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Thursday, 18 January 2007
Another Misleading Analysis Of
Conservatism By Leftist Psychologists

A Methodology Critique in Defense of Those Wascally Wepublicans
Iron Shrink (H/T: Michelle)

You may have heard the news by now. People who hold conservative political opinions are suffering from a syndrome in need of a cure. How do we know this? Because a professor of psychology has demonstrated it to be so. The news has been getting a lot of press lately.

Since his graduate school days, John T. Jost, who currently holds position as an Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University, has been studying the reasons for which people adopt conservative political ideology. His most publicized achievement is a 2003 article titled Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition (from here on out, I’ll refer to it as “the study.”) It was touted in the February 2007 issue of Psychology Today, as “the most comprehensive review of personality and political orientation to date.”

Don’t confuse comprehensiveness with integrity. ...

JonJayRay at Stop The ACLU has more here.

Posted by Bill Faith on January 18, 2007 at 03:56 PM in Moonbat Madness | Permalink

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