Tuesday, 14 Feb 2006
I find this…(well I was going to say utterly hilarious, but I won’t go that far…) …intersting.
So I was reading my Personality Psych book, and I came across this:
“…this section compares personality to political orientation. The psychologist Jack Block assessed a group of subjects around the ages of three and fou. Years later, when his subjects were twenty-three yeras old, Block had them complete a questionairre about their political orientation, which included questions about abortion, expenditures for welfare, national health insurance, rights of criminal subjects, and so forth. From their responses he assigned each subject a score along a dimension from “liberal” to “conservative” and found a remarkable set of personality correlates dating to early childhood. Children who grew into political conservatives, by Block’s definition, were likely to have been described at age three or four as easily victimized, easily offended, indecisive, vacillating, fearful, anxious, rigid, and inhibited. Those who grew into liberals, by contrast, were more likely to have been described as developing close relationships, self-reliant, energetic, and dominant. Block so far has refrained from interpreting these correlations, calling them only ‘food for thought regarding the underpinnings of political values’” (Block 1993).
Just some “food for thought”.
PEACE
March 21st, 2006 at 11:26 am
Interesting. Would you be able to tell me where I could find a copy of that report?
Thank you.
March 21st, 2006 at 8:22 pm
It is in Personality Puzzle by Funder