Low-effort thinking promotes political conservatism

Quote from RCG Trader:

When you mean no one, you mean,
I mean no one with credibility
... All of you believe in the abolition of civil rights, per your own posts.
NO dumb ass I believe in individual liberty
After all, per Lucrum, women should not vote.:D
I believe I said MAYBE they shouldn't vote

You are a prime study of those primal cave man like thinking processes that define conservative. The epitome of an undifferentiated mind.

Or, in caveman parlance, a loser.:)
And you're a prime example of a race obsessed loon in nursing drag relegated to third shift where, lets be honest, employers do not send their best and brightest.
 
Quote from Lornz:

Someone showed this to me today, and I couldn't resist posting it here. Let the fighting commence! :D

Abstract
The authors test the hypothesis that low-effort thought promotes political conservatism.

In Study 1, alcohol intoxication was measured among bar patrons; as blood alcohol level increased, so did political conservatism (controlling for sex, education, and political identification).

In Study 2, participants under cognitive load reported more conservative attitudes than their no-load counterparts.

In Study 3, time pressure increased participants’ endorsement of conservative terms.

In Study 4, participants considering political terms in a cursory manner endorsed conservative terms more than those asked to cogitate;
an indicator of effortful thought (recognition memory) partially mediated the relationship between processing effort and conservatism. Together these data suggest that political conservatism may be a process consequence of low-effort thought;
when effortful, deliberate thought is disengaged, endorsement of conservative ideology increases.

Concluding Remarks
Low-effort thinking promotes political conservatism. This claim provides a counterweight to early psychological perspectives on political ideology that tended to see conservatism in somewhat pathological terms (Adorno et al., 1950).

Our findings suggest that conservative ways of thinking are basic, normal, and perhaps natural. Motivational factors are crucial determinants of ideology, aiding or correcting initial responses depending on one’s goals, beliefs, and values. Our perspective suggests that these initial and uncorrected responses lean conservative.

http://psp.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/03/16/0146167212439213

Using critical thinking one can quickly see that this study is biased and wrong. It isn't "conservatism" that the individual falls back on rather it is their so called "default" setting. Do the same study with the same conditions in a bar full of homosexuals to compare...

Pretty sure that the study will conclude.. "Low-effort thinking promotes political liberalism"...

This is all crap made up by the left which constantly tries to prove how much "smarter" they are than the right... It's bullshit plain and simple. Also, no one ever said that conservatism is wrong in certain situations...

P.S.

I call BS on the alcohol part of the study... I've never met people who turned into prudes whenever they get drunk. If anything alcohol increases promiscuity.
 
Quote from Trader666:

The phony "war on women"? Please. Birth control pills are readily available for $9/month.

That's $108/yr.

IOW... The Administration, but offering "free birth control"... is hoping to garner the majority of the female vote with $108 of OPM.

Sounds like a plan.

:mad:
 
Quote from pspr:

What do you people expect from a moron living in liberal Norweigh publishing a leftist article on a U.S. website just so he can watch the Americans argue.

Don't even bother acknowledging this tripe.

I'm a libertarian bordering on anarchism (with a humanistic twist). However, I do enjoy observing the animals in this particular zoo.

I'm also not a moron. I've been tested by several doctors and I'm well into the top 1% on all standardized tests. That score translates to nearly 2.5 times the median IQ of a moron http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moron_(psychology).
 
Quote from Lucrum:

I mean no one with credibility NO dumb ass I believe in individual liberty

I believe I said MAYBE they shouldn't vote


And you're a prime example of a race obsessed loon in nursing drag relegated to third shift where, lets be honest, employers do not send their best and brightest.


You believe in individual liberty and yet entertain the thought that 'maybe' women should not vote. Gentlemen, do you see the dissonance at work here?

I can understand your employer/employee dichotomy as you have no skills to be independent, and work WITH companies, rather than FOR companies. I am on third shift for a variety of very good reasons.:) When our night nurse quit, I quickly moved to replace her. I was on second shift at that time. I decide when and where I want to work, because I have an in demand skill.

You, cabbie, have to take whatever bone is thrown your way, and you do have my sympathies.
 
Quote from Lornz:

Someone showed this to me today, and I couldn't resist posting it here. Let the fighting commence! :D

Abstract
The authors test the hypothesis that low-effort thought promotes political conservatism.

In Study 1, alcohol intoxication was measured among bar patrons; as blood alcohol level increased, so did political conservatism (controlling for sex, education, and political identification).

In Study 2, participants under cognitive load reported more conservative attitudes than their no-load counterparts.

In Study 3, time pressure increased participants’ endorsement of conservative terms.

In Study 4, participants considering political terms in a cursory manner endorsed conservative terms more than those asked to cogitate;
an indicator of effortful thought (recognition memory) partially mediated the relationship between processing effort and conservatism. Together these data suggest that political conservatism may be a process consequence of low-effort thought;
when effortful, deliberate thought is disengaged, endorsement of conservative ideology increases.

Concluding Remarks
Low-effort thinking promotes political conservatism. This claim provides a counterweight to early psychological perspectives on political ideology that tended to see conservatism in somewhat pathological terms (Adorno et al., 1950).

Our findings suggest that conservative ways of thinking are basic, normal, and perhaps natural. Motivational factors are crucial determinants of ideology, aiding or correcting initial responses depending on one’s goals, beliefs, and values. Our perspective suggests that these initial and uncorrected responses lean conservative.

http://psp.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/03/16/0146167212439213

The abstract alone is a little fuzzy on the facts got anything else besides a black box of assumptions?
 
Quote from Lornz:

I'm a libertarian bordering on anarchism (with a humanistic twist). However, I do enjoy observing the animals in this particular zoo.

I'm also not a moron. I've been tested by several doctors and I'm well into the top 1% on all standardized tests. That score translates to nearly 2.5 times the median IQ of a moron http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moron_(psychology).

Neaahhh... The verdict on Norway is that all Norwegians are morons... and gay...!
 
Quote from CoolTraderDude:

Using critical thinking one can quickly see that this study is biased and wrong. It isn't "conservatism" that the individual falls back on rather it is their so called "default" setting. Do the same study with the same conditions in a bar full of homosexuals to compare...

Pretty sure that the study will conclude.. "Low-effort thinking promotes political liberalism"...

This is all crap made up by the left which constantly tries to prove how much "smarter" they are than the right... It's bullshit plain and simple. Also, no one ever said that conservatism is wrong in certain situations...

P.S.

I call BS on the alcohol part of the study... I've never met people who turned into prudes whenever they get drunk. If anything alcohol increases promiscuity.

Yes, I think the "research" should be classified as dubious, but, then again, most of social "science" is just that.

There was a documentary series on this in Norway a couple of years back, Hjernevask (Brainwash), that simply tore apart the social scientists. It's 50/50 Norwegian/English (with interviews of quite a few American and British scientists (Pinker, e.g.)) and might be of interest to some:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KQ2xrnyH2wQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
 
Quote from Lornz:

Yes, I think the "research" should be classified as dubious, but, then again, most of social "science" is just that.

There was a documentary series on this in Norway a couple of years back, Hjernevask (Brainwash), that simply tore apart the social scientists. It's 50/50 Norwegian/English and might be of interest to some:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KQ2xrnyH2wQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Great... Now I feel slightly bad about calling Norwegians morons and gay! :D
 
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