Conservatives Believe Their Lives are More Meaningful Than Liberals...

[seer]

Interesting...

What is the meaning of life?

If you struggle to come up with an answer to the age-old conundrum, you could blame your left-leaning political ideologies, as new research claims that conservatives are more likely to have an established sense of their life purpose than liberals.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-a8452446.html

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1...48550618768241

[Charles]

I believe my life is far more meaningful now than it was when I was a conservative Christian. Statistics about what others feel on a subjective level does nothing to change that.

You usually don't put much trust in subjective perspectives, seer. How does this differ?

[EvoUK]

You usually don't put much trust in subjective perspectives, seer. How does this differ?

He likes the answer and can start a troll thread.

[EvoUK]

I would like to see the questions though- can't find them in the links above, but may have missed them.

If it's as simple as a question regarding 'ultimate' or 'objective' meaning to life then I would find the results unsurprising.

[One Bad Pig]

Interesting...

Meh. Note that "conservative" and "liberal" tend to connote different ideas abroad than in the US.

[Cow Poke]

He likes the answer and can start a troll thread.

And here you are.

[seer]

And here you are.

He fell into my evil trap!

[EvoUK]

Yeah, I'm a sucker for seer's troll threads.

[Cow Poke]

Yeah, I'm a sucker for seer's troll threads.

We all gotta get our jollies somehow.

[seer]

Yeah, I'm a sucker for seer's troll threads.

Thank you, thank you very much!

[EvoUK]

Seriously though- what was the questions? I'd be interested in taking this test!

Is it like those 'what bread are you' quizzes they put on Facebook so they can mine your data?

[seer]

Seriously though- what was the questions? I'd be interested in taking this test!

Is it like those 'what bread are you' quizzes they put on Facebook so they can mine your data?

I did find this:

The relation between conservatism and life satisfaction might be dependent upon neuroticism levelsHe found that differences in the levels of neuroticism in each state could account for the state-level association between higher conservatism and higher life satisfaction. Other factors he examined, including socioeconomic status, did not account for the associationRather it is the underlying higher neuroticism that tends to be more likely in liberals and the underlying lower neuroticism that tends to be more likely in conservatives that accounts for the greater happiness and life satisfaction in conservatives

https://www.psypost.org/2017/09/stud...-happier-49627

[EvoUK]

I see what you did there!

Fool me once, etc.

[seer]

I see what you did there!

Fool me once, etc.

Well I haven't been able to find the questions. But it wouldn't matter, you would still be unhappy...

[EvoUK]

Well I haven't been able to find the questions. But it wouldn't matter, you would still be unhappy...

Probably