Conservatives are happier than the jealous Liberals.
Liberals are eaten up with hate!

Conservatives Happier Than Liberals - Yahoo! News

Jeanna Bryner
Senior Writer
LiveScience.com Wed May 7, 8:32 AM ET

Individuals with conservative ideologies are happier than liberal-leaners, and new research pinpoints the reason: Conservatives rationalize social and economic inequalities.

Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found. Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a person's tendency to justify, or explain away, inequalities.

The rationalization measure included statements such as: "It is not really that big a problem if some people have more of a chance in life than others," and "This country would be better off if we worried less about how equal people are."

To justify economic inequalities, a person could support the idea of meritocracy, in which people supposedly move up their economic status in society based on hard work and good performance. In that way, one's social class attainment, whether upper, middle or lower, would be perceived as totally fair and justified.

If your beliefs don't justify gaps in status, you could be left frustrated and disheartened, according to the researchers, Jaime Napier and John Jost of New York University. They conducted a U.S.-centric survey and a more internationally focused one to arrive at the findings.

"Our research suggests that inequality takes a greater psychological toll on liberals than on conservatives," the researchers write in the June issue of the journal Psychological Science, "apparently because liberals lack ideological rationalizations that would help them frame inequality in a positive (or at least neutral) light."

The results support and further explain a Pew Research Center survey from 2006, in which 47 percent of conservative Republicans in the U.S. described themselves as "very happy," while only 28 percent of liberal Democrats indicated such cheer.

The same rationalizing phenomena could apply to personal situations as well.

"There is no reason to think that the effects we have identified here are unique to economic forms of inequality," the researchers write. "Research suggests that highly egalitarian women are less happy in their marriages compared with their more traditional counterparts, apparently because they are more troubled by disparities in domestic labor."

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This does not surprise me because they do not think about cause and effect. So fucking what if we kill people for oil is their motto. Democrats and independents have higher morals. Selfishness at the expense of others can make one have an easier existance. i am sure George Bush and Dick cheney are very happy. They do not not give ashit that he fucked you all over. Fat, dumb and happy applies to most republicans.Deep thinkers are happy yet often disturbed when faced with injustice to others. Just read here on this board and you can see it for yourself how they think.

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what the fuck does this have to do with philosophy, wow your a moron

hey...you forgot lips.

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honor the fallen; http://www.militarycity.com/valor/honor.html
Iraq body count http://www.iraqbodycount.org/

But Obee!

I'm supposed to be on IGNORE; remember?




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Conservatives are happier because they believe (right or wrong) they have both the responsibility and the ability to control their personal situations. Liberals believe they have neither the responsibility nor the ability to change their situation. They need something else (the government and charity) to make them happy.

Self-reliant people will be happier than helpless victims.

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Our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

Spoken like a true Amerikan Retard Republicant, citizen!

....................factless bullshit.