Conservatism

11Apr10

“Jost et al. (2003a) integrate personality characteristics within a motivated social cognition approach to understanding political conservativism, and their metaanalysis suggests that death anxiety, dogmatism–intolerance of ambiguity, and the needs for order, structure, and closure are positive correlates of conservativism, whereas negative correlates include openness to experience, uncertainty tolerance, and integrative complexity.” (Ozner and Benet-Martinez, 2006. ‘Personality and the Prediction of Consequential Outcomes‘)

Conservatives: they’re fucked up.

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