Conservatives vs. Liberals

Still on lockdown? Need some fascinating reading? Here you go!

From FishEaters Forum

Thought I'd make a "master list" of studies and articles that reveal the differences between conservatives/traditionalists/right libertarians/Republicans on the one hand, and leftists/liberals/Democrats on the other. So here goes:

• Conservatives understand liberals better than liberals understand conservatives:
  
  https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/brainsto...ults/46113
• Republican have greater probability knowledge, higher verbal reasoning ability, better question comprehension:
  
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...9614001081
• Republicans outperform Democrats when it comes to basic knowledge:
  
  http://www.people-press.org/2011/11/07/w...-pictures/
• Conservatives are smarter than liberals:
  
  https://integral-options.blogspot.com/20...arter.html
• Conservatives are better at geography than Democrats:
  
  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017...omacy.html
• Conservatives are more scientifically literate:
  
  https://anepigone.blogspot.com/2011/03/r...cally.html
  
  (see also how the real "war on science" comes from the Left: https://www.city-journal.org/html/real-w...14782.html)
• Identifying with the Tea Party correlates positively with scores on the science comprehension measure:
  
  http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/20...-comp.html
• Liberals may say they're more morally invested on climate, but conservatives are more likely to walk their talk and be energy efficient at home:
  
  https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plu...t-at-home/
•  Conservative politicians look better:
  
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...2716302201
• Conservative voters look better, too:
  
  https://www.indy100.com/article/conserva...er-8181196
• Liberals are more neurotic:
  
  http://www.polipsych.com/2011/02/11/libe...happiness/
• Liberal States are more psychopathic:
  
  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?...id=3185182
   
• Liberals are more psychotic:
  
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...shows.html
• Conservatives have more self-control:
  
  http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/seriou...-JmVC7wY1k
• Conservatives are nicer people:
  
  https://www.thecut.com/2016/07/why-it-to...icism.html
• Conservatives give more to charity and more often volunteer their time:
  
  https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/1...81505.html
• Conservatives are: cleaner; more aware of threats; just as concerned as liberals are about the vulnerable but have different solutions; less willing to betray others; less willing to do something disgusting; less willing to be disrespectful toward authority; and less willing to compromise their morals:
  
  https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...ical-wars/
• Leftists are just as likely to be authoritarian as those on the Right are to be authoritarian:
  
  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full...pops.12470
  
  -- and history proves it:
  
  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar...7X11000493
  
  (see also New York Magazine's "How Social Science Might Be Misunderstanding Conservatives": http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/201...tives.html)
• Conservatives are less rigid, less prone to extremism, and more intellectually open to subtlety of thought (ambivalence) than liberals:
  
  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10....lCode=sppa
• Conservatives are less likely to block/defriend people on social media or to end personal friendships because of politics:
  
  http://www.journalism.org/2014/10/21/pol...ia-habits/
• Liberals were more strongly repulsed by individuals whose politics diverged from their own than conservatives:
  
  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10....0620904275
• Republicans are happier than Democrats (and those who worship frequently are happier than those who don't):
  
  http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2006/02/1...happy-yet/
• Conservatives are more conscientious:
  
  http://www.psych.nyu.edu/jost/Carney,%20Jost,%20&%20Gosling%20(2008)%20The%20secret%20lives%20of%20liberals%20.pdf
• Conservatives are more balanced when it comes to the moral dimensions of Harm/care, Fairness/reciprocity, Ingroup/loyalty, Authority/respect, and Purity/sanctity. Liberals focus more on Harm/care and Fairness/reciprocity, whereas conservatives focus on all of them equally:
  
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19379034
  
  https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/26/what...ok-review/
• Sphere of moral concern: liberals have "leapfrogging loyalties," caring about vague universals while conservatives care about the concrete "real world." This even extends to having loyalties to the non-human over the human :
  
  https://www.researchgate.net/publication...ral_circle
• Liberal whites are disloyal, preferring other groups to their own:
  
  https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-an...te-saviors
• -- But much of liberal white moral posturing and virtue signalling about how groups other than their own are great while their own group is bad is just talk:
  
  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?...id=3434463
• Regardless of age, gender, church attendance, income, and education, Republicans report much better mental health than Democrats or Independents:
  
  https://news.gallup.com/poll/102943/repu...thers.aspx
• Conservatives have more marriage, less non-marital childbearing, and more family stability:
  
  https://ifstudies.org/blog/red-families-...re-happier
• Conservatives have better sex lives:
  
  https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/p...n-liberals
• Conservatives more likely to see life as having meaning and purpose, are more likely to downplay their own struggles, and are less likely to fake acting happy:
  
  https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...ls/566105/
   
• Despite thinking themselves as more open and tolerant that conservatives, liberals and conservatives are similarly motivated to avoid exposure to one another's opinions:
  
  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar...3116304024
• Liberals are less goal-oriented than conservatives:
  
  http://neuropolitics.org/Anxiety-Depress...erates.htm
• Liberals just as likely as anyone to express prejudice against groups with dissimilar values and beliefs:
  
  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar...4619301251
• Three studies show that Democrats overestimate the explicit prejudice of the American electorate, and thus see disadvantaged groups as less electable:
  
  https://psyarxiv.com/s52qz/
• Liberals are just as likely as conservatives to discriminate against others:
  
  http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...0613476096
• White liberals self-present less competence to minorities than to other Whites—that is, they patronize minorities stereotyped as lower status and less competent:
  
  https://psyarxiv.com/pv2ab/
• The tendency to perceive oneself as a victim is associated with feelings of moral superiority, entitlement, revenge desire, lack of trust & empathy, & negative attributions to others:
  
  https://www.researchgate.net/publication...nsequences
• Research finds people on both sides of the ideological divide caricature the other, but those on the far left are the most guilty:
  
  https://psmag.com/economics/political-st...ives-50420
• Areas that vote Democrat have high rates of murder, violence, rape, and unemployment:
  
  http://www.projectrepublictoday.com/2017...mployment/

The above maps were taken from two totally different sources.
Top map: The redder the area, the more murders there are
Bottom map: Blue areas are Democrat; red areas are Republican