease" hahahahaha or a "bad or good" gene is quite funny, but basically if there is any scientific awareness here is only that you might find that Conservative and Liberals probably do use the opposite side of their brains in certain decision makings. One more strongly using the left and the other more strongly using the right.

You never studied psychology I take it