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25.08.2015

A fashionable topic today is the study of the psychological characteristics of liberals and conservatives. And scientists always learn something unpleasant about conservatives: either they are more prone to self-deception than liberals, or they are more timid ...

Well, it’s true, it recently turned out that both conservatives and liberals read mainly like-minded people on social networks, but for various reasons they don’t see and don’t want to see the opinions of the opposite side. In fairness, let's talk about a study in which conservatives were "better" than liberals.

In fact, there were three studies - at two Midwestern universities and on the Internet, through a survey; the latter was attended by volunteers from all over the United States. The results of the research team led by Joshua Clarkson of the University of Cincinnati presented in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

Participants in the first two experiments saw on a computer screen the names of colors (red, blue, green, yellow) on a colored background that did not match the word - for example, "yellow" could be written on a blue background. Participants had to press the spacebar the moment they identified a word. With this elementary task, the conservatives completed faster, which indicates their better ability to concentrate. In the third experiment, participants were given a seven-letter word and had to make as many English words out of it as they could, while they themselves decided when to finish the work.

Conservatives have been working on anagrams longer than liberals. But what is interesting is that the participants in this study were divided into two groups: those who believed that a person’s willpower, his personal responsibility for the result improves self-control, and those who believed that, on the contrary, it worsens. Before testing, each group was given an abstract of a fictitious scientific article to read, confirming their beliefs in this regard. So, in the first group, the conservatives showed the best results, and in the second - the liberals.

Obviously, a healthy society needs both liberals and conservatives. Openness to novelty, readiness to work in any situation, under the influence of any unaccounted for factors are necessary, but faith in diligence that overcomes everything is also a useful quality. Both in personal life and in society.

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