{"id":6825,"date":"2012-07-09T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=6825"},"modified":"2012-07-08T08:47:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T12:47:09","slug":"and-the-award-for-self-fulfilling-prophecy-of-the-year-goes-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/6825","title":{"rendered":"And the Award for Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of the Year Goes to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Who is happier about life \u2014 liberals or conservatives? The answer might seem straightforward. After all, there is an entire academic literature in the social sciences dedicated to showing conservatives as naturally authoritarian, dogmatic, intolerant of ambiguity, fearful of threat and loss, low in self-esteem and uncomfortable with complex modes of thinking. And it was the candidate Barack Obama in 2008 who infamously labeled blue-collar voters &#8220;bitter,&#8221; as they &#8220;cling to guns or religion.&#8221; Obviously, liberals must be happier, right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Wrong. 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.<\/p>\n<p>From an American Enterprise Institute\u00a0<a title=\"Why Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/08\/opinion\/sunday\/conservatives-are-happier-and-extremists-are-happiest-of-all.html\" target=\"_blank\">op-ed<\/a>\u00a0in Sunday&#8217;s\u00a0<em>New York Times\u00a0<\/em>titled &#8220;Why Conservatives Are Happier than Liberals&#8221; &#8212; and which is surely going to make conservatives happier and liberals less so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is happier about life \u2014 liberals or conservatives? The answer might seem straightforward. After all, there is an entire academic literature in the social&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/6825\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And the Award for Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of the Year Goes to&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-1M5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6825"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6836,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825\/revisions\/6836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}