Orang Konservatif Lebih Bahagia Daripada Liberal

Sebabnya: Karena orang konservatif lebih lebih bisa melakukan rasionalisasi (pembenaran) ketika melihat segala ketidakadilan ekonomi dan sosial-politik yang terjadi di sekitarnya, sementara orang-orang liberal cenderung jadi frustrasi melihat semua itu.

Begitu juga dengan emansipasi dan pernikahan: Wanita yang pandangannya masih konservatif mengenai gender juga ditemukan lebih bahagia dalam pernikahan dibanding wanita yang egalitarian dan melek emansipasi.

Jadi, ignorance is really a bliss…?

clipped from www.livescience.com Individuals with conservative ideologies are happier than liberal-leaners, and new research pinpoints the reason: Conservatives rationalize social and economic inequalities. Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found. Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a person’s tendency to justify, or explain away, inequalities. If your beliefs don’t justify gaps in status, you could be left frustrated and disheartened, according to the researchers, Jaime Napier and John Jost of New York University. The same rationalizing phenomena could apply to personal situations as well. “Research suggests that highly egalitarian women are less happy in their marriages compared with their more traditional counterparts, apparently because they are more troubled by disparities in domestic labor.”