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MmeGigs -> RE: The Left-Wing/Right-Wing Brain Connection (4/10/2008 6:42:47 PM)
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ORIGINAL: kittinSol
Hippie reminded me of this study published last autumn: it's amusing, enlightening, and infurating - it confirms something I have suspected for a long time, which is that Right-Wing individuals are more rigid, aggressively inclined, and better organised than their mellow, laidback, Left-Wing counterparts.
There was a similar study a while back that found that conservatives tend to prefer a top-down, authoritarian style in their leadership, while liberals tend to prefer a concensus-driven, egalitarian style. If I recall correctly, the study also made connections with the fathering that those studied had experienced. Those with more strict, authoritarian parents tended to respond more to that kind of attitude in their leaders and grow up more conservative while those with more permissive, nurturing parents tended to respond more to that kind of leadership and grow up more liberal.
That makes a lot of sense when you think about how the parties actually operate. The R's are more effective at rallying the troops and more likely to punish anyone who steps out of line - they tend to shoot their wounded. The D's are more effective at building concensus and more likely to pick each other apart publicly - they tend to form their firing squads in a circle.
I don't really trust either major party, but I worry less about seeing the D's in power because they're less effective in wielding power than the R's, and seem more concerned about appearing overbearing, less winner-take-all, which makes sense since they can't count on everyone from their own party toeing the line. Since we're confined to two parties until they self-destruct under their own excesses, I prefer to have an R executive and a D legislature. That makes it tough for either party to push through anything that's irretrievably stupid and generally makes for better governing.
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