Shrugging Off The Violence Inherent In The System

By Kleinheider Posted on May 8, 2008 at 6:59 am

A study from the National Science Foundation reveals that those with right-wing ideological predisoposition tend to be a happier lot:

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.”

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