People with lower emotional intelligence are more likely to hold right-wing views, study finds

[JusticeHammer]

Your reply proves that you are a nasty, dumb monkey.

The monkeys are the idiots on the left. Monkey.

 

[JusticeHammer]

Then why do 95% of all the people here showing low emotional intelligence all lean Hard Left then? Hmm?

Because emotional intelligence is code for liar

 

[Orangecat]

People with lower emotional intelligence are more likely to hold right-wing views, study finds​

People who are easily manipulated by their emotional instability are more likely to hold left-wing views.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

STFU retard. Right wingers have you idiots on the left out classed a hundred to one.

Thanks for making the point. Right wingers are severely underweight when it comes to any form of intelligence.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Thanks for making the point. Right wingers are severely underweight when it comes to any form of intelligence.

Liberals are much more emotional.

 

[Orangecat]

Thanks for making the point. Right wingers are severely underweight when it comes to any form of intelligence.

By that measure, you're a stick-figure.

 

[Who_Me?]

Bingo

 

[iamwhatiseem]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

... is a personality trait that describes the tendency to submit to political authority and be hostile towards other groups, while social dominance orientation is a measure of a person’s preference for inequality among social groups.
That perfectly describes modern progressives and virtue signalers to the core. And they say THIS describes right wingers??? - HAHAHAHAHA

 

[Who_Me?]

Typical lefty lies. Liberals are nothing more than commie whores.

Yep, the study is true

 

[JusticeHammer]

Thanks for making the point. Right wingers are severely underweight when it comes to any form of intelligence.

Bullshit. Left-wingers are retards. Retard.

 

[Who_Me?]

Bullshit. Left-wingers are retards. Retard.

No emotion there. No intelligence either.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

I'm shocked. SHOCKED, I tell ya!

People with lower emotional intelligence are more likely to hold right-wing views, study finds​

New research from Belgium provides evidence that deficits in emotion understanding and emotion management are related to right-wing and prejudiced attitudes. The study has been published in the journal Emotion.

“I have a lifelong interest in political psychology and in political ideology in particular. The observation that left-wing and right-wing adherents tend to differ on so many psychological characteristics is amazing,” said study author Alain Van Hiel, a professor at the University of Ghent.

“Many scholars have investigated the cognitive basis of ideology in general, and right-wing ideological attitudes in particular. In the present study, we wanted to investigate if a similar relationship would exist for emotional abilities.”

In two studies, the researchers assessed the emotional abilities and political ideology of 983 Belgian undergraduate students. The second study also examined the participants’ cognitive ability. Emotional ability was measured with three tests: the Situational Test of Emotional Understanding, the Situational Test of Emotion Management, and the Geneva Emotion Recognition Test.

The researchers found that individuals with weaker emotional abilities — particularly emotional understanding and management — tended to score higher on a measure of right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation.

Right-wing authoritarianism is a personality trait that describes the tendency to submit to political authority and be hostile towards other groups, while social dominance orientation is a measure of a person’s preference for inequality among social groups.

“The results of this study were univocal. People who endorse authority and strong leaders and who do not mind inequality — the two basic dimensions underlying right-wing political ideology — show lower levels of emotional abilities,” Van Hiel told PsyPost.

Those with lower emotional and cognitive abilities were also more likely to agree with blatantly prejudiced statements such as “The White race is superior to all other races.”

The researchers controlled for age, sex, and education level. But like all research, the study includes some limitations. The study only collected correlational data, preventing inferences of causality from being made.

*snip*

The study, “The Relationship Between Emotional Abilities and Right-Wing and Prejudiced Attitudes“, was authored by Alain Van Hiel, Jonas De keersmaecker, Emma Onraet, Tessa Haesevoets, Arne Roets, and Johnny R. J. Fontaine.

"Emotional Intelligence" is a fancy word for "snow flake". I'll take this as a compliment...lol

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

Thanks for making the point. Right wingers are severely underweight when it comes to any form of intelligence.

Leftists think Communism is a good idea, so no, Conservatives aren't underweight when it comes to intelligence.

 

[Burgermeister]

Because their policies always fail in real life, they need to create these silly studies so they and the rest of the useful idiots don't feel so stupid.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Leftists think Communism is a good idea, so no, Conservatives aren't underweight when it comes to intelligence.

Cons think you can catch Gay !! And they voted for trump. How fucking stupid do they have to be ?

 

[TeeDub]

Cons think you can catch Gay !! And they voted for trump. How fucking stupid do they have to be ?

Iranians catch Gay all the time! But they don't hold them long, like you Tommy Taint! They just let them go, off of tall buildings.

 

[j-mac]

I'm shocked. SHOCKED, I tell ya!

People with lower emotional intelligence are more likely to hold right-wing views, study finds​

New research from Belgium provides evidence that deficits in emotion understanding and emotion management are related to right-wing and prejudiced attitudes. The study has been published in the journal Emotion.

“I have a lifelong interest in political psychology and in political ideology in particular. The observation that left-wing and right-wing adherents tend to differ on so many psychological characteristics is amazing,” said study author Alain Van Hiel, a professor at the University of Ghent.

“Many scholars have investigated the cognitive basis of ideology in general, and right-wing ideological attitudes in particular. In the present study, we wanted to investigate if a similar relationship would exist for emotional abilities.”

In two studies, the researchers assessed the emotional abilities and political ideology of 983 Belgian undergraduate students. The second study also examined the participants’ cognitive ability. Emotional ability was measured with three tests: the Situational Test of Emotional Understanding, the Situational Test of Emotion Management, and the Geneva Emotion Recognition Test.

The researchers found that individuals with weaker emotional abilities — particularly emotional understanding and management — tended to score higher on a measure of right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation.

Right-wing authoritarianism is a personality trait that describes the tendency to submit to political authority and be hostile towards other groups, while social dominance orientation is a measure of a person’s preference for inequality among social groups.

“The results of this study were univocal. People who endorse authority and strong leaders and who do not mind inequality — the two basic dimensions underlying right-wing political ideology — show lower levels of emotional abilities,” Van Hiel told PsyPost.

Those with lower emotional and cognitive abilities were also more likely to agree with blatantly prejudiced statements such as “The White race is superior to all other races.”

The researchers controlled for age, sex, and education level. But like all research, the study includes some limitations. The study only collected correlational data, preventing inferences of causality from being made.

*snip*

The study, “The Relationship Between Emotional Abilities and Right-Wing and Prejudiced Attitudes“, was authored by Alain Van Hiel, Jonas De keersmaecker, Emma Onraet, Tessa Haesevoets, Arne Roets, and Johnny R. J. Fontaine.

More nonsense from the far left progressives at Raw Story....What a bunch of bullshit...

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Thanks for making the point. Right wingers are severely underweight when it comes to any form of intelligence.

Actually, people with emotional intellegence do not indulge in such childish oversimplification as this.

 

[sartre play]

Just plain foolish, What political party's propaganda you Chose to buy into is no measure of intelligence.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Just plain foolish, What political party's propaganda you Chose to buy into is no measure of intelligence.

In fact, the more a person buys into the partisan propaganda, the less they display any emotional intelligence.

Those who would actually posit that their adherence to partisan dogma makes them somehow superior are simply grasping at anything they can to assuage their feelings of insecurity.