Conservative or Liberal? One Has More Self-Control
Who has more self contro l, Republicans or Democrats? I've already given myself away that I'm a Democrat (and liberal, to boot), but a new study has found that conservatives showed a greater aptitude for certain aspects of self-control, performing better on tasks that test persistence and attention regulation. At the same time, liberals appear to exhibit greater self-control when confronted with the idea that free will exerts a negative impact on success. Hmm. This reminds me of my own confusion believing in God, and then Charleston happens. A lot of people believe God doesn't cause evil, man does, because of free will. (But God doesn't stop it either.) Anyway, the study was an attempt to take a contemporary approach to how liberals and conservatives explain behavior and the consequences of those explanations for self-control. The behavior of political conservatives is often seen as reflecting a Protestant work ethic, according to the authors, throug...