User:Viriditas/Psychology of libertarians

Studies show that libertarians experience morality differently than other people. While narrowly valuing individual liberty above all other types of morals, libertarians often identify as rational and unemotional and react to certain issues with less moral concern.^[1] A 2012 study of libertarian morality found that they were less empathic than both liberals and conservatives.^[2] For example, violence and suffering concerns liberals and conservatives more than it does libertarians.^[3] Libertarians also report less of a moral identification with their communities than other members. Because libertarians score low on empathy but high on systemizing tests, some researchers speculate that they have a "greater susceptibility to autism".^[4]

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^ Ditto, Peter C., and Spassena P. Koleva (2011). Moral Empathy Gaps and the American Culture War. Emotion Review, 3 (3): 331-332. doi:10.1177/1754073911402393
^ Fallon, James (2013). The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain. ISBN 1101603925.
^ Haidt, Jonathan (2012). The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. Pantheon. p. 182. ISBN 0307377903.
^ "There are upsides to such a coolly analytic cognitive style. For instance, libertarians are better at logic problems, says Mr. Iyer, a research scientist at the University of Southern California and the lead author of this study. The downsides include a “greater susceptibility to autism,” he says. “Any ideology or philosophy, taken to an extreme, likely resembles some pathology or another,” Mr. Iyer explains." See: Smith, Emily Esfahani (October 16, 2012). All about libertarians: Group’s mystique increases as profile is raised. The Washington Times. Retrieved November 13, 2014.

Further reading[edit]

Iyer, Ravi; Koleva, Spassena; Graham, Jesse; Ditto, Peter; Haidt, Jonathan (2012). Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians. PLOS ONE, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0042366
Mehrabian, Albert (1996). Relations Among Political Attitudes, Personality, and Psychopathology Assessed With New Measures of Libertarianism and Conservatism. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 18 (4): 469-491. doi:10.1207/s15324834basp1804_7
Tetlock PE, Kristel OV, Elson SB, Green MC, Lerner JS (2000) The psychology of the unthinkable: Taboo trade-offs, forbidden base rates, and heretical counterfactuals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78 (5):853–870. doi:10.1037//0022-3514.78.5.853

[1] Ditto, Peter C., and Spassena P. Koleva (2011). Moral Empathy Gaps and the American Culture War. Emotion Review, 3 (3): 331-332. doi:10.1177/1754073911402393

[2] Fallon, James (2013). The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain. ISBN 1101603925.

[3] Haidt, Jonathan (2012). The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. Pantheon. p. 182. ISBN 0307377903.

[4] "There are upsides to such a coolly analytic cognitive style. For instance, libertarians are better at logic problems, says Mr. Iyer, a research scientist at the University of Southern California and the lead author of this study. The downsides include a “greater susceptibility to autism,” he says. “Any ideology or philosophy, taken to an extreme, likely resembles some pathology or another,” Mr. Iyer explains." See: Smith, Emily Esfahani (October 16, 2012). All about libertarians: Group’s mystique increases as profile is raised. The Washington Times. Retrieved November 13, 2014.

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