Is this true? Conservatives are happier than liberals.
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PostPosted: Tue, Aug 12 2008, 8:57 am EDT    Post subject: Is this true? Conservatives are happier than liberals. Reply with quote

Why conservatives are happier than liberals

Monday, August 11, 2008

The exuberance displayed by Barack Obama's supporters might make Republicans look like geriatric chess enthusiasts, but a new survey suggests that conservatives are happier than liberals - and offers one reason why.

Liberals, claim New York University psychologists Jaime Napier and John Tost, have a tougher time rationalising social and economic inequality than conservatives.

The recent surge in home foreclosures, for instance, is due to poor economic choices on the part of borrowers, a conservative might think. Liberals, on the other hand, seethe at predatory lenders and lax government regulation of the mortgage industry.

The result: conservatives mix a martini and hit the country club, while liberals write angry letters and stage protests.

Of course, American political views aren't so binary, yet the happiness divide seems to be real. Previous studies, including a 2006 survey from Pew Research Center have found the same general trend, much to the delight of conservative pundits like George Will, who noted that "liberalism is a complicated and exacting, not to say grim and scolding, creed."

The authors of the Pew study suggested income, religion and ideology all played a role in shaping the happiness divide.

To add some ammo to these explanations, Napier and Tost conducted a series of surveys on political attitudes of Americans and citizens of 8 Western countries, using previously collected data. Their results affirmed the "conservatives are happy, liberals are mad" findings of previous polls, but income, education, religion and other demographic variables couldn't explain the happiness gap.
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http://www.newscientist.com/blog/shortsharpscience/2008/08/why-conservatives-are-happier-than.html
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PostPosted: Tue, Aug 12 2008, 10:53 pm EDT    Post subject: Re: Is this true? Conservatives are happier than liberals. Reply with quote

If you're NOT angry, then you're NOT paying attention!
It depends on how you define conservative & liberal.
Some people just use the label for political convenience but pay no heed to what the textbook definition tells us. Labels are misleading anyway. The GOP was once the party of fiscal discipline and staying out of foreign entanglements!

WHAHAPPENED??????????????????
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