TL;DR conservatives are conservatives because they're more fearful than liberals, and they shift their views to the other side when presented with safety. Not surprising, as conservatism is a platform based on hate, and hate creates fear.
>Conservatives, it turns out, react more strongly to physical threat than liberals do. In fact, their greater concern with physical safety seems to be determined early in life.
>But before they answered the survey questions, we had them engage in an intense imagination exercise. They were asked to close their eyes and richly imagine being visited by a genie who granted them a superpower. For half of our participants, this superpower was to be able to fly, under one’s own power. For the other half, it was to be completely physically safe, invulnerable to any harm.
>If they had just imagined being able to fly, their responses to the social attitude survey showed the usual clear difference between Republicans and Democrats — the former endorsed more conservative positions on social issues and were also more resistant to social change in general.
>But if they had instead just imagined being completely physically safe, the Republicans became significantly more liberal — their positions on social attitudes were much more like the Democratic respondents. And on the issue of social change in general, the Republicans’ attitudes were now indistinguishable from the Democrats. Imagining being completely safe from physical harm had done what no experiment had done before — it had turned conservatives into liberals.
>this "study" was probably funded with taxpayer money
Academia was a mistake.
Sebastian Flores
In other words, liberals have a false sense of invulnerability from harm.
Xavier Clark
>if you stop viewing what you view as threats as being threats, you wouldn't vote for policies that fight against those threats okay?
Mason Turner
Why are homosexuals like me a threat?
Colton Powell
Diseases and detriments to society
Lucas Fisher
I think wilful ignorance is a detriment to society
Robert Stewart
I agree. And you'd have to be willfully ignorant not to recognize the statistically significant correlation between gays and disease, rape, child abuse, violence, etc.
Gavin Cruz
>TL;DR conservatives are conservatives because they're more fearful than liberals I was just watching a Jordan Peterson lecture where he said this doesn't hold up under scrutiny because when testing for personality, conservatives tend to be higher in conscientiousness and lower in neuroticism as a result of them being more orderly. Neuroticism is associated with the fear profile, and as we've all seen in the past 2 years leftists are extremely fearful of anything that goes against their worldview to the point of wanting to silence and exterminate it.
Isaiah Lewis
[citation needed]
Grayson Long
So if we deport all blacks, mestizos, and ackbars we will be come liberal?
Sounds good to me.
Brayden Morgan
>not being a gay conservative
Get with the times, fag. Ignore the Nazi LARPers
Caleb Ward
Fagit libral colege studys dont mean anything.
Genie, 2 choices, base study on that.
Genies have no limit. Real wish, ban gays, blacks, mestizos and numales and suddenly the world is better
Tyler Wilson
>if you live in an absolute fantasy you are more likely to be liberal
Oh no, reality BTFO! Just like last time this shitty thread was made. How will actuality ever recover?
Get the fuck out of here.
Leo Fisher
so what your saying is that liberals are incapable of probably identifying threats? wow it's almost like this has been know.
This is old news, wasn't there a similar study that was able to make conservatives more liberal by disabling the part of the brain that concerns threat recognition? It confirms my hypothesis that political differences are a matter of different mindsets rather than being exposed to different arguments. I guarantee if you put most Sup Forumsacks into one of these tests they wouldn't become any more liberal because their natural inclinations are (generally) backed by logic, unlike 90% of the public
Charles Richardson
Liberals have a false sense of security, mainly since most of them are wealthy & live in gated all white communities
How can you think massive Muslim immigration is a good thing for one, but somehow Liberals do
Kevin Cooper
>Sticks fingers in ear >LA LA LA LA Go figure.
Lucas Jackson
>some people are gay get over it >most people hate gays get over it
Jason Wilson
Wait, so conservatives who are pussies are really liberals???
Landon Carter
>had done what no experiment had done before — it had turned conservatives into liberals. Unbiased science? The objective is already in the research. Their objective is to KONTROL... how is wanting to convert people to your ideology kontributing to the liebrality. this shit is fucked uo and backwards and sideways.
Camden Morales
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Nicholas Taylor
It's not fear. You fear a bear. It's disgust. You are disgusted by disease. You are disgusted by festering wounds. You are disgusted by behavior that spreads those.
Thomas Jackson
>imagined being completely physically safe Well there you go. If you feel invincible like superman, the worries of mere mortals do not concern you and you can be a humanitarian.
Conservatives tend to be more grounded in reality.
Liam Price
>react strongly to physical threat you mean people will change their beliefs when threatened? Thank fucking god we have our top scientists working on this. What else can threatening physical harm make people do?
Daniel Sullivan
>But before they answered the survey questions, we had them engage in an intense imagination exercise. They were asked to close their eyes and richly imagine being visited by a genie who granted them a superpower. For half of our participants, this superpower was to be able to fly, under one’s own power. For the other half, it was This......isnt real? Have I dead and am in hell or heaven? What the fuck is happening? This isnt anything even remotely meaningful
Joshua Richardson
I've seen like three threads with hyperlinks, and a Norwegian archiving the link has been the first response in each. If it's been you each time, bless you anonymous.
Jaxon Carter
>people become liberal when we brainwash them into letting their guard down and ingoring their own safety
Makes sense.
I still don't want kikes controlling my media or niggers roaming my streets.
Henry Gonzalez
I hate what I fear and fear what I don't understand.
Kayden Roberts
Yeah liberals are just angry because the right wing is breaking their veneer of fantasy land shit
Joseph Ortiz
San Fransciso buttsex is creating news strains of super-viruses that are immune to anti-biotics.
Lincoln Adams
It goes the other way too. Show a liberal conservative fears are not unfounded and they become conservative too
Jaxon King
I wonder if putting liberals into threatening situations before the test makes them more likely to give conservative answers?
Jaxson Hernandez
I believe it's a bot. Disappeared for a few weeks.
Jace Perez
IN OTHER WORDS,
CONSERVATIVES ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND THE DANGERS OF THE WORLD AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF THOSE DANGERS.
IF EVERYTHING YOUR CIVILIZATION HAS BUILT OVER MILLENNIA IS BEING THREATENED, YOU SHOULD BE CAPABLE OF SENSING THAT DANGER AND RESPONDING TO IT.
WHY THE FUCK DO LIBERALS CONSTANTLY DESTROY OUR SOCIETY, AND IGNORE THE HARD TRUTHS OF LIFE, AND THEN MOCK AND DISPARAGE THE REST OF US FOR ACTUALLY SEEING WHAT A HELL THE WORLD IS, AND WANTING TO FIGHT AGAINST THAT HELL?
Alexander Adams
>make people believe fantasy than they will be liberal
Literally Maoist 101 , So Lefty want Cultural Revolution in America
>Yale Students Demand Removal of White Authors from Curriculum
Commie Gonna Commie
Parker Cruz
Tl; dr
You have to be a literal believe-in-fairies retard to be a liberal.
Saged
Xavier Morris
He's not, he answers people when they reply to him, he probably just has a script that shows him when someone makes a thread with a url and no archived link + a Sup Forums pass
Asher Sullivan
Say it with me folks. BULL FUCKING SHIT! There, now wasn't that easy?
Zachary Nelson
And this is why social science isn't considered a science.
Wyatt Rodriguez
Wrong fucker. Fear is the root of hate
Jonathan Parker
Thanks Nordbro
Cooper Powell
Well for instance
>be gay >tell everyone you are just like them >everyone says 'ok' and leaves you alone >go out partying and hooking up on GRINDR in the wee hours of the morning >contract HIV >complain to local representative that there isn't enoigh funding for HIV related treatment > go on disability >recieve tens of thousands pf taxpayer dollars for various self inflicted conditions >go missing after 3 am GRINDR hookup in bad part of town >gay community says police force is homophibic because they havent set up dedicated task force to track booty calls gone wrong
Once again...nobody would give a shite about your lifestyle if it didnt start to creep into ours
Leo Ward
Mostly, it's because most of you are libs. And libs are a threat to society. They seek to destroy it and replace it with something new that will fail. And the resulting chaos will harm many people.
Jason Carter
>if you're a delusional retard that doesn't have to live in the real world then you're more prone to being a liberal than a conservative No shit, I could've told them that for free.
Liam Sullivan
>this is "science"
Thomas Green
This is beyond parody. The article says they've never turned a Conservative into a liberal before. As if its never fucking happened before, then says the ONLY way they could was to have them imagine a perfect world where they could fucking fly.
Luke Brown
>more fearful I think you mean more disgusted, Mr. Memeflag shitposter
Jaxon Bennett
>They were asked to close their eyes and richly imagine being visited by a genie who granted them a superpower. For half of our participants, this superpower was to be able to fly, under one’s own power. For the other half, it was to be completely physically safe, invulnerable to any harm. WISH FOR OMNIPOTENCE RETARDS
Levi Stewart
>L;DR conservatives are conservatives because they're more fearful than liberals, and they shift their views to the other side when presented with safety. Not surprising, as conservatism is a platform based on hate, and hate creates fear.
>TL;DR NOTHING BAD EVER HAPPENS IN IMAGINATION LAND
Blake Martinez
Holy shit op is a faggot xD so when you give people magical abilities they suddenly dont care about the reality of their mortality.... So in other worlds, liberals are all delusional and detached from reality? Makes sense to me
Henry James
Pretty sure the liberal has to experience it, since the whole crux of their issue is that they tend to have a “didnt happen to me = not a real issue” when it comes to being prepared.
Robert Perez
This.
Nathan Walker
>fly away of this board faggot.
Brody Adams
>sounds like a typical faggot indoctrination session.
Gabriel Cook
You're so wrong, libertarians are fearful of conservatives and liberals. You say conservatism is a platform or hate and creates fear., I say it creates safety and open minded discussion, liberalism on the other hand is either agree or you're a nazi.
You've pushed a lot of libertarians through the alt right pipeline, and that's your fault,
The reason why your imaginative experiments didn't quite work out so well on conservatives or "no steppys" is because we live in the now. We live in the world for how it is.
There is no good, there's is no evil, there is no balence. It's just the way it is cuz it do my negro. Days the way dey always be too.
Isaac Lopez
There is absolutely nothing wrong with being conservative or liberal.
It's the extremes that are cancer and should be ignored.
Austin Morgan
Not to mention liberals and gays hate things too. People lost their business because they refused to bake a gay wedding cake...how tolerant
Jonathan Barnes
you wish faggit. ince you take the redpill the blues don't work anymore.
John Rodriguez
>conservatives are conservatives because they're more fearful than liberals This shit is ancient.
Chase Campbell
Wow maybe because there’s actual shit to be afraid of, fuckwit.
Jacob Stewart
Example: Sup Forums
Grayson Evans
>Shit that never happened
Andrew Smith
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Camden Bennett
>wtf ur only opposed to gay marriage cuz u think we wanna make u gay >20 years later >wtf I should be allowed to make my adopted kids trannies against their will, you asshole
Nathaniel Lewis
Why most people don't or won't understand is the policies that are being pumped up by media, are only like 5% of the population to make it seem normal.
A lot of people see these ads and think that's what's actually happening I the us and it's not. Judging by commercials alone half of couples are intersexual or interracial. That's like what, 5%?
It's not going to happen no matter how hard they push it.
Justin White
Daily reminder liberalism/socialism is the ideology of weak, low T, feminine, cowardly faggy men, and dumb women of course.
Justin Roberts
>Why are homosexuals like me a threat? Because you changed the social norms. What was once considered bad it is now good. Your faggotry established a precedent which trannies and in futures pedos will also use to normalise their degeneracy.
Mason Hernandez
yepp even the 'conservative' ones
Xavier Nelson
>They were asked to close their eyes and richly imagine being visited by a genie who granted them a superpower. the absolute state of liberal science
Benjamin Sullivan
Maybe a couple years ago, but now Sup Forums is just full of edgy teenagers who have 0 real life experience
Case in point
Jace White
IN OTHER WORDS,
CONSERVATIVES SEE DANGERS WHERE THEY DO NOT EXIST
SOCIETY HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER AND SOCIETY WILL CONTINUE TO GET BETTER
Cooper Sullivan
1 post by this ID.
Thomas Flores
so you're saying people who aren't afraid to get hurt are more likely to submit to the overwhelming power of a state? because that state can't harm them?
Sebastian Allen
You can do the exact same with liberals. Just let them pretend literally Hitler is coming back and they become much more conservative and fearful. They will be much more willing to shut down right wing speech, mass arrest right wing activists, install a policestate etc. This is doubly so when it is liberal Jews
