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POPSThe psychopathology of the right wing mind (or "Antara unplugged") The paper concludes: "At the core of political conservatism is the resistance to change and a tolerance for inequality." Jost and his team also concluded that conservatives are less "integratively complex" than liberals, meaning that the conservatively-inclined don't feel obliged to offer plausible or coherent justifications for their beliefs, (even when those beliefs are logically contradictory or counter-productive). They also found that rightwing personalities are "comfortable viewing the world in black and white." Statistically speaking, the rightwing personality favours a world of untested moral absolutes, solipsistic reasoning and uncomplicated causality -- an outlook that is reassuringly strong in tone and very easy to comprehend.
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POPSSeeing What We Want to See This is a perfect case of how bias affects the interpretation of results. Is the ability to stick to a position good or bad? Like a lot of things, "it depends". If you love your wife and she is leaving because she has a hard time sticking to things, then you might like her to be more "conservative". If you want to move and she wants to stay where you are, then you might like her to be more liberal. The old adage that optimist finds the glass half full, the pessimist half empty, and the engineer finds the glass twice as big as it needs to be, comes to mind. All are "right", but I'd argue that the engineer is much close to "science". Science is NOT about values. It is about data, information, models, etc. When there is an attempt to make science into a religion (as atheists often do, because they realize that "something is missing"), there is a big problem. Science truly is "the God that doesn't care"; by definition.
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