crockett

Science shows us that Conservatives are very unhappy people compared to Liberals. Something I think we already knew by reading the average GFY consertive posters here on GFY.. Always angry now science proves it....

Who are happier, liberals or conservatives? - CBS News

Republicans may be running the show in Congress but it seems it's the Democrats who are happier.

That's the finding from a wide-ranging study published in Science Thursday examining the happiness of conservatives and liberals. As part of the study, the researchers examined 432 million words in the Congressional Record over the past 18 years as well the "smiling behavior" of politicians in their publicly available photographs from 2013.

Liberal members of Congress used a higher ratio of positive words, such as "interested," "excited," "enthusiastic" and "proud" to negative words, such as "afraid," "upset," "distressed" and "irritable." Those with more conservative beliefs, meanwhile, were less likely to be found beaming in their portraits.

"Conservatism predicted significantly less intense facial action in the muscles around the eyes that indicates genuine happiness," the study found, adding that liberal politicians "smile more intensely and smile more genuinely."

The study expanded beyond politicians to look more broadly at the happiness of conservatives and liberals. Examining 47,257 Twitter status updates from conservatives and liberals as well as 457 photos from LinkedIn, they found a similar pattern.

"Together, our studies found that political liberals exhibited more frequent and intense happiness related behavior than political conservatives," the authors wrote. "Although the effects in these studies were small, they consistently revealed greater happiness-related behavior among liberals, rather than conservatives."

The findings run contrary to earlier studies, mostly from surveys, in which conservatives reported they were happier than liberals. Scientists in those studies credited the upbeat nature of conservatives to their optimism, a sense they are in control of their lives and their "transcendent moral values."

In the latest research, the authors said their findings reflected the limitations of self-reporting in the earlier work. But they also were careful to say that the expressions of happiness they found didn't mean one group of politicians or their supporters were any happier than another nor that this so-called happiness had anything to do with specific events, such as the tenure of President Obama.

"We are quite explicit that we are not arguing that liberals or Democrats are happier - or especially that becoming one will make you happier," the University of California, Irvine's Peter Ditto, a co-author on the study, told CBS News.

Rather, the authors suggest their findings "illuminate the contradictory ways that happiness differences can manifest across behavior and self reports."

"In order to measure happiness correctly, we need to know what it is," Ditto said. "But what is happiness? Is it whether or not you say you are happy, or is it that happy is as happy does? What do you do if someone says they are happy but it doesn't reveal itself in their behavior? If someone says they are happy, are they really happy? Or is it possible that someone can state quite genuinely that they are happy, but not really be happy?"

David Azerrad, the director of the Simon Center for Principles and Politics at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, said it was absurd to even consider measuring happiness.

"Are we meant to believe that tweets and pictures on LinkedIn are meant to capture something as profound as happiness? I don't think so," Azerrad said. "There are moments of happiness but that isn't the same thing as happiness. I don't think these things get quantified."

Azerrad also took exception to the idea that you could judge whether someone was happy simply based on their political ideology, saying it is much more complicated and has to do with a range of other factors including income or their religion.

"Can you imagine how George Washington or Abraham Lincoln would have reacted to a study like this?" he said.

Still, other researchers said they did see value in the study.

Oscar Holmes IV, an assistant professor of management at Rutgers who has examined political orientation and wellbeing, said the study design "was very clever and is among the first of my knowledge to look at systematically examining behavioral representations of happiness in relation to political orientation."

Holmes said the latest study echoes his earlier work which found citizens in liberal countries tended to exhibit more happiness than those living in conservative nations.

"Taken together, our research and this study lends more support toward the idea that liberal political orientations and policies have a more positive impact on the wellbeing of citizens than conservative political orientation and policies," he said.

slapass

Like this wasn't totally obvious. If you spend your days trying to control others it has to get old.

L-Pink

You stupid son of a bitch you expect me to read all that? Fuck you!










j/k
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crockett

J. Falcon

Stupid too..

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dyna mo

Science confirms liberals are fucking up Science.

bronco67

It doesn't take a scientist to know people with that viewpoint come from a place of being a miserable prick.

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Oh Noes -- it can't be true!

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Phillipmcd1

Why Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/op...-all.html?_r=0

Scholars on both the left and right have studied this question extensively, and have reached a consensus that it is conservatives who possess the happiness edge. Many data sets show this. For example, the Pew Research Center in 2006 reported that conservative Republicans were 68 percent more likely than liberal Democrats to say they were “very happy” about their lives. This pattern has persisted for decades.

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crockett

Maybe in 2006 they were happier but this is 2015.., it's pretty clear they are very angry all the time. Consertives from 2006 aren't the same as consertives from 2015, they have become much more crazy.. Thanks Obama..

bronco67

The party has really changed since 2006 definitely. Anyone could see that bunch of reasonable assholes has morphed into a bunch of gaping assholes.

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EonBlue

Common sense confirms that liberals are full of shit.

From the article that supposedly scientifically confirms that conservatives are angry people:


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crockett

I think you are proving the point in more ways than you can imagine.

dyna mo

this would make sense if this written in crayon survey didn't cull data from 1997-present.

ilnjscb

hahaha!! based on whether politicians smile correctly!

what a great study - "science" to be sure!

Hey hold on, I'm going to justify my political beliefs based on the on-air televised facial expressions of a politician!



Thanks, you brought some humor and laughter into my day.

crockett

They just weren't as vocal then because "their" guy was in office. It doesn't however take much looking around to see how crazy they have become. Look at any social media site, the commits on fox news, hell even the commits at CBS. The real change seemed to come from when they changed from "religious conservatives" whom were crazy, but at least somewhat held back by their "christian titles" and then to the Tea Party movement. The tea Party movement really amplified and brought the conservative hate to the forefront. They were no longer tied back by the religious pandering but full speed ahead to show how big of a asshole they could be. Everything suddenly became liberal this, socialist that.. racism came out in the open and so on..

It's just constant hate mongering all out in the open as there was no longer anything to hide. Obama getting elected was the catalyst as a black man in the oval office was the last straw..

dyna mo

the survey used data from the congressional record, expanding that to 100 million people? more lib science.......

but hey,a lib pointing a condescending finger at others for being less happy than them, as if that's what happy people do. I'm not surprised.

time to ban something!

EonBlue

Yes, whatever you say kid.

If I follow your simpleton "theory" logically then I believe you have you outed yourself as a conservative because you are one of the angriest and most unhinged people around here.


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aka123

What amazes me, is that US has just two options in certain things: liberals or conservatives, or republicans or democrats. Or are these even one and the same thing? One party is the liberals and the other conservatives?

And many presidents and senators are Bush.

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dyna mo

again, it's a study of the congressional record, it only takes into account recorded words of congressmen in office on the record. that's it.

aka123

Yes, I did read it. And I don't care about your liberals vs conservatives competition.

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dyna mo

science!

dyna mo

yet here you are.

aka123

There was "science" at the headline.

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2MuchMark

Yeah, right...



This is how Sen James Inhofe, Republican, tried to prove that there is no global warming - by taking a snowball to work.


Here's another tidbit: That dumb fuck, that piece of shit, that #47Iran #47Traitor, that total asshole of a human being Ted Cruz, tried to tell NASA to stop worrying about Climate Change.

Ted Cruz Tells NASA to Stop Worrying About Climate Change and Focus on Space - NationalJournal.com

Fortunately Nasa told him to go fuck himself

NASA chief schools Ted Cruz for trying to downplay global warming research

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dyna mo

says the guy who thinks science can be settled and uses that tripe in debate.

EonBlue

Another angry conservative joins the conversation.


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dyna mo

this from a happy liberal.

science, proofed!

crockett

"kid", "simpleton", "unhinged" all words which seem very angry in your context. I would ask why you are so angry but I already know you are a conservative..

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ilnjscb

Listen, basic logic:

(alliterative, a la Beowulf) Because a person on a "side" other than the one you have self-selected to slavishly serve does something stupid does not make you smart, or superior, or a winner! It does not mean anything at all about you! The other "side" failing to prove a point does not prove yours!

dyna mo

Religious People Much Happier Than Others, New Study Shows - Breitbart

+ most repubs are religious while most dems are not.

if you want to be truly happy, you should denounce libtardism, embrace God and become a republitard!

EonBlue

Yes, because those terrible and awful words are certainly the most violent and vulgar display of anger ever seen on the internet. Oh the humanity! Who will save your innocent and righteous self from such a terrifying display of unparallelled anger?

You must think you are some sort of special psychological whiz-kid or something for believing you can deduce my mental state and pigeon-hole my politics from a couple of words typed on an adult message board.

Maybe, instead of making any sense, you can just pat yourself on the back for being so awesome and that will make all of the nasty angry conservatives go away.



Ya, that will work.



(Adding laughing smilies to my post proves that I am not angry and therefore must be a liberal just like you).

Yay team!



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baddog

I think it can be summed up as, ignorance is bliss.

ilnjscb

dyna mo

finally, a science research I can fully agree on

EonBlue

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Vendzilla

This makes sense

Conservatives think this is the greatest country on the planet, just the way it is.

Liberals want to change that and that pisses off the conservatives!

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think about that

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dyna mo

you forgot one

SuckOnThis

aka123

So, what you guys do if you don't agree with your current party anymore? Or is this some kind of life time membership with monthly rebilling?

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epitome

Did anyone actually need science to figure that out for them?

epitome

So true.

bronco67

It would make sense they were happier in the mid 2000's. Their good 'ol boy president was running a war that was making them rich, brown people "over there" were getting killed, Wall Street was running amok. If you threw in a button that makes women's health clinics sink into the earth and a special pill that keeps black people from voting, it would have been Utopia.

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Your Kung Foo is not strong, Dynamo. Don't just snipe at me - Argue with me instead. Make your point, and back it up. Don't be lazy. I know you can do better.

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